[Sugar-devel] [Feature] Write to Journal anytime

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

in the design meting of the 16th of January [1] there was an agreement 
to move forward on the 'Write to Journal anytime' [2] Feature like the 
following:

"Instead of displaying the naming alert when you close an activity for 
the first time we will switch to the Journal detail few of the activity. 
The back button on the detail page will bring you, like in general 
Journal use, to the main Journal page. The NamingAlert will go away."

The advantage of this solution is addition of context, as the user will 
be brought to the obvious place where he can make his notes. The 
fullscreen window switch might be confusing, though. At least this 
Feature should be tested and we should do a bit more thinking before 
making those changes.

As the naming alert did bring confusion, too, we would like to remove it 
in 0.88. And aim for a better solution in 0.90. If we do not find 
agreement on this we could add a gconf option for that alert, too.

As part of the issue is: That the Journal is not as accessible as it 
should be, we could make the Journal more prominent in the Home View.
We could add the Journal to the activity ring (at the top) in the Home 
view, colored to make it accessible in the home view all the time (like 
described in the 'Resume vs Start New' Feature.

Thanks,
    Simon

[1] 
http://meeting.olpcorps.net/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100116_1110.html
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Write_to_journal_anytime