<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding /home/walter/Documents to volume toolbar</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Walter Bender wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CADf7C8uYRh4Gtm0XADGCO7rN2ACBG7-FeYB98Qg+4MiAH=PBZw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Simon Schampijer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de"><simon@schampijer.de></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 07/06/2011 10:29 PM, Walter Bender wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">From: Walter Bender<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com"><walter.bender@gmail.com></a> This patch adds $HOME/Documents to the volume toolbar in the Journal view. The rationale is to make it easier for people to move files in and out of the data store from the file system -- a feature oft requested by teachers. It also means that Sugar activities can more readily access files generated outside of Sugar -- another feature requested by teachers. Note that this patch requires the inclusion of a new icon, user-documents, that is included in a separate patch. The current version of this patch reflects feedback from Sascha Silbe (See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-July/032200.html">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-July/032200.html</a>) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">First of all thanks for trying to solve this need. About the approach, I am not sure the Journal is a good file browser. The information about the hierarchical file system is lost. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Not important to the use case IMHO. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I presume the use case is to import/export data from the Journal, similar to the view for an external device. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Exactly. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I actually do not like that neither ;p For large file systems the current Journal code takes a long time to scan and then one gets a view of files where the expected ordering is lost. Not sure how to do that better besides including a file browser, though. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Browse is fine for browsing the hierarchy, but that is not the use case here. Teacher often create files outside of Sugar. Having a simple way to access those files from within Sugar is the goal. </pre> </blockquote> This works in F15 Soas-coconut; ASLO install sugar commander 7.xo yum install gedit gedit create test.txt with gedit in /home use sugar-commander to see file outside of journal and then use bottom bar: "Copy File to the Journal" open file in journal. (works for .txt and .jpg files) no connection to .pdf files in journal (as read is non functional) Wish this sugar-commander exchange capability (2nd bar at bottom) could be reversed also need to sugarize evince so it can start .pdf files transferred into the journal. (Maybe not save them once opened for security / just close with no changes) sugar-commander will also import a file from a 2nd USB into the journal. Tom Gilliard satellit <blockquote cite="mid:CADf7C8uYRh4Gtm0XADGCO7rN2ACBG7-FeYB98Qg+4MiAH=PBZw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">(Every teacher I have shown this to has been very envious of this feature.) Also, it will let kids access their OOffice and Tux files. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have to think about the general approach of how we show files on non Journal devices a bit more. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I agree that this is a general issue, but why hold up this patch because of it? </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> regards. -walter </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>