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

[Frederick Grose]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Sascha Silbe <
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:10:53PM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
>
>  I imagine that with the 'Keep a copy' action option on the proposed,
>> 'Stop' button panel, Sugar Learners might see that phrase, and again,
>> panic about 'saving' their Activity.  An action option labelled 'Copy' may
>> instead suggest that a new instance would be created, rather than suggest
>> that they need to 'keep' their Activity or 'lose' it.
>>
>
> 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.
>
>
>  The proposed 'Copy' icon might be improved by hinting that a new instance
>> of the current Activity is to go (copied) into the Journal, perhaps by
>> placing a new-object star (*) above the arrow pointing to the Journal.
>> (See
>> attached example.)
>>
>
> At least to me this icon isn't intuitive (I wouldn't even suspect what it
> does without reading the text; having read the text, the icon does not make
> the meaning any more clear). Maybe we should use some icon that indicates
> duplication? I can't think of one right now (two Journals wouldn't be right
> because we duplicate an entry, not the entire Journal), but maybe someone
> else has an idea?


Here's another attempt to symbolize the concept in a 'keepcopy' icon
derived from the paste icon, since we are pasting a new copy into the
Journal.

         --Fred
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