[Sugar-devel] Tux Paint - Save and new

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

This was the comments from an Uruguayab teacher..
I tell you why it is important for teachers to have the option within the program.
       When the teacher proposes to use will likely be to put together a sequence of something, having to close the program and reopen it for every film set, is somewhat cumbersome, especially with children in the early stages (initial, 1 and 2).
       Other: is very useful image file of the seals, especially when there are difficult to get them on the internet connection to be used in creating games of memory, for example, and any other proposal in which images are needed, especially if we consider that many of these are photos.
       Another advantage: the sheets are created within the program and open the option can be viewed all at once, allowing you to quickly eliminate those that do not serve us.
       Surely other teachers on the list you can add some more ...
So, it's very good that can be saved in the journal and take pictures of him but would also be good to have the option to slide within the program.
      Last, I think what is more complicated obstacle of having to always open new business from home.
Viewed from the standpoint of you, developers, avoid useless files
Viewed from the perspective of teachers, we complicate our lives, we risk losing ongoing work in process if you do not remember to tell children
marked "start again" when it comes to class assignments.
      It would be very interesting that we could ever make the proper connection and teacher developers to implement changes that are really useful for classroom use.
I add another tip. My daughter draws very well and loves to draw. With 10 years I will not sit or Inkscape use The Gimp, I feel that use Tuxpaint. Okay, it's for his age, and really nice stuff out. But ups! draw something new means losing the previous job. Is that fair? No. No one uses a single sheet to draw, using multiple, and nobody thinks you delete a picture but perfect for another. It makes no sense.
But I ask you a child has no right to be creative, draw a long and well? Why assume a priori that children draw more or less, to hang out and you're not cleared to "occupy" space?
That is the other utility Tuxpaint slides.
And please do not tell me that there is another program to do the same. Children are not graphic designers! They'll learn to use other programs.
Resuming: she think that the "slides" view is necessary, maintenance the integration with the jounal...
But make it is can be complicated, or not "optimized" function... A slow process:
for each entry in the journal...   if it's an image...      scale to show..      show in the tuxpaint

"Tux Paint will behave like regular activity but preserving useful features like Load/New."
I think that is good idea..
Another activitys have and dialog.. You can re-use it.. Like the Read activity...
Regards
Alan

> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:57:01 +0000
> From: alsroot at activitycentral.org
> To: alanjas at hotmail.com
> CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Tux Paint - Save and new
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:02:44PM +0000, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I have been using for some time TuxPaint activity ...There is a great little detail in its operation ..
> > One draw something ... Will the "Save" and save your drawing .. Then select "New" and then choose the color or image to begin work, the activityreuses the same "journal entry" and you lose the picture above!
> 
> The original issue, is that Tux Paint is not Sugar activity at all,
> and is not folowing Sugar Journal methaphor. The initial Journal
> support was, well.. not completed. For example, there are buttons New,
> Load, Save.
> 
> That was not obvious for me what to do with these buttons (they are
> useful somehow). Though, there is an ongoing process for removing
> Load/Save buttons (there was a request from .uy).
> 
> > It would not be possible, by selecting "New" is create a new one?
> > As this is now necessary to make 1 drawing, leave and re-enter (and also select the "new" as sugar but opens the last entry ..)
> > This can be changed?
> 
> Eventually, I think would be better to:
> 
> * remove Save button (sugar doesn't have it and even Keep button
>   was removed),
> * Open and New functionality seems to be useful, would be useful to have
>   Open/New (or New/Open) dialog popped up on creating new activity
>   instance
> 
> i.e., Tux Paint will behave like regular activity but preserving useful
> features like Load/New.
> 
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> Aleksey
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