[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Name object on Activity exit revisited

[Tony Anderson]

Again, I have not been clear.

The intent in the 'backup restore' option is that Journal objects such 
as Terminal and Log activities would be saved to a log directory on the 
school server
and deleted from the local Journal (and so not appear at all). This 
means the statistical benefits of recording everything would be retained 
(where a school server is available) but the items would not clutter the 
Journal View.

Tony

On 06/02/2016 08:01 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>
> El 02/06/16 a las 12:50, Walter Bender escribió:
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>>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Sebastian Silva 
>> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>>
>>     Not every time you do an activity are you doing work worth
>>     committing. For instance I work with a lot of terminals, that I
>>     reuse and there's no point in committing terminal sessions.
>>
>>     So imho Sugar should not force you to commit if you don't want to.
>>
>>
>> We had long ago talked about letting some activities opt out. 
>> Regardless, adding the commit message back with an opt-out button is 
>> fine with me, but I still don't understand what problem we are solving.
> Good question. I hope Tony can answer that. If I understood him 
> correctly he's trying to avoid having many journal objects currently 
> having exactly the same name thus being indistinguishable from each other.
>
>> If I understand it, Tony also wants to circumvent the relaunch last 
>> instance by default as well. In the case of your Terminal example, it 
>> would mean you'd have Terminal instances in your Journal for each 
>> time you used the Terminal unless you too the time to go to the 
>> Journal and search for a previous instance. I think that makes the 
>> spam problem worse, not better.
> I tend to agree with you on that one. Tony makes a valid point that 
> Sugar, more often than not, is used by many learners who may not 
> expect to open somebody else's work by default.
>
> Just a detail in your conclusion, is that, by having a `don't commit` 
> option, I would have probably no journal objects at all for Terminal.
>
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