[sugar] First time Sugar user's experiences

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Eben Eliason wrote:
>> >>> 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.
>
> I agree we certainly need feedback for this sort of thing.  For
> starters, the icon of the selected activity should immediately appear
> in the ring.  Perhaps we can apply some small animation to this
> activity icon to indicate that it is starting up.  Marco, could you
> use HSV for the icon color, and modulate the S(aturation) on a sin
> curve so the color pulses betwen, say, 0 and 192 until the activity
> starts, at which point it slides up to 255?

Yeah, it should be possible. Added it to my list.

Thanks,
Marco