[IAEP] Concrete feedback

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Am 16.06.2011 21:52, schrieb Walter Bender:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, <nanonano at mediagala.com> wrote:
>>>> {...}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Concrete Feedback:
>>>>
>>>> The journal is always full of garbage, hundreds of empty entries:  is
>>>> there a possibility to "CLEAN" the JOurnal?,
>>> From the Journal item's detail view there is an 'Erase' (minus sign) button
>>> in the toolbar.  Clicking this button will clean out that Journal entry.
>> I took Paolo's request to mean something slightly different: is there
>> a way to do a bulk cleaning of the Journal, perhaps automated?
> That's also how I understood it (especially based on his prior comment
> on another thread).
>
>> tch is close to having finished a multi-selection enhancement for the
>> Journal that makes bulk delete much much easier. But it may be worth
>> exploring some function to remove "empty" journal entries
>> automatically.
> Or general a sort of "select all". Because if I understand tch's current
> design correctly then it requires the user to click and select each
> Journal entry, right? Something like Shift + Select like on traditional
> systems might be a good addition here.

In his implementation, you can select all that match a query. No need
to click each entry individually.

>> I am still a bit puzzled by the Journal spam issue, however, since I
>> don't see much if any spam since moving to the
>> open-most-recent-by-default home view. I'd love of an explanation as
>> to where the spam is coming from.
> When was the open-most-recent change implemented? After Sugar 0.82,
> right? Since Plan Ceibal is only in the progress of upgrading machines
> from 0.82 to 0.88 this could explain why Paolo is still seeing these
> issues on an ongoing basis.

>From what Bert suggests, maybe we should be working on getting WINE to
work in the newer Sugar builds rather than worrying about these
Journal details. :P

-walter

>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>>>> {...}
>>>>
>>>> Paolo Benini
>>>> Montevideo
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