[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-19

[James Simmons]

Gabriel,

Actually it would be just as easy to copy the files from USB directly
to the Journal and you could use the file name as the Journal entry
title.  All of my Activities read and write to the Journal.  It's
easy.  If I was going to do "Sugar Commander" I could copy code from
these Activities and hack something together.

Aleksey's Library Activity was pretty nice when I tried it.  I don't
think it addressed USB copying at all but it did give you more options
for organizing Journal content.  That's another thing that special
Journal Activities can do.

Ideally such Activities could work with .82 or greater and support
both old and new style toolbars, as my three Activities now do.

James Simmons


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Gabriel Eirea <geirea at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I find the idea of multiple Journal Activities appealing, and I think
>> I could write "Sugar Commander" myself, except that it would only work
>> for copying from the external media into the Journal, not from the
>> Journal to the media.
>
>  I like this thread. This is a consistent demand from teachers in
> Uruguay. Some time ago I created LeerPendrive [0], which allows the
> user to browse the usb drive with a directory structure and copy the
> files to the clipboard. (From the clipboard they can easily copy them
> to the journal.) In spite of being very simple, it has been very used.
> It is a pity that because it is just an activity you can't copy both
> ways. I like the idea of integrating something like this in the sugar
> core so you can do exactly that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gabriel
>
>
> [0] http://drupal.ceibaljam.org/sites/default/files/LeerPendrive-1.xo
>