[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Multi-Selection and Batch Operations on Journal entries

[Ajay Garg]

Hi Samuel.

Please find the replies inline.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org>wrote:

> I see in the final screenshots that all of the selected items are
> deselected.
>
> Is this automatic, or does the user have to choose the "deselect all"
> button to do this?
>

This is automatic (on the fly).








>
> Personally I would prefer if the checkboxes remain selected in the source
> view (if not an erase operation that removes the item).  That would allow
> the user to do multiple actions (Copy then Erase for a "Move"), and confirm
> after the operation that they selected the items they intended to select.
>

Well, the code is generic enough, and the above may be accomplished if
there is a general consensus.

However, the current flow (automatic de-selection), "helps" user to "not
deselect" "explicitly", in the general case.

I believe that copy-then-erase is a more of a special case, than a general
one.
For eg., copying-from-a-USB-pendrive-to-journal is more probable, than
copying-from-a-USB-pendrive-to-journal-and-then-erasing-the-contents-of-USB-pendrive.







>
> It seems from these screenshots like we are trying to indicate copying
> progress by deselecting items as we copy them, and I do not know of another
> OS that does that.
>

The workflow is ::

(i)
Operate on entry "x".

(ii)
Deselect the entry "x".

(iii)
Goto step (i)


Also, it's good if Sugar tries to be different, as long as it does the
right thing :P




Regards,
Ajay



>
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to propose the long-discussed-finally-implemented ;-)
>> journal entry batch operation and multi selection feature for
>> inclusion in sugar-0.98. All the necessary and relevant details should
>> be present in the associated feature page:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection_screenshots
>>
>> AFAIK, This feature was initially brought up in discussions in EDUJam
>> in 2011 and an initial implementation was made by Martin Abente. The
>> current implementation, done by Ajay, has been derived from that
>> keeping the UI experience largely the same while significantly
>> speeding up operations like select/deselect.
>>
>> Should you have any design related questions about this, feel free to
>> reply to this thread.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Anish
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