[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] 'Resume' vs 'Start a new' Activity

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/08/2010 12:54 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 17:19, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu>  wrote:
>> Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>> When they resume a previous activity, and they wanted to start a new
>>> one, I have seen learners erasing the previous content and keep on
>>> working in that activity.
>>
>> This is the purpose of resume-by-default. The idea arose in response to
>> feedback from Uruguay, where students routinely filled their disk.  The
>> situation became so severe that, infamously, children in Uruguay began to
>> memorize the shell commands required to erase the Journal by force.
>
> When at Uruguay, I was told that even after deleting the journal the
> disk was full and they had to reflash. I guess this is because of temp
> file leaks that have been fixed in later releases.

Interesting feedback.

> Also, resume-by-default would help with user-generated content, but
> the biggest files on the journal will be downloads (except videos
> taken in Record).
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu

At the moment most of the activities do not generate big content as we 
don't have activities that deal with media content (audio, video and 
friends). Though, the concept we should get right already ;p

Regards,
    Simon