[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-19

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:19:40PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Aleksey,
> 
> Dragging the entry to the Journal icon works beautifully, but believe
> it or not I was unaware it existed.  I've been using Sugar since the
> first G1G1 and never knew about it.  I did manage to find the menu,
> though.  It's visible when you open the Journal contents, as shown in
> the attached screenshot from F10.
> 
> I agree drag and drop is better than the menu, now that I know about
> it.  Maybe a kid could figure it out, but I couldn't.

I'm not arguing what is the preferable method to copy objects to/from
journal, I just can't get what you mean by menu option to copy usb files
to the Journal. I just recheck source code history and didn't find any
mention of such code. There is only "Send to" submenu to copy entry via
network.

> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> >> I had to test these on SoaS and I discovered that the menu options to
> >> copy something from a USB thumb drive or SD card to the Journal are
> >> missing and apparently have been missing from some time.  The only way
> >> to copy something from USB to the thumb drive now is to use the
> >> clipboard.
> >
> > but afaik we didn't have such menu option
> > except "Copy" object could be dragged to journal or activated in place
> >
> >> I really, REALLY don't like this.  When I copy an Activity
> >> or a book from thumb drive to Journal using this method I don't get
> >> the file name as the Journal entry title.  Instead, I just get a
> >> description based on the MIME type.  This is really, really bad.
> >> Maybe the original fine name wasn't the best possible title for a
> >> Journal entry but at least you had some idea of what the Journal entry
> >> was and you could easily change it.  Now every book is just "text
> >> clipping" and every Activity is "Sugar Activity bundle", plus getting
> >> these lousy results is more work than just doing a straight copy to
> >> the Journal.



-- 
Aleksey