[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Journal Volumes Backup and Restore

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Martin Abente
<mabente at paraguayeduca.org> wrote:
> In case you haven't noticed, we know how it could be better and we know
> how the high level pseudo code would look like. We just can't do it,
> because we have no more time to spend on this.

I understand this -- and I am in a similar quandary.

However, I am bothering you with this because I am a bit worried --
because two things have combined in an unfortunate way:

 - the restore action is destructive

 - it is now in a UI button that is present in the everyday UI

kids are going to try things. They try things all the time; and
they'll try the restore button.

One of the key design concerns in Sugar is that operations should not
be destructive. You can imagine how a "dangerous" button, made so
easily available, can be... well... dangerous.

> Thanks for your comments, hopefully we or someone else will have the time
> to improve it, in the near future.

And that may well be me. I hope at least.




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