[IAEP] Concrete feedback

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Am 16.06.2011 22:22, schrieb 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.

Oh, right, I had forgotten that.

Yet I still think there is a use-case for something between "one" and
"all" selection. It's definitely not as high-priority but something
worth thinking about IMHO.

>>> 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

Oh my God, I see too many potential OLPC News headlines in front of me
right now... ;-D

Christoph

> -walter
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>>> regards.
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>>> {...}
>>>>>
>>>>> Paolo Benini
>>>>> Montevideo
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>> Christoph Derndorfer
>> co-editor, www.olpcnews.com
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Christoph Derndorfer
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e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com