On 15 Aug 2008, at 15:57, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >>> Why not let accessing of *deferred* Activities be handled by >>> Journal ? >> >> Because it involves an extra step or two that in practice people >> don't >> take. Personally, I would even go to the extreme that the Home View >> should by default open the most recent Journal entry. > > I'll be the first to admit that the current implementation of > Journal is cumbersome. But if it is possible to add palette entries > to Activity icons on Home view (for resuming something), it ought to > be possible to add similar "short cuts" on the Journal screen. > > I can get to the Home view by pressing the 'Home view' key on the > keyboard. I can get to Journal by pressing the 'Journal' key on the > keyboard. For me, going to the Journal takes no more steps than > going to Home View. [And since Home view provides alternate ways of > presenting its information, why oughtn't Journal provide alternate > ways of presenting *its* information (including a clickable "short > cut" listing of the most recently saved Activities) ?] > > I was speaking from the point of view of *defining* the purpose of > the Home view. If 'resume' is there, should 'erase' be there also > -- what if the user mis-positions his click ? > > -------- > > I'm a procedure-oriented person, not an object-oriented person. So > it has taken me effort to mentally construct a role for the Journal. > If "short cuts" to the most-recent uses of the Activities are > provided elsewhere, why bother having a Journal in the first place ?
OK, how about... Think of an iceberg, where the home view will expose just the tip of recent activity; it's the working set of recent work. The journal then provides a deep, below the waterline, historical view/context for when you need to find that photo/assay/painting from a few days to months back; The journal can have the extra UI details needed to perform these deep search/filtering, and maintenance activities (add tags, description, rename, star, copy to flash mem stick, erase). The home view can then keep a clean UI focus on your recent*** working set. ***with the top frame being the immediate view of 'right now'. --Gary _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
