[Dextrose] [DESIGN] Journal space warnings

[Martin Abente]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 :)
>
>
+1, guess we just need to be careful deciding which ones to include, to
avoid spam.


> -walter
>
> >
> > References:
> > 1. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/630
> > 2. http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tch/images/Screenshot-32.png<http://people.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/images/Screenshot-32.png>
> > 3. http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tch/images/Screenshot-33.png<http://people.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/images/Screenshot-33.png>
> > 4. http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tch/images/Screenshot-34.png<http://people.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/images/Screenshot-34.png>
> >
> >
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> Walter Bender
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