<div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Chris Ball </font><span dir="ltr"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><</font><a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">cjb@laptop.org</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br><br>
> No, sorry. The current prompt-on-quit is fine, as it only occurs<br>
> when you stop a brand new activity instance. It basically asks<br>
> "do you want me to keep track of this thing in your Journal," and<br>
> from then on it will auto-save as usual.<br>
><br>
> Since the Keep button is causing so much confusion, I was<br>
> proposing to remove it for now (until we have more complete<br>
> version support), but keep the prompt the first time a new<br>
> instance is stopped. We can still skip the prompt if the instance<br>
> is manually renamed, under the assumption that naming the item<br>
> implies a desire to track it in the Journal.<br><br>
Got it, sounds good, thanks. Here's the obvious patch.</font>
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</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Please, let's move halfway so we don't break workflows already established. For example, someone has already developed lessons for that involve keeping Physics models at various stages of development. "Keeping a copy" from the</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Activity tool bar is a part of that.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Could we instead hide the "Keep a copy" button so that it only appears on</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">the pressing of the 'Alt key'. this should take away the temptation for</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">the 'unsweetened' to become 'bitter'. It will take a while before old </font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; ">habits change and a new mental model of keeping ones work takes hold.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; "> --Fred</span></div>
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