If we go with the 'Please enter a title for this activity' alert, would it be possible to add a simple one-click way to say 'Don't keep'?
This might help with the Journal pollution issue. -Wade On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Wade Brainerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I'm happy to co-maintain. Eduardo, were you planning to integrate >> > more stuff from Memphis into Log Viewer? I don't want to interfere >> > with that work of course. >> >> I don't think so. Most of the memphis stuff should be in Analyze >> rather than in the log viewer. >> >> >> > Off topic- 'Log Viewer Activity' does not fit in the activity >> > toolbar's title entry. I have seen this problem with other activities >> > as well. Can we consider expanding the default size of this entry, or >> > else dropping the word 'Activity' from the default titles? >> >> Eben, can/should we drop "Activity" from the toolbar? Double word >> activity will be pretty common I think, since a verb is often not >> enough to describe it properly. > > Three points. =) > > 1. There is currently no reason for the arbitrarily short entry field. > We can (should) definitely expand it. > 2. We really should *not* be appending "activity" to the title at all. > In fact, that seems to be the wrong message. If anything, we would > want to append something like "instance" instead. But, that aside, > what I really want is .info support for suggested (and translated) > default titles! I've brought this up before, and again recently in > the ML. Perhaps homunq can add support for this and activity tags > when he plays with the bundle spec? > 3. We need to revisit the possibility of abandoning the activity > toolbar itself, in favor of a non-modal (or modal?) title request > alert and a host of features (keep, share, name, tag, etc) within the > palette for the activity in the Frame instead. We could probably do > this along with the new design if we decide it's the right thing to > do. I think we need the alert even if we don't drop the toolbar. > > - Eben > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
