[sugar] [PATCH] Journal able to use "open with" for activity bundles

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 11.06.2008, at 02:34, Eben Eliason wrote:

> I vote for:
> -----------------
> Resume
> -----------------
> Resume in      >
> -----------------
>
> ...for instances, and...
>
> -----------------
> Start
> -----------------
> Open in        >
> -----------------
>
> The submenu can then contain:
>
> -----------------
> Paint (default)
> -----------------
> Other 1
> Other 2
> ...
> -----------------
>
> Another option, assuming we have (or gain) the ability to apply labels
> to menu dividers, is to add a "resume with" or "open with" label to
> the divider, and then simply group the available activities below
> that.  (This amounts to what we have now, but with the added
> indication that the action taken with respect to the activities in the
> list is eg. "resume with".


I'm late to this thread so forgive me if I missed some semantic  
discussion, but ...

Isn't "resume with" an oxymoron? "Resuming" an activity means we  
continue to do what we were doing. Instances of activities are the  
verbs of our interface language, and documents/people/other objects  
are the nouns. Using a different activity to continue to work on an  
object cannot be called "resuming" because it is a different verb even  
though the noun stays the same. It doesn't even work grammatically,  
"resume with <verb>" is not proper English, is it?

Ideally we'd have actual verbs in the menu, which would make helpers  
like "start", "open", "resume" unnecessary. Or would this be taking  
the metaphor too far?

- Bert -