[Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:01:25AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> > Aleksey was keen to see any Journal mock-up work in progress I had,
> > early as possible, so here's where I'm at :-) There's plenty to do
> > still, images are intended to help bounce ideas about, poke at the
> > grey matter between our ears, and get a feel for how things could (or
> > not) be done:
> >
> >        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Journal#Tollbar_and_palettes
> 
> Very cool. I do agree the filter is very culture-dependent.
> 
> On a similar vein, the 'tag' icon has no visual association with the
> many tags on screen. If they had a similar shape, then it'd be easy to
> connect, for users who don't recognise a "tag" and the (somewhat odd)
> use of "tag" to mean "a bit of metadata on a digital resource".
> 
> Wishlist: "show files by size" filter or option? If the Uruguay
> experience is any indicator, a fact of life is that users after all
> *will* hit:
> 
>  - problems with fitting files (large and small) in USB disks
> 
>  - problems with their Journal taking too much space
> 
>  - problems with installed Activities taking too much disk space

It could be utilized in different list view layout
some of[1] these layout could have column for size and users can sort by
this column.

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:-3.png

-- 
Aleksey