[Sugar-devel] Allowing only one sugar activity to run at a time

[Roshan Karki]

We have plan to upgrade to recent sugar release. Let me talk with my team
on this and see how this solution goes. Thanks.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Roshan Karki <roshan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > I was wondering if any one has worked on allowing only one sugar
> activity to
> > run at a time. Here at Nepal, we have received complains from teachers
> that
> > the xo freezes as child tries to open one too many activities. We'd like
> to
> > experiment with allowing  only  one activity to run and when child tries
> to
> > open another one a message would come indicating them the status.
> >
> > I think this can be easily done by modifying the sugar-activity command
> to
> > check for other running sugar activities. Or is there a better/safer way?
> >
> > W're running Sugar .82.1 .
> >
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> An alternative solution would be to update to a more recent version of
> Sugar. Since 0.86, we have had a stop button always available on the
> main toolbar of every activity, making it easier and more obvious how
> to exit an activity. We've also changed the default behavior of the
> launcher to open the most recent instance of any activity, so to open
> multiple instances of the same activity takes a specific action on the
> part of the user. Since these two changes, we've seen a reduction in
> the problem you are describing.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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