[sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

[Bobby Powers]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM, FFM <ffm at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:20:44PM -0400, Kimberley Quirk wrote:
>> I don't think we want it to auto launch, but perhaps it should be the first
>> icon on the left.
>>
>> Thoughts on that?
>
> I havn't used joyride in a while, but IIRC (around build 2100) they scrapped
> the "bar" of activities in favour of a more "scattered on home" approach.

gosh I sure *hope* that we switch the default back to the ring before
the release of 8.2.  There was a thread for developers to vote on
their favorite, and I believe the unanimous vote was for ring over
freeform.
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-July/007191.html

Greg or Eben, any word on this?

yours,
Bobby

> I'm not sure what the best placement would be in this case.
>
> Maybe somewhere in the frame (forever, thus able to provide contextual
> assistance in the future), or as a throbbing icon on the home view (just for
> the first launch)?
>
> -FFM
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