[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Commented: (SQ-198) Prompt for title and meta data

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Bert Freudenberg commented on SQ-198:
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Or maybe it's not that important for now. Some Sugar developers now think that the enforced dialog on quitting is too annoying:

http://erikos.sweettimez.de/?p=827

<quote>Annoying "Naming Alert": As much as I am a friend of highlighting the naming, tagging and description purposes, I don't think the alert is a good way to 'enforce' this. I think those actions are not first class ones. I am happy when the kids understood the concept of the Journal a bit, but they will not start to make better descriptions in the first Sugar days or weeks, with or without the alert. For now, it is just a confusing dialog that pops up when you close an activity. And later, once the kids would know about the importance they would be better served with other tools. For example an option in the activity toolbar (like we have for the title already). From my experience I highly recommend to remove the alert, +1 when for 0.86 already.</quote>

Also see
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/018841.html

> Prompt for title and meta data
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>
>          Key: SQ-198
>          URL: http://tracker.immuexa.com/browse/SQ-198
>      Project: squeakland
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: etoys-sugar
>     Reporter: Scott Wallace
>     Priority: Critical
>      Fix For: etoys 4.0 - summer 2009

>
>
> From TRAC Ticket #8803 (bert, october 2008)
> When pressing the stop or keep button for a new project, we should offer a dialog mandating to enter a project title, and optionally tags and description, similar to the one shown on non-Sugar platforms. Otherwise it's very hard to find the project later according to reports from the field.
> Note there must not be a dialog when quitting Etoys by other means (like the stop menu entry in the frame). Also this should only done for new projects, subsequent saves should be silent.
> Implementation note: Project current projectParameterAt: #sugarProperties is the dictionary of meta data that will be stored in the Journal entry. 'tags' and 'description'are the two keys in there that we should allow to edit. The entry title is not in that dictionary but simply the project's name.
> The case where we must not prompt for meta data is initiated by SugarLaucher>>windowEvent:.
> (bert, feb 2009) This got more urgent: in the 0.84 Sugar release other activities bring up such a dialog.

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