[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding /home/walter/Documents to volume toolbar

[Simon Schampijer]

On 07/06/2011 10:29 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> From: Walter Bender<walter.bender at gmail.com>
>
> This patch adds $HOME/Documents to the volume toolbar in the Journal view.
> The rationale is to make it easier for people to move files in and out of
> the data store from the file system -- a feature oft requested by teachers.
> It also means that Sugar activities can more readily access files generated
> outside of Sugar -- another feature requested by teachers.
>
> Note that this patch requires the inclusion of a new icon, user-documents,
> that is included in a separate patch.
>
> The current version of this patch reflects feedback from Sascha Silbe (See
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-July/032200.html)

First of all thanks for trying to solve this need. About the approach, I 
am not sure the Journal is a good file browser. The information about 
the hierarchical file system is lost. I presume the use case is to 
import/export data from the Journal, similar to the view for an external 
device. I actually do not like that neither ;p For large file systems 
the current Journal code takes a long time to scan and then one gets a 
view of files where the expected ordering is lost. Not sure how to do 
that better besides including a file browser, though.

I have to think about the general approach of how we show files on non 
Journal devices a bit more.

Regards,
    Simon