#8748 NORM Not Tri: Sugar cannot upload images from the Journal to TRAC

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#8748: Sugar cannot upload images from the Journal to TRAC
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 Reporter:  gnu               |         Owner:  Eben                             
     Type:  defect            |        Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal            |     Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
Component:  interface-design  |       Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                    |   Next_action:  package                          
 Verified:  0                 |     Blockedby:  1053                             
 Blocking:                    |  
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 I was reporting #8747 from a real computer, and decided to try to upload
 the faulty screen image from my XO.

 On the XO, from the copy of Browse that was showing the faulty screen
 image, I selected the entire URL and pressed Ctrl-C to copy it.  An icon
 appeared in the lower left corner of the screen.  I then navigated to
 dev.laptop.org/ticket/8747, logged in, pressed "Attach File", and
 got to the "Add Attachment to Ticket #8747" page, which has a place to
 enter "File (size limit 19 MB)", a button to Browse (the local
 filesystem), and a description field.

 I could click in the File text input box, and type, but I could not Paste
 into it.  I tried Ctrl-V.  I tried Shift-Ctrl-V.  Nothing happened.  I
 tried bringing up the Frame and dragging the icon into the text box.  That
 replaced the whole page (with an error page saying it couldn't access that
 file).  I tried clicking the Browse  (local filesystem) button.  Of course
 you can't Browse in a laptop that doesn't have a file browser or a file
 open dialogue.  Of course it didn't bring up the Journal.  It didn't do
 anything.

 The file name involved was a long, long, long name saying something about
 /isolation and a long random name ending in .jpg  I was not about to try
 copying it out on paper and then switching web pages and then try typing
 it in from paper.  For all I know, Browse is not *permitted* to access
 this file in the Journal, because it was created by a different "Activity"
 running under a different UID.

 It is long overdue for OLPC to throw out the whole Journal/Datastore
 paradigm -- and the crappy nonfunctional Sugarized software -- and replace
 it with the workhorse software that runs on every other Linux system.  The
 software every XO developer uses to get their work done, every day.

 But hey, as long as the majority of XO users have no real filesystem or
 browser, and have no real computer accessible to them, they sure won't
 report very many bugs...which makes the Sugar developers' life much
 easier.  And when nobody can develop on the machine, not because the
 machine or the kids are incapable, but because the UI doesn't allow it and
 the paradigm doesn't ever teach them about hierarchical filesystems, there
 isn't all the hassle of integrating patch contributions from hundreds of
 thousands of kids.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8748>
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