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

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Simon,

On 17 Jan 2010, at 10:30, Simon Schampijer wrote:

> 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

Just uploaded a couple of new mockup images showing some of the above cases. Nothing too exciting, but might help others follow the discussions:

    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Home_mockup_with_journal_icon_and_start_new_default_1.png
    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Home_mockup_with_journal_icon_and_start_new_default_2.png

Regards,
--Gary