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</div>I view "resume by default" as a kind of ugly hack ...</blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In fact, "resume by default" has the really awful result that in 0.84<br>
users will naturally tend to overwrite important documents...</blockquote><div><br>In the current world, this is ugly. However, with a versioned datastore - something I think it's not unreasonable to hope for as soon as 0.86 - this would be much less of a problem. Add some smarts in activities to treat "resume, immediately erase over 90% of content" as "create new instance" and you have no more problem here at all.<br>
<br>On the other hand, I would still advocate for "resume by default" in a world of infinite disk space and versioned file system. I suspect it is most frequently the desired behavior. Yes, I realize that this makes the home view just an alternate interface to the journal.<br>
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(Resume by default also includes "alt+tab by default", ...</blockquote><div><br>My proposal includes visual cues to differentiate "alt+tab by default" activities from "resume by default" ones, and the ability to halt the "alt-tab" ones from the home view. Also consider that the "recent" filter would logically pick up all currently-running activities. That would begin to address this issue.<br>
<br>(If we do not support this proposal, this might be a reasonable use for concentric circles in the home view - inner circle would be like ~656 sugar, outer one would be like current sugar.)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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NONETHELESS, I think you make a very important point: the Journal should<br>
really replace the Home View. Logically, the Journal makes perfect sense<br>
at that point in the zoom hierarchy. It would also resolve the weirdness<br>
of the Journal being a single-instance pseudo-activity. The trick, then,<br>
will be to come up with a Journal interface that is suitable for use as<br>
the main launching point. From that perspective, your mockups explore<br>
some very important ideas.</blockquote><div><br>I agree, provided of course that there is a clear and easy way to create new instances from this new journal. However, I still like the ring view/list view choice - a non-text-centric interface is a worthwhile goal IMO. My proposal can just as easily be thought of as an alternate "ring view" for the journal, as as an enhanced home view layout proposal. The only missing piece for a newer-better combined-journal-and-home-view is a good way (or, probably, a few good ways) to create new instances from inside journal list view.<br>
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