#8479 NORM Not Tri: non-unique default document naming is confusing

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#8479: non-unique default document naming is confusing
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 Reporter:  kevix   |         Owner:  marco        
     Type:  defect  |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal  |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  sugar   |       Version:  not specified
 Keywords:          |   Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0       |     Blockedby:               
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 This seem to be present in all version of Sugar so far (I am using
 8.2-759)
 (python?) activities have a default naming scheme ("$ACTIVITYNAME
 activity") This leads to 100 entries in the journal with the same name.
 Which one do I want to read or delete? I can't tell. I could rename each
 one but I may not have time. So one solution is to give them unique names.
 Maybe 'Chat Activity $EPOCH_SECONDS', 'Write Activity $UUIDGEN' like the
 journal? Or 'Terminal $DATE' ? If you have 2 saves in less than a seconds,
 you may get 2 titles with the same name. I guess avoid Month or Day as it
 may need to be translated or would it use gettext? Maybe a universal
 counter that only increment?

 I tried this in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-
 packages/sugar/activity/activity.py near line 553:
   uniquename = commands.getoutput("date +%s")

   uniquename = commands.getoutput("date +%N")

   uniquename = commands.getoutput("uuidgen")

   uniquename = commands.getoutput("date --rfc-3339=ns")

   title = _('%s Activity %s') % (get_bundle_name(), uniquename)
 But need to add:
   import commands
 near the top of the file.

 [thanks to mstone for the hint]

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