[OLPC-AU] [Dextrose] Interesting side effect of journal multi-select

Anish Mangal anish at activitycentral.com
Mon Jun 4 03:08:07 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> Well, I believe that keeping the process same for a particular entry -
> irrespective of the single or batch mode  - would be a more consistent and
> intuitive design. So, either the "hidden" installation should be removed for
> both modes, or none.
>

I agree with this. The behavior should be consistent in both cases
(single copy or batch copy)

> Anyways, I had added the progress-bar in the Batch-Operations patch, which
> shows the status of currenty-active-entry (being processed); so the XO-user
> can be sure as to where exactly the operation is.
>
> My 2 cents though ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Ajay
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Martin Abente
> <martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting... I think I considered this case but, I wanted to avoid it
>> originally because I though it could be troublesome by making copying
>> process extremely slow when too many bundles (user might not even know why).
>>
>> But if someone finds it useful, great ;) Would be greater though if
>> someone could test it more deeply to make sure my fears were unjustified.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Added notes at
>>>
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection_screenshots#Basic_utility_of_this_feature
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Ajay
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [cc += ajay]
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:44:08AM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote:
>>>> >> This is the wiki page with some screenshots (for reference)
>>>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection_screenshots
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Doesn't explain _this_ particular functionality though.
>>>> >
>>>> > I agree, it doesn't explain.  I think it should.  But as I'm not
>>>> > familiar with the feature I'm not willing to do it myself.
>>>> >
>>>> > I think the feature needs a simplified text explanation.  It is
>>>> > difficult to determine what the feature can do looking only at the
>>>> > copy-to workflow.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> > --
>>>> > James Cameron
>>>> > http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>>>
>>>
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