[Etoys] quitting from etoys

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Eben Eliason <eben at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Eben Eliason <eben at laptop.org> wrote:
>  >  > >  >  A nice compromise (besides obviously speeding up the saving) may be to
>  >  >  >  >  hide the saving - just close the window so it looks like Etoys was
>  >  >  >  >  stopped, but continue to save in the background. We could even display
>  >  >  >  >  the progress of this in the Journal, just like Browse does while
>  >  >  >  >  downloading.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  Yes, that seems like an excellent idea.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Yes, this is definitely a direction worth exploring further. When
>  >  >  designing the "in progress" visual for Journal entries, it was
>  >  >  definitely my intent to support save operations in addition to
>  >  >  downloads and copies (https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2555#comment:1). I
>  >  >  have also reported a bug on the time taken to stop activities in
>  >  >  general, arguing myself that it's the perceived speed that really
>  >  >  matters in this case, and stopping an activity should feel
>  >  >  instantaneous (https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2523).  Feel free to add
>  >  >  comments to either of these tickets; I'd really like to make this
>  >  >  approach common practice.
>  >
>  >  Yes, do you need any help to make that happen in etoys?
>
>  So, clearly Etoys (and other activities, as needed) will have to
>  handle the smart save on their own.  However, is it possible for Sugar
>  itself to enforce the perceived immediate close on it's own, detecting
>  "stop" events and immediately hiding the window (not without first
>  allowing the activity to disallow this via some handler, of course)?

I think all this is possible, but complex enough to be delayed a
couple of releases, in my opinion.

Regards,

Tomeu