[Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 17:07, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 15:54, Sascha Silbe
>> <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Issues: We do not have a don't save those changes option. If you resume
>>>> by
>>>> default you could overwrite something you needed. So we loose the undo
>>>> functionality.
>>>
>>> That sounds _REALLY_ bad. I remember looking at some versioning proposal,
>>> what happened to that one?
>>
>> Well, clicking on the activity icon in the favorites view will now
>> resume the last activity entry in exactly the same way as if the user
>> clicked on its icon in the journal.
>>
>> It's true that we would like to store all the intermediate versions
>> and allow the user to work with each of them, but we haven't gotten to
>> implement it in something that can be released.
>>
>> So the change here is that we have given more prominence to resume
>> operations and have moved starting up new activities to a second
>> place. But we haven't really changed the mechanics by which activities
>> get stored in the journal.
>>
>> After talking for some time with Simon, we have agreed on requesting
>> input from people willing to install the last code and giving it a
>> try. We would love to hear about suggestions and are willing to delay
>> for a few days the release in case we find that something can be done
>> and that we won't be regressing in any way regarding past releases.
>
> FWIW: I'd love to give it a whirl and provide some feedback, unfortunately I
> only have access to Sugar on XO hardware – so I'm out of such early
> test/debug/feedback loop until things land in Joyride (or some future
> equivalent).

Ok, I expect it to appear in joyride in a couple of days.

Regards,

Tomeu

> --G
>
>> If we find this is not possible given our schedule constraints, we
>> will back this change out and revert to the old behaviour.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
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