[sugar] Clipboard Notification

[Eben Eliason]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
>  > Personal note:  Been running the "new look" Sugar/Joyride for a
>  > while.  [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.]
>  >
>  > I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left
>  > hand corner -- but I think that is an easily-overlooked location
>  > (particularly since current notification icons have the same
>  > background color as the "border" in which they sit).
>
>  I also find the new 'activity launch notification' less than
>  satisfying. Launching an activity is a very distinct action  taken by
>  a user, and the current pulsing notification is not enough of an
>  indication of the result. It's also odd if you do happen to have the
>  frame open as you see 2 pulsing icons for the launching activity (one
>  the notification and one in the actual frame).
>
>  I'd like to suggest, again, that the activity launching metaphor be
>  one where:
>
>  1) Kid clicks on activity icon to launch
>  2) Sugar immediately opens a fullscreen canvas with just the large
>  pulsing icon (i.e a activity zoom view)
>  3) Canvas is occupied by the activity once it has loaded

This is in fact the very approach we aim to implement, hopefully in
the near future.  I'm in agreement with all of the interactions you
mention below.  The one which may not be trivial to add (though again,
I would strongly prefer) is the ability to prevent the launched
activity from stealing focus if the user has since switched away, but
we'll take things one step at a time.

- Eben

>  This provides:
>
>  - immediate and clear feedback to the kid that an activity is indeed
>  launching
>  - prevents casual/impatient clicks on other activity icons while the
>  first loads
>  - allows access to the frame, and for the kid to switch back to
>  neighbourhood/group/home if needed
>  - if the kid does intentionally switch away, the background activity
>  launch does not suddenly drag them back once complete
>  - the slide out launch notification is not needed, but the pulsing
>  frame activity icon would stay
>
>  If at some future point we get usable Sugar compositing, a nice zoom
>  animation could be added to the launched activity so that from where
>  ever it was clicked, it scales up and into the centre of the screen
>  and starts to pulse, while the rest of the screen content fades out.
>
>  Gary
>
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