[Sugar-devel] Erase in the Ring and less hot hot corners

[Eben Eliason]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 4 Aug 2009, at 00:26, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>> +1 to taking erase out of the activity ring.  We need to keep that
>> view as simple as possible for the youngest children.  Moving the
>> mouse is a challenge for the youngest kids, fewer targets with less
>> that can go wrong is a big win.

Sounds fine to me.

> Filed:
>
>        http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1128
>
>> I think I'm also a +1 on the less hot hot corners.  I definitely see
>> issues with getting the frame unintentionally.  But that seems like
>> a choice with more tradeoffs.
>
> Can we hold off the Frame wars for just now ;-)

=)

We could, perhaps, agree to increase the default delay for corner
activation, since this is configurable in settings. Alternatively,
this should be configurable for specific distributions, I believe.

I've always been comfortable with about .25 seconds, but perhaps those
who work with kids will have a better idea, given their motor skills,
what a reasonable delay might be. I wouldn't go much beyond .5
seconds, in any case, since discoverability is still important.

Eben

> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:13 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:22:35AM +0545, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>> > e.g. here in Nepal they [...] removed the 'Remove' option from the
>> > activities menu in Home View (so activities can only be truly
>> removed
>> > from the List View).
>>
>> I confirm that with the children I test on, using OLPC build 802, they
>> lose activities from the ring as a result of accidental mouse
>> movements.
>> After a few hours though they don't do it.
>>
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