[sugar] [PATCH] Log Viewer overhaul.

[Wade Brainerd]

If we go with the 'Please enter a title for this activity' alert,
would it be possible to add a simple one-click way to say 'Don't
keep'?

This might help with the Journal pollution issue.

-Wade

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > I'm happy to co-maintain.  Eduardo, were you planning to integrate
>>  >  more stuff from Memphis into Log Viewer?  I don't want to interfere
>>  >  with that work of course.
>>
>>  I don't think so. Most of the memphis stuff should be in Analyze
>>  rather than in the log viewer.
>>
>>
>>  >  Off topic- 'Log Viewer Activity' does not fit in the activity
>>  >  toolbar's title entry.  I have seen this problem with other activities
>>  >  as well.  Can we consider expanding the default size of this entry, or
>>  >  else dropping the word 'Activity' from the default titles?
>>
>>  Eben, can/should we drop "Activity" from the toolbar? Double word
>>  activity will be pretty common I think, since a verb is often not
>>  enough to describe it properly.
>
> Three points. =)
>
> 1. There is currently no reason for the arbitrarily short entry field.
>  We can (should) definitely expand it.
> 2. We really should *not* be appending "activity" to the title at all.
>  In fact, that seems to be the wrong message.  If anything, we would
> want to append something like "instance" instead.  But, that aside,
> what I really want is .info support for suggested (and translated)
> default titles!  I've brought this up before, and again recently in
> the ML.  Perhaps homunq can add support for this and activity tags
> when he plays with the bundle spec?
> 3. We need to revisit the possibility of abandoning the activity
> toolbar itself, in favor of a non-modal (or modal?) title request
> alert and a host of features (keep, share, name, tag, etc) within the
> palette for the activity in the Frame instead.  We could probably do
> this along with the new design if we decide it's the right thing to
> do.  I think we need the alert even if we don't drop the toolbar.
>
> - Eben
>