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Revision as of 12:48, 13 February 2011
, 12:48, 13 February 2011→The Notion of "Keeping"
Most of us have heard the "save early, save often" mantra, largely ignored it, and incurred the consequences. Sugar aims to eliminate this concern by making automatic backups. This lets the children focus on the activity itself.
Most of us have heard the "save early, save often" mantra, largely ignored it, and incurred the consequences. Sugar aims to eliminate this concern by making automatic backups. This lets the children focus on the activity itself.
The physical analog for an Activity is paper, pencil, & writer at a desk, canvas, paint, & artist at an easel, clay & hands at a wheel, or sidewalk, chalk, & children at a driveway. They exist as created and modified. No 'saving' action, per se, is needed. The 'Keep' toolbar button (proposed to be 'Copy', [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg13104.html]) is intended'''*''' to provide the capability to replicate the current state of the Activity into a new, separately available Activity object in the Journal. Outside of software culture, such rapid and perfect replication has few physical analogs, and perhaps so has been a point of confusion.
The physical analog for an Activity is paper, pencil, & writer at a desk, canvas, paint, & artist at an easel, clay & hands at a wheel, or sidewalk, chalk, & children at a driveway. They exist as created and modified. No 'saving' action, per se, is needed. The 'Keep' toolbar button (proposed to be 'Copy', [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg13104.html]) provides the capability to replicate the current state of the Activity into a new, separately available'''*''' Activity object in the Journal. Outside of software culture, such rapid and perfect replication has few physical analogs, and perhaps so has been a point of confusion.
: '''* Note:''' The Keep(Copy) action currently produces an object that shares an ID with its parent and so may not be opened simultaneously with its parent in the same Sugar instance. (This is a bug.)
: '''* Note:''' The Keep(Copy) action currently produces an object that shares an ID with its parent and so may not be opened simultaneously with its parent in the same Sugar instance. (This is a bug.)