[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] [MINUTES] 0.88 Meeting --- 16. Jan 2010 (16:00 UTC)

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

we had quite a productive design meeting today. First, thanks everyone 
for attending. We hope to do those design meetings again more regularly 
with the long term goal to establish a process to enhance the Sugar 
learning platform.


Topics: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting

Minutes: 
http://meeting.olpcorps.net/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100116_1110.html

Logs: 
http://meeting.olpcorps.net/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100116_1110.html


==Resume/Start new on the Home View==
After some intense discussions the attendees agreed on the following:
1) Go back to the "start new" behavior when you left click on the icon
2) Keep the options to resume recent activities in the secondary options 
of the palette
3) Keep the palette behavior as they are
4) Keep the alt-click shortcut to toggle the view
5) Add the Journal to the activity ring (at the top) in the Home view, 
colored to make it accessible in the home view all the time
6) Add a list of the n most recent activities to the Journal's secondary 
palette to be able to resume from


==3G==
Few minor suggestions:
===Device Icon===
- the disconnect option in the device icon palette should use an icon 
just like other network devices.
- the connection time should be shown in the primary palette, eg. 
"connected for 02:22" instead
-  data sent: make that: [UP] 23kb     [DOWN] 31 kb
===Control Panel===
- left align the options
===Icon===
Eben will follow up on that.


==Write to Journal anytime==
Instead of the naming alert when you close an activity for the first 
time we will switch to the Journal detail few of the activity. The back 
button on the detail page will bring you, like in general Journal use, 
to the main Journal page. The NamingAlert will go away.

We discussed as well the option to add a tool button to the activity 
palette that would let you add the description and tags from within the 
activity.


==Where is the user taken after closing activities?==
The learner should be taken to the next open activity, if one is open, 
otherwise home. This should encourage continuation of existing 
activities over starting new ones.


Next meeting will be the 23th of January 15:30 (UTC) in #sugar-meeting. 
Since we have not discussed all the items on our list we can go on from 
there.

Regards,
    Simon