[Sugar-devel] Nobody understands "Keep"

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Martin Dengler<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That's not far from the truth, right?  At least in any work-losing or
> surprising way...

http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ActivityView

Keep button
    Click the Keep button to force an Activity to save its current
state in the Journal.

Stop button
    Use the Stop button or press ctrl + esc to save the Activity in
the Journal and close it.

> In case anyone lacks context, here's what the HIG says about "keep":
> it's saving a copy/backup file:
>
> "activities can ... specify "keep-hints" which prompt the system to
> keep a copy. ... a child may choose to invoke a keep-hint by
> selecting the "keep in journal" button ..."
>  -- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Human_Interface_Guidelines#The_Notion_of_.22Keeping.22
>
> Are there any other discussions like "activity versioning" and "datastore
> versioning" that are relevant that people could share for context?
>
>> 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.
>
> Good idea.
>
>> Daniel
>
> Martin
>
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