[olpc-help] UI rough spot: or I just don't get it?

[Chih-yu Chao]

Hi there,

On Jan 2, 2008 6:55 AM, dpbsmith <community-support at lists.laptop.org> wrote:
> I find the absence of anything like a visible file system troubling. I take it the Journal is supposed to serve that function, and I assume that you're not expected to be working on more than a dozen or so things, but even so... the Journal seems like a strange mix, I find it hard to scroll back and find the things I want to continue working on.

Each journal entry records an activity you've done. The new entry
comes from the top (as you can see on the right hand side of each
entry). If you want to resume the activity you did a while ago, just
scroll down and locate that entry. (To scroll down, point the mouse
cursor to the right edge of the screen, where there is a white
vertical bar, and then hold down the left mouse key and move the
cursor downwards. This should be trivial if you're used to the browser
interface on a "regular" computer.)

> I find it puzzling that there's no obvious way to select multiple Journal entries to delete them as a group.

Journal entries are not meant to be deleted. If the disk is full, the
entry that has not been accessed for the longest time will be deleted.

> I find the "activity-open-door-icon-'keep'" tapdance to be complicated and distracting (compare to "file... save..." in Mac/Windows-like GUIs).

Try to think the other way -- for somebody who has little computer
literacy, is it really less complicated to locate the menu/submenus in
Mac/Windows-like GUIs? ;)

> I still have troubles with "keep" in the browser. It frequently tells me that "keep" failed and doesn't tell me why. I'm completely baffled as to when I am actually saving content (e.g. a downloaded file) and when I am just saving a URL (which can't be re-opened if I'm not on a WiFi network).

If you want to bookmark a URL, just click the start on the upper right
corner. The point of making a bookmark is to share that URL with your
fellow (adjacent) XOs.
If you want to resume browsing a page, go to Journal, and simply
launch that journal entry.

Hope this helps,
Chih-yu