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

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> 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.

Not important to the use case IMHO.

> I presume the use case is to import/export
> data from the Journal, similar to the view for an external device.

Exactly.

> 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.

Browse is fine for browsing the hierarchy, but that is not the use
case here. Teacher often create files outside of Sugar. Having a
simple way to access those files from within Sugar is the goal. (Every
teacher I have shown this to has been very envious of this feature.)
Also, it will let kids access their OOffice and Tux files.

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

I agree that this is a general issue, but why hold up this patch because of it?

>
> Regards,
>   Simon
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regards.

-walter

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