[Dextrose] [DESIGN] Journal space warnings

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Martin Abente
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that I have a working messages notification extension to sugar's current
> notification system. I can follow the suggestions mentioned on trac [1].
>
> One possible Idea:
>
> 1. Lets simply define a _PREEMPTIVE_SPACE_TRESHOLD (refering to
> jarabe.journal.journalactivity)
>
> where PREEMPTIVE_SPACE_TRESHOLD =  _SPACE_TRESHOLD*1.5 . This is just an
> example, just replace it with your favourite formula.
>
> 2. When this PREEMPTIVE_SPACE_TRESHOLD is reached we can simply add a
> message notification on every startup.
>
> * Notification Icon appears [2].
> * User reads the content [3].
> * User can access information about the issue on the wiki [4].
>
> 3. If the user still don't remove unnecessary entries then it will reach
> SPACE_TRESHOLD and the ModalAlert() will show up. We could also follow the
> suggestions on [1] suppressing the modal window when the journal is active,
> until enough space is available again.
>
> Suggestions or Ideas?

Might be worth putting [4] directly on the laptop. There maybe some
other alerts also worth including. Maybe we could get icon versions of
the instructions like our infamous UPC icons :)

-walter

>
> References:
> 1. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/630
> 2. http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tch/images/Screenshot-32.png
> 3. http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tch/images/Screenshot-33.png
> 4. http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tch/images/Screenshot-34.png
>
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