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

[Gary Martin]

On 5 Nov 2011, at 15:31, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

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

No, the only places to start new activity instances from are:

1) home favourite view (from an activity palette, or by holding alt and clicking)
2) home list view
3) from the Journal by clicking on an activity bundle

Regards,
--Gary

>  --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
> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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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
> >
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