[Sugar-devel] [Design] When to save Activity content

[Frederick Grose]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org
> wrote:

>
>
> El mar, 17 de jun 2014 a las 5:45 AM, Sam Parkinson <
> sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> For GTK activities they only seem to save (please correct me if I'm wrong)
> when you navigate away from the activity.  This is annoying when your XO
> runs out of power and your still working on your assignment :)  Is there
> any reason for this?
>
> Sam
>
> It used to be the case that there was a "keep" button for explicitly
> saving (a copy or I guess revision). however it was removed and yes, it's
> super counter-intuitive to have to change context to save your work.
> Perhaps we should make a bug to track the issue, even though it's about UI
> design?
>  ​
>

​The design intent is described here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal#The_Notion_of_.22Keeping.22

There is a link in that section  where one can see some history on
discussion of the issue.

Activity authors might program in saving rules that serve the purposes of
the Activity, such as, saving on a selected frequency for text editors.
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