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

[Martin Abente]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>wrote:

> Hi Samuel.
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> Please find the replies inline.
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org>wrote:
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>> I see in the final screenshots that all of the selected items are
>> deselected.
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>> Is this automatic, or does the user have to choose the "deselect all"
>> button to do this?
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> This is automatic (on the fly).
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>> 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.
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> Well, the code is generic enough, and the above may be accomplished if
> there is a general consensus.
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> However, the current flow (automatic de-selection), "helps" user to "not
> deselect" "explicitly", in the general case.
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> I believe that copy-then-erase is a more of a special case, than a general
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> 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.
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The original behaviour was to remain these entries selected after
operations, exactly by the same reason samuel points out. In terms of cost,
as user time, it is a lot more expensive to re-select all those entries
(not necessary all) than simply hit the deselect-all button. I would vote
for letting these entries selected.




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>> 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.
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> The workflow is ::
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> Operate on entry "x".
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> Deselect the entry "x".
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> Goto step (i)
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> Also, it's good if Sugar tries to be different, as long as it does the
> right thing :P
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> Regards,
> Ajay
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>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> 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:
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>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection_screenshots
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>>> 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.
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>>> Should you have any design related questions about this, feel free to
>>> reply to this thread.
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>>> Cheers,
>>> Anish
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