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

[Walter Bender]

If the activities are not asked to save when power is running out, then
that is a bug. We should fix it.


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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