On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 09:25, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Anish Mangal <an...@activitycentral.com> > wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 19:56, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote: >>> On 03/01/12 20:04, Walter Bender wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> I had the following proposal: in the activity toolbar you can evoke the >>> description field [1]. The toolbar could expand on key press to make it >>> available more quick. >>> >>> General Note: I think in any case if we go down that road it should be part >>> of the base activity toolbar and available in every activity. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Simon >>> >>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Description.png >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> Are we also thinking of providing the capability to add tags to >> journal entries using this mechanism? >> >> Also, [1] looks like a bit of a hack (Having a text entry field in the >> palette of a popped-up toolbar icon). I cannot think of another place >> in sugar where this approach is extensively used (which I presume is >> going to be the case here)? >> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Description.png >> >> -- >> Anish > > Haven't had a chance to write up the notes from today's meeting, but > the log is available here [1]. The idea has morphed somewhat. But no > plans for a tag mechanism for 0.96. >
Thanks for the link. > -walter > > > [1] > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Write_to_journal_anytime#Log_from_Design_Team_Meeting_08_January_2012 > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel