[Bugs] #1382 UNSP: Make 'not resume by default' in Home, or make available a way to switch it

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#1382: Make 'not resume by default' in Home, or make available a way to switch it
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    Reporter:  HoboPrimate                |          Owner:  eben                       
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  design                     |        Version:  Git as of bugdate          
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by walter):

 I think we need to catch our breath here. (1) How much evidence do we have
 that kids cannot find the secondary palette for starting a new instance?
 (In my observations, at least some of the problem is navigating the
 secondary menu--with a jumpy track pad--to get to the start new at the
 bottom of the list is the difficult part, so perhaps just moving start new
 to the top of the list is enough.) (2) As mentioned above, some activities
 almost certainly want resume as a default behavior: terminal, log, ruler,
 sliderule, etc. Others would at a minimum strike a balance between the two
 behaviors: write, turtle art, read, browse, etc. I can think of no
 activity that would want a fresh instance every time. (3) If we do go with
 the plan above, we need to consider how to make more facile access to the
 journal; except on the XO, which has a dedicated key, it is quite tedious
 to get to the journal for something as mundane as resume.

 Regarding the proposed backport, how many schools made an upgrade from
 0.82 to 0.84? I cannot think of any off hand. I think 0.84 will largely be
 skipped in favor of 0.86 or even 0.88.

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