Currently, Etoys does not require entering a project name when running in Sugar, which makes it hard to find projects later in the Journal.
One way to improve this is to gather textual information from the project and put it into the metadata, see
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4550
But maybe we could also derive a more sensible project title from the project contents? For example, MS Word defaults to the first few words of text in the document as file name.
Also, we might require entering a project title for an unnamed project when clicking the "stop" or "keep" button. This is a slight violation of the Sugar interface guidelines but may be better than nothing, in particular if we pre-populate the entry with a meaningful name. The interface should be as unobtrusive as possible (better than a simple fill-in-the-blank popup).
Ideas?
- Bert -
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
Currently, Etoys does not require entering a project name when running in Sugar, which makes it hard to find projects later in the Journal.
One way to improve this is to gather textual information from the project and put it into the metadata, see
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4550
But maybe we could also derive a more sensible project title from the project contents? For example, MS Word defaults to the first few words of text in the document as file name.
Just curious, do you think it will work for typical etoys projects by kids? I have seen too many artifacts that contains bunch of sketches (typical Etoy) that name are not meaningful :-)
Also, we might require entering a project title for an unnamed project when clicking the "stop" or "keep" button. This is a slight violation of the Sugar interface guidelines but may be better than nothing, in particular if we pre-populate the entry with a meaningful name. The interface should be as unobtrusive as possible (better than a simple fill-in-the-blank popup).
+1
/Korakurider
Ideas?
- Bert -
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