[sugar] alt-tabbing to the Journal

[Robert Myers]

Tomeu,

>On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
>> A thought which has come up a few times in my exploration of activity
>> switching performance, and a few times in conversations on the sugar
>> list, is that the Journal shouldn't be included in the set of activities
>> which can be alt+tab'ed to.
>>
>> The most compelling rationale is that there is already a dedicated
>> button on the keyboard for it (F1).
>
>This comes up regularly and I think we have a ticket where people are
>voting. I believe you can find the ticket if you search in this month
>archives.

Is this #6251? That's the only trac that I see that makes sense here.

My 2c. Leave the Journal in the alt-tab ring. It's an activity. It just happens to be an activity that's always running. Think of the Finder on MacOS as a parallel example. Making it a special case that you have to use a special key to get to is more confusing than leaving it on the ring.

Continuing down that path, I think that the launcher pane should be treated more as just another activity, and also be on the alt-tab ring. Maybe it should also have an icon on the frame.

Bob