[Sugar-devel] how to force Sugar Activities to start fresh? (eg. XO OS 11.2.0 = Build 874)

[C. Scott Ananian]

Is there any way to start a new document once you're in the activity?
 --Scott

On Saturday, November 5, 2011, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> G'day Adam,
>>
>> The holding down of the alt key in the activity view was introduced in
>> Sugar 0.86 [1], and 11.2.0 is based on Sugar 0.94, and I've tested it
>> just now and the feature works fine for me.
>>
>> Sometimes the left-alt key fails on membrane keyboards.  Please test
>> that the alt key works.  You can do this easily by opening two
>> activities and using alt-tab to switch between them.  If this doesn't
>> work, then there's more investigation to do.
>>
>> Otherwise, you can use the ok prompt to "test /keyboard".
>>
>> 1.
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes#Home_Favourites_View_Improvements
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
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>
> The graying out is Sugar's way of telling you that you'll get a fresh
> instance instead of reopening the most recent. If you are seeing gray,
> then it should work. Perhaps the children are releasing the Alt key
> before clicking?
>
> Alternatively, right click brings up the hover menu immediately. At
> the bottom of the hover menu for activities on the Home View is the
> option to open a new instance.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
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