[Sugar-devel] [NEW FEATURE] write to the journal whenever you want

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 17.01.2010, at 13:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 13:21, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On 17.01.2010, at 11:53, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>> 
>>> ==Write to Journal anytime==
>>> Instead of 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. This will
>>> enforce the concept of the Journal.
>> 
>> I like that!
> 
> I'm a bit concerned about the user feeling disconcerted by the
> implicit switch, but I guess this can be checked only by testing.
> 
>>> Are there any major problems with this approach?
>> 
>> Any idea for how to implement that? How should an activity indicate to switch to the Journal's detail page? Or will the shell monitor the datastore and do it automatically? That would be preferable IMHO.
> 
> The shell also knows when the window is closed (that same event is
> used to update the activity list in the frame, for example).

Well, just making sure this will be implemented in the shell and not the toolkit. Meaning we do not need to change the Etoys toolkit implementation.

- Bert -