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Features/Write to journal anytime (view source)
Revision as of 15:32, 5 November 2013
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[[Category:Feature Accepted 0.88]]
[[Category:FeatureLanded|Write to Journal anytime]]
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== Current status ==
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: 0.90
* Targeted release: 0.96
* Last updated: 08.10.2010
* Last updated: 01.12.2012
* Percentage of completion: 50%
* Percentage of completion: 100%
:[http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-January/035218.html patch to widgets.py]
:[http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-January/035217.html new icon]
* [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg24814.html review thread]
== Detailed Description ==
== 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). (Note that 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_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 (such as always appearing when the Activity toolbar is opened)?
* 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?
* Should there be a separate mechanism for jumping to the Journal entry of an activity? (Again, a possible use of the Bulliten Board key).
Simon's alternative to the Alert mechanism is shown below:
[[File:Description.png|300px]]
We had a productive [[Talk:Features/Write_to_journal_anytime#Log_from_Design_Team_Meeting_08_January_2012|discussion]] that has led to a mashup of the various mock-ups above. New sketches will be available shortly.
First pass re the above discussion (modification of activity/widget.py):
[[File:Write_to_Journal_Palette.png|300px]]
Here is the the text-view version, which shows the entirety of the description field.
[[File:Write_to_Journal_Text_View.png|300px]]
===Considerations for 0.98 and beyond===
Why not add a Write to Journal for taking notes (from the Sugar Frame) as a general utility above and beyond the activity-specific notes???
I imagine a future Sugar having the ability to map the location of the pointer with a software component (much like right clicking in Etoys, or the picker in [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/LookingGlass GNOME 3 Looking Glass]) and then having a data model and code to link learner annotations to any active Activity or visible software element. (Container objects could reveal subobjects or respond to subsequent requests.) A 'show annotations' gesture or control would reveal the appropriate content visibly and logically tied to the current view. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 17:18, 24 January 2012 (EST)
== Benefit to Sugar ==
== Benefit to Sugar ==
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I decided to implement this by adding write to Journal as a menu option to the activity's Frame instance in the shell. This will mean that we need no modifications to the toolbar, but it also means we need to find a way to notify the shell of the activities's object_id, since currently the shell only tracks activity_ids.
I decided to implement this by adding write to Journal as a menu option to the activity's Frame instance in the shell. This will mean that we need no modifications to the toolbar, but it also means we need to find a way to notify the shell of the activities's object_id, since currently the shell only tracks activity_ids.
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== How To Test ==
== How To Test ==
== Release Notes ==
== Release Notes ==
[[Image:Write-to-journal-0.90.png]]
[[File:Write to Journal Text View.png|300px]]
The Write-to-Journal-Anytime feature facilitates the process of writing notes and making reflections upon the work being conducted in an activity, while the activity is open. A new icon on the Activity Toolbar brings up a palette used to edit the activity Description Field. These notes are stored to the activity metadata, subsequently available for editing and viewing in the Journal and the Portfolio activity.
== Comments and Discussion ==
== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]