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

[Wade Brainerd]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/11/30 Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>:
>> No, but perhaps we could take this opportunity to reduce this problem...
>>
>> When deleting an object from the Journal that is an activity bundle,
>> we ought to display an alert with a scary icon.  The alert should
>> clearly state that Journal entries will no longer be able to be opened
>> until the activity is reinstalled.
>>
>> Really delete Hammer?
>> If the Hammer activity is deleted, all 14 Hammer entries will no
>> longer be usable.
>
> There is already a warning not too dissimilar from this.
> My experience in the field is that children have trouble understanding
> such dialogs and either give random responses, or continue sticking to
> their guns that they are removing their work, not the application code
> itself.

Well, with this proposed feature, they could at least get a friend to
send the activity to them after they realize their mistake :)

Best,
Wade