[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

[Daniel Drake]

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 22:16 +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While preparing new 0.88 features, I encountered some in consistence in
> "activities vs. activity bundles" case, so I'm going to reveal
> "Activity as regular objects"(see [1] ml thread) feature but make it
> less invasive in case existed user experience.
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Activity_as_a_regular_Journal_Object

I feel that this is quite a fundamental change to the Journal
philosophy. Until now, the Journal is something that record what the
user has done, and it only stores the work (or history) of the users
session within the activities. In tune with this, the Journal is empty
when you start for the same time. This would no longer be the case with
this feature.

I think this topic needs larger forward-thinking discussion. Personally,
I prefer the concept of the Journal for what it is now.

> The major reason for this feature is eliminating confusion when:
> 
>     * theres are activities(in Home view) and activity bundles(in Journal)
>     * user can remove bundle from Journal and activity will be preserved(and vise versa)
>     * activities could not have bundles in journal(were deleted or its a system wide activity), so user can't copy activity(e.g. to share it via USB stick) using regular shell workflow(Journal) and should be aware of stuff like Terminal 

I guess it depends on the UI, but I worry this would actually add
confusion. Users would be prone to accidentally deleting the activity
installation from their Journal when they think they are just deleting
some work they have done in that activity.

Daniel