[Sugar-devel] Switching between activities? (was Re: Nobody understands "Keep")

[Walter Bender]

The biggest downside is that some activities are very slow to launch...
especially on the XO.

-walter

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Greg Smith <gregsmithpm at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I forgot that switching to a new activity puts a copy of the old one
> > on the Journal (20+ e-mails on that subject alone last year!).
>
> This comment and Daniel's ones about the Keep button just make me wonder
> why Sugar should allow several activities to be open at the same time.
>
> Any strong case where this can be relevant?
>
> Actually I'm not suggesting to ditch "switching" itself, I just realized
> that switching could be "quit-and-fetch-another-activity-from-journal."
>
> Then it would make sense to have another instance of the activity stored
> in the journal when "switching" to an activity.
>
> > FYI my philosophy is that the user is never "wrong".
>
> I have the same.  And I've seen many instances with the XO where I had
> to explain why children "shouldn't" launch more than 3 or 4 activities.
> Hence this proposal.  Perhaps you considered this idea before - in that
> case I'm interested in reading thru the discussion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>



-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/attachments/20090709/b1ba95ff/attachment-0001.htm