[Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

[Martin Abente]

Hello Bastien,

It is a common problem indeed.

Regarding hardware limitations, Dextrose [1] added an intuitive
resources monitoring element [2] on the frame so we kids could be
aware of such limitations.

More recently, we added a message notification element too, and in
combination, it could be what you need for whenever the resources
availability gets into a critical stage.

1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose
2. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Dextrose_resource_monitoring.png

kind regards,
Ing. Martin (tch) Abente

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Bastien <bzg at altern.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this idea came up recently on OLPC France mailing list: have a visual
> clue when there are more than X activities opened.
>
> The visual clue can be as simple as forcing the frame to be visible
> indefinitely.
>
> Or it can display a temporary warning, advising the user to close some
> application.
>
> The feature could be aware of hardware specification (processor, etc.)
> to be tailored to a reasonable number of "excessive" activities.
>
> As I've seen this problem often comes up on the field, I'd be curious
> whether Sugar hackers think it might be a good idea.
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS: copying Clément, who suggested this.
>
> --
>  Bastien
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