[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove the keep button from the default activity toolbar

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On 23 April 2010 15:02, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>> I like the proposal of renaming Keep to Copy and placing it in the palette
>> of the Stop button. I was a bit worried about it getting confused with the
>> clipboard action of the same name, but making it a secondary action of the
>> Stop button should help with that.
>
> This sounds odd.
> To make a copy of my work I have to go to the Stop menu?
>
>
> I've never seen Keep used in the field -- I've only seen misuse.
> Does anyone have any experience-backed counter opinions?

Well, I added a keep button in Turtle Art to the default menu because
kids would throw away their projects to start new ones and lose all of
their work. (This was in part because the stop button was hard to find
in pre-0.86 and it was easier to resume an old project than to start a
new one, which only will change for 0.90). Ideally, we'd have
versioning and could get rid of keep as a concept altogether...

>
> I still think removing the button altogether will be a big improvement
> until the more advanced Journal solutions are actually implemented,
> even though technically you could say it would cause a functionality
> regression.
>
> If someone really does want to do a bit of hacking on this, put the
> Copy/Duplicate option in the Journal details view...

To me, this seems to be the proper place to put copy/dup.

> Daniel
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