[Sugar-devel] [PROPOSAL] Inform the user when an activity is being installed and more

[S. Daniel Francis]

2013/1/12 Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez <aguz at sugarlabs.org>:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Now, if we download or copy a .xo to the journal, it is installed
> automatically and doesn't informs to the user that the activity is being
> installed.
> We could show an alert with a countdown to tell the user that one activity
> will be installed and give the option to cancel this installation. That
> alert can appear on the journal (when we copy a .xo from a external device)
> and in Browse when we are downloading one (instead of the alert which
> appears when the file is fully downloaded).

I would expand your proposal to all Journal file manipulation
processes. Not only when it installs an activity, also when it's
copying files to an external device, etc.