Trial1 TODO

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Laptop Storage

We have two alternatives here: a more traditional file and directory model and the goal system, the journal.

File model

• Save images from a web page, using a context menu, activated by the right mouse button.
• Insert images in the write activity using a file picker.

There are some features that we will not be able to implement using this model:

• Renaming of files
• Deletion of files
• Copy of text snippets from the web to the write activity

Journal model

Clipboard

• When dragging with the frame hidden you need to move the mouse a bit to be able to paste. Fix this.
• Make drag of images from mozilla work.
• Make drag of images to abi work.
• Preview images in the rollover.
• Briefly pop in and out the frame when a download is initiated or a copy or cut happens.
• Make pasting from the clipboard works as specified (one object is selected at one time, and the user can change it by clicking on another object).
• Copy new files to ~/Journal and name them from their title.

Journal activity

• Entries renaming.
• Startup the journal when clicking on the icon in the donut.

Shell

• Let activities rename their journal entry title by an entry in the activity rollover

Reading

• Open doc and odf files from the web browser in the write activity
• Make pdf autopen in xbook
• Language support splotchy, including Urdu (884)
• new browser windows (Bug 515) and popups (899, 878, 542) confuse gecko
• memory (860)
• gmail gives warnings about scripts executing because the machine is so slow. Need to increase that timeout.

We can't implement browser bookmarks if we go with the file model.

Writing

• Crashes when opening a document (824, 762)
• Pointer too small (822), flashes (823)
• Various other miscellanious bugs (826, 771, 764, 763, 761)

File model

• Open and save buttons in abiword.
• File browser opens onto / (Bug 404, which needs reopening)
• Size the file pickers sanely
• Some theme tweaking for the olpc display.

Journal model

• Autosave also by a timeout (now it saves on focus-out and on close).
• Undo and Redo.

Sugar

• Fix frame activation on edge. We are ctivating even when it's 5 pixels far from the edge atm.
• Do some quick user testing with the fixed edge activation. If it still doesn't work disable it for Trial1.
• When you launch an activity, the frame should go away once the activity comes up.
• Fix the startup notification implementation. Always go back to homepage.
• Do some quick user testing, if better startup notification is not enough, do not allow launching more than one instance of the same activity contemporarily.

Open questions

• What is the use case of an open button in xbook?
• Should we really support rotation for Trial1?
• I'm not convinced we need tables in abiword
• Should we try to land ps2 and write a simple chat based on it?
• Frame undiscoverability. Not much we can do about it, other then teaching.

Bugs that might be fixed already

• DPI related (Bug 889)
• Correct country typefaces being loaded? (Bug 417)

Bugs that maybe we don't need to fix

• configuration directory needs stable name (Bug 847)
• mozilla cache (29)