[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] 'Resume' vs 'Start a new' Activity

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/07/2010 05:19 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> Simon Schampijer wrote:
>> When they resume a previous activity, and they wanted to start a new
>> one, I have seen learners erasing the previous content and keep on
>> working in that activity.
>
> This is the purpose of resume-by-default. The idea arose in response to
> feedback from Uruguay, where students routinely filled their disk.  The
> situation became so severe that, infamously, children in Uruguay began to
> memorize the shell commands required to erase the Journal by force.

I meant that: You click on the turtle in the home screen. Last week you 
did lesson 1. The kids want to do lesson 2 with has nothing to do with 
lesson 1. They erase all the blocks they had and begin doing lesson 2. 
Hence they lost lesson 1.

> If you are working on systems with larger than 1 GB disks, or students who
> do not use the machines full-time, then you will of course be far less
> likely to encounter this problem.  This is not to say that I know what the
> right solution is; I'm not at all sure.

Of course, I see the point of limited space, and I am aware of why we 
choose to have resume by default. The problem I see is unclaerity. Just 
look at the home screen. Do you know what will happen when you click on 
one of those icons? What are the expectations. Maybe there are better 
ways of displaying the options you have in the home view to the user. I 
guess that is what I am looking for :)

Thanks,
    Simon