[Dextrose] Need documentation written.

[Gary Martin]

Hi Bernie,

On 27 Sep 2010, at 17:29, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> On 09/27/10 17:01, Steven Parrish wrote:
>> Please see
>> 
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2371
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2372
>> 
>> Need someone to take on these very simple tasks.  Coding is not
>> required for this, however familiarity with how the activities work
>> would be a plus.  This would be a good task for someone who wants to
>> learn the functionality and codebase involved.
> 
> We could create 4 subpages of Dextrose with the screenshots of the
> Backup and Restore functions:
> 
> * Backup to USB
> * Backup to XS
> * Restore from USB
> * Restore from XS

Just to confuse you, Sascha has also written Backup and Restore activities (I'm tinkering with some updated icons for him) - you can find them on ASL. They are intended to work back to 0.82. I've only vaguely played with the activities so far, but the need some UI work to be more friendly/obvious. Just now they are pretty much a blank screen with a widget in the tool bar.

--Gary

P.S. Sorry Sascha, have no idea if I am cc'ing you in the way you prefer, relying on address autocomplete.

> In order to do the backup/restore to the schoolserver, one needs to be
> registered. If nobody has a schoolserver handy, I could take the
> screenshots tonight and upload them to the wiki.
> 
> 
> On a side note, I think there shouldn't be a need for external
> documentation in the wiki. If some functionality isn't already
> discoverable and easy to use, we should work harder to improve the UI.
> 
> I think Tincho actually did a very good job with the Backup/Restore UI.
> The most non-obvious part of the entire procedure is registering to the
> schoolserver. There's a patch by dsd to make the registration happen
> automatically in the background, but it's written for Sugar 0.82 and
> needs some reworking.
> 
> Other areas of minor UI improvement would be a better progress bar
> showing *real* progress (currently it moves all the time even when the
> network is down, thus misleading users). Perhaps we could also improve
> the graphics at the top to better convey the data flow between the
> journal and the particular backup device.
> 
> Note that I'm not opposed to documentation: even when it's superfluous,
> it serves to showcase new features in Dextrose. I just think that
> documentation shouldn't become a workaround a sub-otimal UI.
> 
> -- 
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
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