[Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

Gary C Martin gary at garycmartin.com
Sat Jan 17 11:07:18 EST 2009


On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 15:54, Sascha Silbe
> <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>
>>> Issues: We do not have a don't save those changes option. If you  
>>> resume by
>>> default you could overwrite something you needed. So we loose the  
>>> undo
>>> functionality.
>>
>> That sounds _REALLY_ bad. I remember looking at some versioning  
>> proposal,
>> what happened to that one?
>
> Well, clicking on the activity icon in the favorites view will now
> resume the last activity entry in exactly the same way as if the user
> clicked on its icon in the journal.
>
> It's true that we would like to store all the intermediate versions
> and allow the user to work with each of them, but we haven't gotten to
> implement it in something that can be released.
>
> So the change here is that we have given more prominence to resume
> operations and have moved starting up new activities to a second
> place. But we haven't really changed the mechanics by which activities
> get stored in the journal.
>
> After talking for some time with Simon, we have agreed on requesting
> input from people willing to install the last code and giving it a
> try. We would love to hear about suggestions and are willing to delay
> for a few days the release in case we find that something can be done
> and that we won't be regressing in any way regarding past releases.

FWIW: I'd love to give it a whirl and provide some feedback,  
unfortunately I only have access to Sugar on XO hardware – so I'm out  
of such early test/debug/feedback loop until things land in Joyride  
(or some future equivalent).

--G

> If we find this is not possible given our schedule constraints, we
> will back this change out and revert to the old behaviour.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
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