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

[Tony Anderson]

Utkarsh has made some feature pages but I am also losing track.

Multiple users I believe is a much bigger question. The Sugar on Ubuntu 
uses the same login for Sugar as for Ubuntu - so each user is separately 
identified. However, on an XO, the activities belong to a single user - 
olpc. This would have to be changed as it is for the Sugar on Ubuntu to 
enable all users to share the same installed activities. Independent 
datastores come for free in this scenario; however, I think that 
downloaded pdfs and media files should be stored in a separate shared 
datastore to prevent duplicate use of storage. There is some serious 
design work that is needed before this can be reliably implemented.

Specifically, the Sugar on Ubuntu requires a logout and login to change 
desktops and to change users. In the case of the XO, I advise teachers 
to have the students close the lid between classes so the XO can be 
brought back from sleep and not rebooted. The battery will last for 
quite a long time in this scenario.

One advantage of logging out and then in is that all activities in a 
user's session are closed while the new login starts activities as 
needed. This simplifies keeping track of what activity is the 
responsibility of which user.

Tony

On 06/03/2016 07:59 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Is there a feature page associated with all of these changes. I am 
> having trouble following it all.
>
> FWIW, I am very much in favor of encouraging reflection of any sort -- 
> even simply naming an entry -- upon closing an activity. And I could 
> live with the idea of discarding an entry if the user chooses to at 
> exit for an unnamed entry. But I guess I need to understand the 
> details of the interaction.
>
> As far as support for multiple users, there are some questions about 
> the usecase I have: for example, do the students typically do a reboot 
> in between, or just hand off the machine?
>
> -walter
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Silva 
> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org <mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     El 03/06/16 a las 01:52, Tony Anderson escribió:
>     > I am not proposing to re-enable that feature. The purpose is to enable
>     > the user to provide a title for the Journal object.
>     Maybe I misunderstood. Isn't that what the name-your-journal-entry on
>     exit dialog used to do?
>
>     > Why are we not using the alert which Utkarsh has implemented for the
>     fiddle save? It works. It looks good. He has the code in hand.
>
>     If the purpose is the same - then - is Utkarsh's implementation better
>     looking? More functional? Or does it have a different purpose?
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