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

[Simon Schampijer]

In yesterday's design meeting [1] we discussed this issue. The outcome 
was the following (full logs can be found at [2]):

The design team tried to find a solution to keep the distinction between 
the Home View and the Journal clear: The Journal is the place to resume 
previous work. The Home View is the place to start new work. It is still 
possible for, maybe more advanced, users to resume previous work 
(filtered by activity type) in the home view as a secondary option using 
the activity icon palette. The Journal is more prominent in the home 
view. This means:

1) Go back to the "start new" behavior when you left click on the 
activity icon, the activity icons are all gray to visualize that

2) Keep the options to resume recent activities in the secondary options 
of the palette

3) Keep the palette behavior as they are (right click on the activity 
icon to bring the full palette up immediately, delayed build up on 
hovering over the icon)

4) Keep the alt-click shortcut to toggle the view (holding the alt-key 
down will change the behavior to resume by default)

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


Are there any major problems with this approach? Feedback from the field 
why this approach would be a complete disaster?

Thanks,
    Simon

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting
[2] 
http://meeting.olpcorps.net/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100116_1110.html