[Bugs] #525 UNSP: Should Chat really resume by default?

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#525: Should Chat really resume by default?
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    Reporter:  CarolineM                  |          Owner:  morgs                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Chat                       |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfimed                 |  
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Comment(by eben):

 OK, we clearly need to fix all the color bugs.  This is a really important
 notion that needs to be wholly consistent throughout the UI or its just
 meaningless.  It's upsetting to hear that it's still so broken.

 Regarding the higher level question, I'm unsure. I think the system could
 get more confusing if we allowed activities to specify what kind of
 behavior they want, since the user won't know what to expect from any
 given activity.  If it poses a problem, and "starting new" is too hard to
 do with the new approach, as I've always feared it might be, then we may
 have to resort to introducing an extra step into the launch.

 First you would select an activity, and then you would select to start new
 or resume the most recent.  It wouldn't be a terrible system, but it adds
 clicks to the process.  That can be OK if the clicks improve the
 experience.  When you really think about it, there are other things we
 could ask up front too.  Activities that support sharing, for instance,
 could offer to share at time of launch, preventing the need to switch to
 the activity toolbar to activate this purportedly central feature of
 Sugar.  I don't want to open Pandora's box here and make launching any
 activity feel like filling out a survey, but perhaps we could actually
 streamline the overall experience by requiring a couple up-front steps.

 This also goes hand in hand with my previous response about the chat
 dialog in #402, which suggested that resumed activities that have already
 been shared in the past could offer to re-share with those participants at
 launch, automatically sending them invitations.

 What do other people think?  We've been avoiding dialogs in general, but
 this isn't the "bad kind", since it's presenting the user with meaningful
 choices which change based on context, rather than an "Are you sure?"
 ("Yes I'm sure, just do it!") type affair.

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