I attach a patch to fix Journal sort by creation date. It sets ctime=now when a Journal entry is created. Index: sugar-toolkit-0.88.1/src/sugar/datastore/datastore.py =================================================================== --- sugar-toolkit-0.88.1.orig/src/sugar/datastore/datastore.py +++ sugar-toolkit-0.88.1/src/sugar/datastore/datastore.py @@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ def create(): metadata = DSMetadata() metadata['mtime'] = datetime.now().isoformat() metadata['timestamp'] = int(time.time()) + if not metadata.get('ctime'): + metadata['ctime'] = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", time.localtime()) return DSObject(object_id=None, metadata=metadata, file_path=None) cheers, Esteban. <div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/13 Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:40 -0200, Esteban Bordon wrote: > Hi all. > > I was making a patch for Journal sort by creation date for Dextrose > and I found 2 datastore.py in the OS. > > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/datastore.py and > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/carquinyol/datastore.py > </div>> One of those belong to sugar-toolkit and the other one belong to <div class="im">> sugar-datastore. The second includes a patch for this issue but it > doesn't shows correctly in Journal. > > must I to change sugar-toolkit? </div>The datastore.py in sugar-toolkit is used by activities to interface with the Journal (wrapping its dbus protocol). The datastore.py in carquinyol is the actual datastore. Adding Sascha and Andres on cc, in case they want to add something. -- // Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://codewiz.org/</a> \X/ Sugar Labs - <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/</a> </blockquote></div>