[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Stop start-up icon pulsing when an activity fails to start

[Simon Schampijer]

Filed ashttp://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3092 to track it.
 
Regards,
   Simon
 
 

Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> hat am 7. September 2011 um 15:04
geschrieben:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <
> satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>
> > **
> > Sugar 0.93.3 [1] is now producing this Problem in default applications:
> >
> > icon stays pulsing in top bar after closing these applications [2]:
> > record 93
> > clock 6
> >
> >
> Probably related to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11201
>
>
> > Plus
> > surf 115 "None failed to start" (STOP)
> > Error in log: cannot import name AddressEntry (webtoolbar)
> > icon stays pulsing in top bar [3]
> >
> >
> AddressEntry was deprecated in Sugar. Surf activity should be updated.
> Look at commit 936588fccb392d6d9564484ddccbd01f322d0eaa in Browse activity
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
>
> > Tom Gilliard
> > satellit
> >
> > [1]
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-16-Nightly-20110906.17-i686-Live-soas
> > (2] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3079
> > [3] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3055#comment:8
> >
> >
> >
> > Gary Martin wrote:
> >
> > On 6 Sep 2011, at 18:48, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org>
> > <greenfeld at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  I would like to propose that we stop pulsing the animated icons (in the
> >main screen area as well as the upper toolbar frame) when an activity fails
> >to start, and Sugar already knows to display a message stating this happened.
> >
> >
> >  +1 for stopping the pulse animation on failure.
> >
> >
> >
> >  When this happens the animated icons should either be switched to the
> >highest transparency/alpha state to indicate failure, or be made
> >non-transparent.
> >
> >
> >  Might also want to consider the icon switching to grey.
> >
> > --Gary
> >
> >
> >
> >  Otherwise, if a user is not actively watching the launcher screen, or the
> >activity started but Sugar failed to detect it, the pulsing icons will
> >continue to pulse using CPU cycles in the background until a users spots the
> >issue and presses the "Stop" button found on the failed launch screen.
> >
> >
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