[Sugar-devel] Have a discard option in the "name a fresh instance" dialog

[Eduardo H. Silva]

2009/2/18 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
> On 18 Feb 2009, at 20:31, Wade Brainerd wrote:
[snip]
> I'd like to see a 'don't keep' as well, but I think it's a bunch more
> complicated in the current data-store implementation. Activities get Journal
> entries created as you switch away from them, and perhaps some other cases
> (sleep?), so a 'don't keep' button would need to actively DELETE journal
> entries that may have been created before the activity was first stopped.
This is the reason I think the terminology should be erase, or
discard, because it has already been "kept" automatically. But I'm
talking about the frontend of course, I don't know much about the
backend of things.

Eduardo

>
> Just wanted to raise the implementation issues, but I would like a 'don't
> keep' if it didn't burn too much core dev time, though I accept this may be
> due to my particular current Sugar usage pattern.
>
> --Gary
>
>> Best,
>> Wade
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Hi, I managed to run the latest development release of Sucrose.
>> When you close a fresh new activitiy instance, it shows a dialog to
>> name and keep the instance. I think it should also have the option to
>> discard it, which would unclutter the journal with so many unusefull
>> entries. It would use the Erase icon (a white minus inside a black
>> circle), so as not to confuse other ocasions where the cross in black
>> circle is used to escape or cancel an option. The accept icon could
>> perhaps be the Keep icon instead. This way, we are asking the user if
>> he wants to keep or not the instance, and if so, give him the option
>> to name it. What do you think?
>>
>> Eduardo
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