[OLPC-AU] New blank write document

[James Cameron]

Some further technical details ...

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:22:05PM -0700, IanCunningham wrote:
> Is it possible to set write up so it opens a blank page when it is
> selected from the home view, or is it a design feature of the
> activity?

No, it isn't possible to set Write up so that it opens a blank page when
it is selected from the home view.

Write activity only knows it is being resumed from a journal entry, it
can't know whether the learner did this using the Home View or the
Journal.

Write could be changed to always open a blank page, but then it would
never open a saved document.  ;-)

For interest, in Sugar 0.86 and later, one can hold the <Alt> key in the
Home View to force a start of new activity.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes#Home_Favourites_View_Improvements

A deployment of Sugar 0.84 might be changed to turn off the resume by
default behaviour, bringing it into line with how Sugar 0.82 behaved.  I
don't have the details handy though.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/