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

[Wade Brainerd]

Screencast:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLhWEKchVE

I agree that the new terminology is weird.  My original version said
"Blah failed to start." and the button said "Close".
That made a bit more sense to me since "Stop" implies that something
*has* started.

-Wade

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
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>>> Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1447#comment:10>
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