<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernie@sugarlabs.org">bernie@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:47 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:<br>
> I used my 12h plane ride to Montevideo to play around with 11.2.0<br>
> build 16 and Dextrose 508 on my two XO-1.5 machines. I thought I'd<br>
> brielfy comment on some observation I made in the Journal:<br>
><br>
> * When copying large files (in my case a 700MB video) over from a USB<br>
> drive to the Journal there's no indication of the progress of the<br>
> copy-process. For small files I do remember seeing the gray-screen<br>
> with some sort of progress-bar but for this one it really looked as<br>
> though the system was simply frozen all throughout the copy process<br>
> (which also seemed to take ages compared to doing it on my regular<br>
> laptop). [11.2.0 / Dextrose]<br>
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</div>This is indeed a big usability problem.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>My thoughts exactly.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
> * 11.2.0 (not sure about previous versions) also shows the available<br>
> Journal space after hovering over the Journal icon when a USB drive is<br>
> connected. This is really handy when trying to decide whether to copy<br>
> over large files from external media so I think it would be great if<br>
> Dextrose also integrated it (which it currently doesn't seem to do).<br>
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</div>You mean on the journal icon on the device toolbar, in the bottom-left<br>
corner? This shouldn't be too hard to back-port from Sugar 0.92.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, that's what I meant.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">
> * Last but not least: allowing the selection of multiple Journal<br>
> entries. IIRC this does appear on the to-do list for Dextrose 3 but I<br>
> was wondering whether there's a chance it can also make it into<br>
> 11.2.0? Maybe it's much harder than I imagine but could this be an<br>
> item to tackle during the Sugar Camp in Montevideo?<br>
<br>
</div>This will indeed take a lot of rework. Perhaps it could be started (and<br>
maybe finished) in a sprint session at the Sugar Camp.<br>
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> Overall I was very impressed by these latest software versions and<br>
> can't wait to test them more over the coming days and weeks:-)<br>
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</div>Thanks for taking the time to test *and* report back!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div></div></div><div>:-)</div><br>Cheers,<div>Christoph<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>
url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>
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