On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt <christianm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Walter--yes, I have time to discuss this on the weekend (Sunday?). Let me > know if we can use our original timeslot at 10am ET.
Works for me :) -walter > > Christian > ________________________________ > From: Walter Bender > Sent: 1/3/2012 11:04 AM > To: Walter Bender; Sugar-dev Devel > Cc: Gonzalo Odiard; manuel quiƱones; Simon Schampijer; Gary C Martin; > Christian Marc Schmidt > Subject: [DESIGN] Write to Journal Anytime > > Gary, Christian, et al., > > We are hopefully going to land some variant of the "Write to Journal > Anytime" patch in Sugar 0.96 [1]. I'd like to discuss the details before > jumping back into the code. The current plan of record is essentially to > make a modal display of the Journal expanded entry (detail view) available > on demand from a button on the activity toolbar (grabbing space freed up by > the elimination of the Keep button). This is essentially what I mocked up > about two years ago. > > While we may have had Design Team consensus on this plan in January 2011, I > remain skeptical. The problems I see with this approach are: (1) the user > cannot see their current work while the model window is displayed -- since > presumably the goal is to write about what you are working on, this seems > problematic; (2) most of the fields in the detail view are irrelevant to the > task of taking notes; (3) some of the fields, e.g., title, already have > mechanisms for change; (4) many of the fields are not human-editable, e.g., > preview image, collabarators.... > > For these reasons and my general dislike of modal interfaces, I suggest a > simple alternative: a text entry in the toolbar that lets you add notes to > the description field directly from the toolbar. Simon (?) mocked this up a > few years back and I think it meets the needs of the run-time access to note > taking. Editing the notes can be done from the Journal expanded entry, which > could be invoked from the currently unused Bulletin Board key (or, > naturally, from the Journal itself). > > Would you have time to discuss this in more detail anytime in the coming > week or two? > > regards. > > -walter > > [1] http://wiki.sugar labs.org/go/Features/Talk:Write_to_journal_anytime > [2] see numerous links from ^^ > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel