<div dir="ltr">2008/8/19 Zarro Boogs per Child <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugtracker@laptop.org">bugtracker@laptop.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
#8041: Sugar lacks a "Trash/Recycle bin" system<br>
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Reporter: HoboPrimate | Owner: Eben<br>
Type: enhancement | Status: new<br>
Priority: high | Milestone: 9.1.0<br>
Component: interface-design | Version: Development build as of this date<br>
Resolution: | Keywords: 9.1.0:?<br>
Next_action: design | Verified: 0<br>
Blockedby: | Blocking:<br>
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Changes (by Eben):<br>
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* next_action: never set => design<br>
* cc: christianmarc, tomeu, martin.langhoff (added)<br>
* priority: normal => high<br>
* version: not specified => Development build as of this date<br>
* milestone: => 9.1.0<br>
* keywords: => 9.1.0:?<br>
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Comment:<br>
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The Journal is, by design, meant to make a trash system completely<br>
unnecessary, on account of an incremental backup mechanism that allows<br>
kids to peruse record of (preview, title, description etc.) things they've<br>
made and since deleted (much like looking in the trash), as well as<br>
restore individual files from backup if they want to recover them again<br>
(much like removing something from the trash). There will, of course,<br>
also be a way to permanently erase entries which they don't want any<br>
record of anymore (much like emptying the trash).<br>
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Obviously, at some point, there won't be enough backup room either, and<br>
things will have to go permanently, but this can be handled in much the<br>
same way that the initial deletion process happens, which, as is described<br>
in many other places, should guide the user through their documents,<br>
suggesting a number of entries for deletion based on some heuristics<br>
(including backup-present, file size, favorite status, recency of use,<br>
frequency of use, etc.).<br>
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Ticket URL: <<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8041#comment:2" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8041#comment:2</a>><br>
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OLPC bug tracking system</font></blockquote><div> </div></div>But my point was that, at the moment, you can choose to "Erase" an item, and it's gone forever. I expect that many kids will do this, and will at some point regret erasing some item.<br>
I understand the idea of the backup system. I still propose for the existence of a ~/.Trash directory, either on the XO, and/or on the users /home directory at the backup server, used explicitly to store "erased" entries, with strict limits on the size and age of items stored there.<br>
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