[sugar] perceived sugar performance

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > We should ban banners, really :)
> >
> > The two points that makes our feedback different from a banner are:
> >
> > * It reinforces the zoom metaphor.
> > * It deals with the problem of children clicking on 2-3 activities at
> > the same time, which proved to be a real issue in the field (will
> > faster activities address this? not sure).
> >
>
> I think Eben's got a great plan.  The iPhone does something similar, when
> you hit say the "Clock" icon on the home screen you are instantly zoomed
> into a static representation of the UI, which populates in a few seconds
> once the program launches.  Overall, it gives the impression of high
> performance and instant feedback, when the reality may not be that.
>

Agreed.


> Ultimately this combined with 2-3 second launching should provide a
> perfectly good experience.  Perhaps for the power users, shift-click could
> mean "launch this activity in the background"?
>

I really want this.  Even at present, a shift-click option that doesn't grab
focus when the activity comes online would be most useful.

SJ,
who still wants the "hand" buttons to be mapped to the right and left
mouse-clicks in addition to any other keymapping.
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