[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive? FotoToon export?

[tom.staubitz at fhtw-berlin.de]

Hi Gonzalo,
I installed the new version on the XO-1 and the XO-1.5
Copying to usb and reopening from there works pretty good, but it needs to be version 5 on both sides, version 4 is not able to open the version 5 "files".
I guess that is as it is, just wanted to tell you for the record.

Image exporting on the XO-1 does not work too good yet, as you said.
On the XO-1.5 it looks a little better. See screenshots on my blog.

Here are some thoughts I had:

I would prefer if the images could be exported separately as a sequence of images. Maybe zipped, if it needs to be a single file. 
So they could be imported to e.g. ViewSlides, or Etoys, to be part of a larger project. Might also be easier to implement?

Grabbing the globe's handles is pretty tricky. I almost gave up the first time I tried. They should be more responsive(bigger?).

In my opinion the default font size could be a little bigger. I'd also prefer a vertical cursor in the globes.

It would be great if the pics could be reordered. Especially as pics taken with Record all have the same name.

I would expect that a globe gets deselected when I'm clicking on an image, currently it only gets deselected when I'm clicking on a different image.


 
See my blogpost for screenshots: 
http://www.flatlandfarm.de/blog/?p=42

Thanks for your efforts,
Tom




On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:31 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> Tom:
> I am trying fix the Fototoon behavior  with respect to copy in usb and using in other machines.
> If you want try can download http://people.sugarlabs.org/~godiard/Fototoon-5.xo
> You can test save like image (in a palette in the keep button) but is not working well yet.
> 
> Gonzalo
> 
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:02 AM, tom.staubitz at fhtw-berlin.de <tom.staubitz at fhtw-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been trying for while now to copy journal entries to a usb stick.
> This works fine as long as files are concerned, e.g. Pics or Audio recordings taken with Record.
> It does not work if I try to copy an activity from the journal to the usb stick.
> No matter if I'm using the menu in the details view or drag and drop.
> The behavior is always the same: it appears to work, the little copy icon appears etc. but in the end 
> the copied file is not on the stick. I've tried two different sticks, both have been recently formatted. 
> 
> Why would I want to copy an activity to a usb stick?
> Imagine two or more children. Half of them are in country1, the others are in country2.
> They would like to collaborate on an activity, e.g. FotoToon.
> One of the groups starts and adds a picture and some bubbles. Now they want to send their work to the other group so that they can add a picture and a couple of bubbles. This goes back and forth a couple of times. 
> 
> I actually managed somehow to store the FotoToon activity as a zip file. This zip contains the images and a .json file describing the bubbles. Unfortunately FotoToon does not seem to be able to open this zip file.
> 
> More or less the same happens when I attach the activity to an email. If I rename the file to xxx.zip I can open it and there are the images and the json file. I cannot open it with FotoToon. If I do not rename the activity and try to start it it will open Etoys.
> 
> Another problem is how to save the final story into a format that e.g. can be published on a website?
> 
> FotoToon is just one example that the results that have been achieved while working with one activity cannot be used to be edited in another activity. I have the same problem with, amongst others, TamTamJam or Paint.
> Is it really not possible or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:11 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> 
>>>> How much effort would it be to add such an copy-to-USB option to the Journal
>>>> hover palette? Is this something I could do with the help of my knowledgable
>>>> flatmate Mr. Innocenti?
>>> 
>>> Yep, shouldn't be hard nor a lot of code.
>> 
>> 
>> As we're there, we might want to add a progress display for long copy
>> operations. Currently, if you drop a large file on the journal icon, the
>> UI freezes for a long time with no indication of progress, tempting the
>> user to perform a hard reboot (and thus corrupting the datastore :-).
>> 
>> If nobody has time to implement a nice progress bar, at least we could
>> put on the busy cursor (which is animated in our cursor theme, iirc).
>> 
>> The copy could probably be made fully asynchronous, but with no progress
>> indication, there's a potential for users to extract USB sticks before
>> the operation is finished.
>> 
>> -- 
>>  // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>> \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
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