[Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #1447 NORM: Display a message when an activity fails to start

[Tomeu Vizoso]

2009/11/4 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
> Hi Wade,
>
> Just wanted to ping on this; have been running with your 0001-Notify-
> shell-when-activity-process-terminates.patch and 0001-Added-Close-
> button-to-activity-launcher-rewrote-lay.patch applied to sugar-jhbuild
> for the last ~4 days, and it has been working very well. Some of quick
> comments:
>
> - On just one occasion (have not been able to reproducible) I saw the
> 'Stop' button briefly display before the activity successfully launched.
>
> - I'm trying to find a different error message '<activity> failed to
> start.' now that 'Stop' is the button text. My mind keeps grating
> against the dilemma of stopping something that never actually
> started :-)
>
> - The pulse pause feels a little long, perhaps 1 or 1.5 sec would be
> long enough. I really need to try and get this patch on XO-1 HW and
> see what the launch time savings are like (I'm sure even a 1:1 ratio
> of animation to pause should save us a couple of 2 seconds in many
> cases).
>
> - What ever the final pulse animation timing/pause ends up at
> (assuming we see some XO-1 load improvement) it should also be used
> for the other pulsing animations as well (activity tray activity icons
> when launching, corner notification effects).
>
> Again, fab work! It really makes activity developing test cycle much
> more friendly :-)

So, do we have a positive vote from the design team on this? Wonder
what would be the best way to get some feedback from the field, is
there already a screencast we can pass around?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> On 31 Oct 2009, at 02:06, Sugar Labs Bugs wrote:
>
>> #1447: Display a message when an activity fails to start
>> ----------------------------
>> +-----------------------------------------------
>>    Reporter:  wadeb        |          Owner:  wadeb
>>        Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  accepted
>>    Priority:  Normal       |      Milestone:  0.88
>>   Component:  sugar        |        Version:  Git as of bugdate
>>    Severity:  Unspecified  |       Keywords:
>> Distribution:  Unspecified  |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed
>> ----------------------------
>> +-----------------------------------------------
>>
>> Comment(by wadeb):
>>
>> I posted a brand new patch for Sugar.
>>
>>  * Improves the layout so the icon doesn't move when the error appears
>>  * Uses Stop as suggested by Gary
>>  * Delays for a few seconds between pulses to give the user
>> something to
>> count and potentially improve performance.
>>
>> --
>> Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1447#comment:10>
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