[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

[Daniel Drake]

2009/11/30 Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>:
> I disagree that showing activities in the Journal, in addition to
> activity instances and MIME objects, will cause confusion.  Many
> activities are more like content.  Activities can be downloaded,
> copied, modified, and deleted.  In Sugar terminology, Activities are
> intended to be verbs while Journal objects are like proper nouns.  But
> if an activity is a verb, the object which performs the activity can
> still be a noun.  For example, the word "hammer" is both a noun and a
> verb.  The noun in the Journal ("Hammer.xo") is an object which
> enables the verb in the Home view ("Hammer Activity").  It's quite
> simple.

I agree. I find it simple too. I'd have no problem with it.

The problem is when you give it to 6 year olds -- do you also expect
them to be able to understand this?

Have you followed the number of problems caused to deployments by the
activity removal feature that was added to sugar-0.82? The children do
this because they think they are removing work created with the
activity.

Daniel