[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN TEAM] proposals for the Journal

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Another topic to discuss, presented in the eduJam:
>
> School/Home mode: the user can select if is using the XO in school or home
> mode,
> and can change the mode in a particular entry in the detail view.
> This work as a filter in the Journal, to solve a problem noted by teachers,
> they work
> in a topic the Friday, and the Monday they can found it because there are a
> lot of
> entries in the journal of games played in the weekend.
> If the backup copy only the entries in school mode to the server, we solve
> two problems,
> filling the school server with mp3 files of Britney Spears, and preserve
> privacy of
> the entries the kids created in "home mode".
>
> I don't remember who presented this proposal, but I think has value and
> is a good moment to think about that.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>

This idea has been discussed many many times. One simple proposal was
to have the ability to mark activites (in the list view) for home or
school or both and thus determining which ones write school journal
entries. The home views would be different too.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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