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

[Wade Brainerd]

Hey Gary,

Did you guys explicitly decide that the Journal should be *in* the ring?

I had been thinking it would appear between the ring and the XO, like
the current activity is now but on the top side.  That would make it
look less like a regular activity.

(Actually I never click that "current activity" icon; I could envision
leaving the Journal icon there all the time, instead of tracking the
current activity)

-Wade

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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