[sugar] First time Sugar user's experiences

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Teus Benschop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a first time user of Sugar, running it on a ATest board, so on real 
> hardware, I was trying out how the various icons on the screen work. I 
> clicked on several of them, but at first nothing happened. Then after 
> a while the screen started to change, but I got confused and didn't 
> realize which button caused which change. After some time I found out 
> that there is a considerable delay between clicking on a button and 
> the corresponding screen appearing.
>
> Clicking on the draw button, the drawing screen only appeared after 
> five seconds, running on real hardware. This was after the drawing 
> activity had been loaded a couple of times before. When activating the 
> drawing activity for the first time after boot, it took even longer. 
> Starting the internet browser took more than 10 seconds.
>
> Would there be any way that feedback is given to the user after he 
> clicks a button? Something like "Activating <activity name>", of similar.

We should add startup notification support. Using a different cursor 
like GNOME to notify the user about this sounds better than a text label 
to me.

Though we will also have to improve startup time considerably.

Marco