[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 2 Aug 2010, at 06:07, Christoph Derndorfer <
> christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso < <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 21:06, Christoph Derndorfer
>> < <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com>christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Okay, we just discovered that it's apparently just my pendrive (8GB
>> Cruzer)
>> > that's not showing up on the details view's copy-button palette.
>> >
>> > One way or another I think it would make sense to also offer such a copy
>> > option on the Journal list view itself as else copying multiple files
>> from
>> > the Journal to a pendrive would be royal pain.
>>
>> I actually thought we had such an entry in that palette.
>>
>
> Yeah, that's what I had thought as well but since it's neither on my XO-1
> (using 321py) nor on my XO-1.5 (build 206) I'm assuming that such a palette
> indeed doesn't exist.
>
>
> Yea just looked at build 767 (Sugar 0.82.1) vs. build 300py (Sugar 0.88.1).
> Both have a Copy menu item in the Journal hover palette, but it is only for
> copying to the clipboard, unlike the details view Copy icon that has a
> secondary menu function (when a USB device is inserted) for copying to the
> USB. Interestingly 0.88.1 is not showing the nice USB icon in the details
> Copy menu that you get in 0.82.1 (there's just a blank space where the
> little USB icon would be).
>

Yeah, I've also noticed that this icon seems to have gone MIA at some point.


> I must admit the details view Copy to USB feature always seemed rather well
> hidden/unexpected to me. I've always just gone for the drag'n'drop from the
> main Journal view, though likely due to my long term Mac exposure.
>

Interesting, to me it's the other way 'round because in Sugar I generally
expect more options to be hidden in the palettes whereas drag'n'drop is
something that I had never used in Sugar before.

(Out of curiosity: Where else in Sugar is drag'n'drop available?)

Cheers,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer
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