#2535 BLOC Trial-2: Etoys tries to open PNG as project

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#2535: Etoys tries to open PNG as project
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  Reporter:  bert              |       Owner:  tomeu  
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:  Trial-2
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:         
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment (by tomeu):

 Dnd and copy&paste are meant as a mechanism for sharing objects between
 activities: taking some text out of Browse and pasting in Write, or
 drawing something in Paint and pasting into eToys.

 Entries in the journal are representations of the state of an activity
 when it was stopped.

 Until some extent, a drawing, a piece of text or a photograph can be
 "converted" into full journal entries by the "copy to journal" menu
 option. So then can be resumed by an activity that claims to understand
 the format in which that data is saved.

 The other way round, the saved state of activities can be transformed into
 a clipboard object, something that can be pasted or dropped inside an
 activity.

 And opening from the clipboard menu is just a shortcut for "Copy to
 journal" and then "Resume from journal".

 I understand this can be confusing. Eben, looks correct what I said?
 What's missing there so we can make it more explicit and less confusing?

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