[Sugar-devel] Nobody understands "Keep"

[Daniel Drake]

Hi,

Nobody in the world seems to understand the Keep button. People think
it's for regular saving and you should do it before you close or switch
away from your activity.

Even with all the expertise on-site they seem to have been advising the
(incorrect) use of the Keep button here:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-July/007038.html
and then they wondered why they had 2 copies in the Journal.

I have seen misuse of this button by the country teams in Ethiopia and
Paraguay, in both cases they were giving teacher training and teaching
the teachers the wrong thing...

Perhaps it's time for a rethink/redesign.

This functionality could be moved to the journal itself, in a place
where it can be presented with more context, something like "Create
duplicate copy." Or even some kind of visual feedback (to appear after
clicking Keep) that makes it pretty obvious that you've just forked your
work - that way you'd quickly learn the true functionality and know when
and when not to use it.

Daniel