[sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files

Morgan Collett morgan.collett at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 03:56:23 EDT 2008


2008/10/30 Luke Faraone <luke at laptop.org>:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 20:50, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> > the fact that they will quickly disappear off the screen, and may be
>> > auto-deleted by the system greatly limits their value.
>>
>> Only if they don't get used.  In which case, those entries should
>> scroll off the bottom and get auto-deleted. The same way that email
>> client users usually delete the 'welcome to the system' email that
>> many systems generate.  Once a user learns the basics of the
>> activities, they will spend less and less time consulting the manual
>> and the screen real-estate it takes up in the Journal is better suited
>> for other things.
>
> Until they need to consult their manual, which sugar decided they didn't
> need and expunged.

The activity itself would still be accessible from Home View, just not
the dummy journal entry that would launch it...

Regards
Morgan



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