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

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/11/2010 09:37 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:37:35PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
>
>> As a straw-man, the ring view would now display two concentric circles of
>> icons. The inner ring would have consist of colored "resumable"
>> activities and
>> would have occasional holes when no resumable instance was available.
>> The outer
>> ring would consist of uncolored "start new" icons.
> Interesting idea. Personally I would switch the two rings (start
> empty/fresh from the inner circle, spread out to ones you already worked
> on), but this is quite superficial (small inner area = no/few work done,
> large outer area = more work done) of course. In theory it would allow
> to stack even more rings around it (-> history, show most recent on the
> outside), but in practice even the single-ring layout tends to need too
> much space already.
> A variant would be showing pairs of icons in a single ring; don't know
> what looks better or is easier to grasp.
>
> CU Sascha

Yeah, I think there is an issue regarding space with that approach. 
Also, we at least "support" different home view layouts. It gets more 
complicated when you take these into account.

Regards,
    Simon