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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 22:06, Christoph Derndorfer
<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:54, Christoph Derndorfer
>> <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 21:06, Christoph Derndorfer
>> >>> <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.
>
> How much effort would it be to add such an copy-to-USB option to the Journal
> hover palette? Is this something I could do with the help of my knowledgable
> flatmate Mr. Innocenti?

Yep, shouldn't be hard nor a lot of code.

Regards,

Tomeu

>>
>> 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.
>
> This should also be easy to fix I assume, right?
>
>>
>> >>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?)
>>
>> I've personally taken care of making content draggable in Browse,
>> Write and the Journal, though it may have regressed since. Also,
>> most/all text fields should be dnd-enabled and I think Etoys uses it
>> extensively as well.
>
> Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I guess I'll keep my eyes open for dnd stuff
> over the coming days:-)
>
> Christoph
>
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