[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 21:06, Christoph Derndorfer
<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, we just discovered that it's apparently just my pendrive (8GB Cruzer)
> that's not showing up on the details view's copy-button palette.
>
> One way or another I think it would make sense to also offer such a copy
> option on the Journal list view itself as else copying multiple files from
> the Journal to a pendrive would be royal pain.

I actually thought we had such an entry in that palette.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Christoph
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Bernie just brought my XO-1 back from the dark ages (I was using 802) by
>> passing me a pen-drive with build 300py (F11 + Sugar 0.88 if I'm not
>> mistaken).
>>
>> Now playing around with it I realized that there was no menu option to
>> copy something from the Journal onto a pendrive. Neither the popup menu over
>> a Journal entry itself nor the copy-button on the details view offers such
>> an option. Am I mistaken or did such an option exist in earlier builds?
>>
>> Thanks to the Uruguayan Sugar-devs in the room I learned that I could
>> drag'n'drop a Journal entry right onto the pendrive icon. This surprised me
>> quite a bit since I believe it's the first time I've seen drag'n'drop used
>> in Sugar.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm thinking that adding a copy-to-pendrive option in the normal
>> Journal menus (both the details view as well as the normal popup menu) would
>> make sense since it's consistant with the rest of Sugar whereas drag'n'drop
>> isn't really IMHO.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>> co-editor, olpcnews
>> url: www.olpcnews.com
>> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
>
>
>
> --
> Christoph Derndorfer
> co-editor, olpcnews
> url: www.olpcnews.com
> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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