[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Etoys 4.1

[Frederick Grose]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:07 PM, <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:

> Sugar's autosave can be a problem in other Activities too.
> Create a program in Pippy, then look at one of the examples. All your work
> will be overwritten. There is nothing you can do to prevent this, not even a
> panic powerdown.


In an activity like this, having the capability for multiple, independent
views would be helpful.  See this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg15306.html


> I have viewed a favourite holiday photo in Browse, then used that Browse
> session to surf the net, overwriting that photo


This sounds like a bug.  But having tabs available would have probably
avoided the loss.

       --Fred


> (can't replicate that now OS373pyg).


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