<div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Sascha Silbe </font><span dir="ltr"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><<a href="mailto:sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel@silbe.org">sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel@silbe.org</a>></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:10:53PM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:<br>
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I imagine that with the 'Keep a copy' action option on the proposed,<br>
'Stop' button panel, Sugar Learners might see that phrase, and again,<br>
panic about 'saving' their Activity. An action option labelled 'Copy' may<br>
instead suggest that a new instance would be created, rather than suggest<br>
that they need to 'keep' their Activity or 'lose' it.<br></font>
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I like the proposal of renaming Keep to Copy and placing it in the palette of the Stop button. I was a bit worried about it getting confused with the clipboard action of the same name, but making it a secondary action of the Stop button should help with that.</font><div class="im">
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The proposed 'Copy' icon might be improved by hinting that a new instance<br>
of the current Activity is to go (copied) into the Journal, perhaps by<br>
placing a new-object star (*) above the arrow pointing to the Journal. (See<br>
attached example.)<br></font>
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At least to me this icon isn't intuitive (I wouldn't even suspect what it does without reading the text; having read the text, the icon does not make the meaning any more clear). Maybe we should use some icon that indicates duplication? I can't think of one right now (two Journals wouldn't be right because we duplicate an entry, not the entire Journal), but maybe someone else has an idea?</font></blockquote>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Here's another attempt to symbolize the concept in a 'keepcopy' icon</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">derived from the paste icon, since we are pasting a new copy into the</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Journal.</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"> --Fred</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br>
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