[Sugar-devel] [Design] Deleting Activity directory when deleting Activity bundle

[Martin Abente]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:41:29 -0400, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This ticket has some important discussion that was proposed for airing
on
> the mailing list.
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2074
> 
> There are patches under review that would delete learner data, perhaps
> unwittingly.
> 
> An Activity bundle is deleted from the Home list view bundle pallet by
> invoking the 'Erase' menu action.
> 

I have submitted a solution for that scenario already, because it was a
corner case for 2074.

> A 'Confirm erase' alert dialog appears that asks if you want to
permanently
> erase the Activity (bundle). It provides a negative 'Keep' and positive
> 'Erase' button.
> 

This is not necessary anymore. Because now it does not delete the
installed activity anymore.

> For the proposed patch, to prevent the unwitting loss of Activity
profile
> data or other content that may be stored in the Activity directory, an
> option checkbox should be added, such as, (check) erase all associated
> data,
> which could default to yes (checked).
> 

My last patches include your comments :)

> Without this, Learners may unexpectedly delete content that they
downloaded
> at some expense, or be forced to reset profile preferences.
> 
> If there isn't time to implement this data protection feature for the
> upcoming Dextrose release, we should not forget to provide this feature
for
> all future learners (who may not have the same storage and usability
> constraints that prompted this patch).
> 
>         --Fred

I would appreciate if someone could review my patches.

Saludos,
tincho