Give feedback during activity saving process

[martin.langhoff]

Steps to repro:

• On an XO
• Open Record activity, in a _new_ session
• Take many pictures, 20 or so
• Close it
• In the Name-this-Journal entry change the name (or not), then click the "check" icon to save&close
• No UI feedbackwhile it's saving! Easy to think it is hung

Ideally, a progress bar. At least a busy cursor spinner is needed here.

[greenfeld]

If this is what I think this is, the Naming Alert has been removed from future versions of Sugar:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Write_to_journal_anytime

However saving progress information might still be nice.

[godiard]

We need change this behavior in Record anyway (saving the media on exit).

There are many reports of kids loosing all the production when the activity crash.

[martin.langhoff]

That some actitivites will save large / slow files on exit. We do need a spinner there.

Saving media duringthe session in Record seems like a good idea, but is a different bug (and fix) :)

[erikos]

A simple spinner for an activity would be:

diff --git a/src/sugar/activity/activity.py b/src/sugar/activity/activity.py
index fdf9827..34e9729 100644
--- a/src/sugar/activity/activity.py
+++ b/src/sugar/activity/activity.py
@@ -897,6 +897,7 @@ class Activity(Window, gtk.Container):
         if not self.can_close():
             return
 
+        self.window.set_cursor(gtk.gdk.Cursor(gtk.gdk.WATCH))
         self.emit('_closing')
 
         if not self._closing:

and for the toolkit-gtk3 respectively: "self.get_window().set_cursor(Gdk.Cursor(Gdk.CursorType.WATCH))"

Ihave applied it here locally and will report back how it feels like.

[erikos]

I have been tried a few activities and it feels quite good to have the cursor-change feedback during the activity save. Of course this works only for python activities. But Etoys has their own saving mechanics with saving feedback. There is only one more non Python app (Scratch), so we should be ok.

[dsd]

Any news here? The trivial patch above looks good to me.

[manuq]

I have tested it and also think is useful.

[erikos]

Ok, Gary also gave positive feedback about the design and how it feels like. We need to patch sugar-toolkit and sugar-toolkit-gtk3 for this in order to be consistent. I will post patches to sugar-devel.

[erikos]

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-May/037693.html

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-May/037694.html

[dsd]

Fixed in sugar-toolkit-0.96.2

[pbrobinson]

fix is in os13

[greenfeld]

We now show a busy cursor after the stop button is pressed for an activity in 12.1.0 os13.