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== Detailed Description ==

The Naming Alert is loved by some and despised by others. This enhancement makes it be available on demand from the <strike>activity toolbar</strike> Frame instead of automatically imposed when closing an activity. The goal is to encourage more writing and reflection throughout the activity, not just at the end.

Old Description: The Naming Alert is loved by some and despised by others. This enhancement makes it be available on demand from the <strike>activity toolbar</strike> Frame instead of automatically imposed when closing an activity. The goal is to encourage more writing and reflection throughout the activity, not just at the end.

New Description: The Naming Alert is loved by some and despised by others. This enhancement replaces it with a mechanism whereby notes can be added to the description field on demand from within an activity. Note that the only other user-midifiable fields in the Extended View of a Journal entry are Title, Tags, and Star (Favorite). The title has a mechanism for changing it in the toolbar already. There is a separate [[proposal for modifying tags]]. By using the same mechanism as the Alerts, it is non-modal and doesn't interfere with the action of the activity itself. The goal remains to encourage more writing and reflection throughout the activity, not just at the end.

[[Image:Write_to_Journal_Alert.png]]

[[Image:Write_to_Journal_Icon.png]]

The open questions in my mind are:

* How is this alert evoked? A dedicated icon (See above) on the Activity toolbar (replacing for example the spot taken by the deprecated Keep button)? or a dedicated key on the keyboard (perhaps the unused Bulletin Board key)? or some other mechanism?

* Should it be the entire entry or just a text field for augmenting the entry?

* Should it be folded into activity.py for all activities or just a mechanism reserved for activity authors who want this feature?

* Should it be optional and/or the default behavior?

== Benefit to Sugar ==

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 == Detailed Description ==
-The Naming Alert is loved by some and despised by others. This enhancement makes it be available on demand from the <strike>activity toolbar</strike> Frame instead of automatically imposed when closing an activity. The goal is to encourage more writing and reflection throughout the activity, not just at the end.
+Old Description: The Naming Alert is loved by some and despised by others. This enhancement makes it be available on demand from the <strike>activity toolbar</strike> Frame instead of automatically imposed when closing an activity. The goal is to encourage more writing and reflection throughout the activity, not just at the end.
+New Description: The Naming Alert is loved by some and despised by others. This enhancement replaces it with a mechanism whereby notes can be added to the description field on demand from within an activity. Note that the only other user-midifiable fields in the Extended View of a Journal entry are Title, Tags, and Star (Favorite). The title has a mechanism for changing it in the toolbar already. There is a separate [[proposal for modifying tags]]. By using the same mechanism as the Alerts, it is non-modal and doesn't interfere with the action of the activity itself. The goal remains to encourage more writing and reflection throughout the activity, not just at the end.
 [[Image:Write_to_Journal_Alert.png]]
 [[Image:Write_to_Journal_Icon.png]]
+The open questions in my mind are:
+* How is this alert evoked? A dedicated icon (See above) on the Activity toolbar (replacing for example the spot taken by the deprecated Keep button)? or a dedicated key on the keyboard (perhaps the unused Bulletin Board key)? or some other mechanism?
+* Should it be the entire entry or just a text field for augmenting the entry?
+* Should it be folded into activity.py for all activities or just a mechanism reserved for activity authors who want this feature?
+* Should it be optional and/or the default behavior?
 == Benefit to Sugar ==