[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Single instance activities

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Hi

When the XO was first designed it was an open choice for operating system, desktop and file manager. Some innovative choices were made to optimise the experience of new young users. Some I think were good, some bad. 

I think Android is the likely educational future. It is not an open choice like the XO. We do not control the OS and are unlikely to be able to control the desktop, file manager or Activity installation.

I ask, what are the really important features of Sugar in this situation? Is it just the suite of Activities? Collaboration? What role do we see for Sugarlabs looking forward?

Tony

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> 2013/4/11 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I run into a pretty fundamental problem while investigating HTML activities.
> > The existing web applications frameworks (well, at least Firefox and
> > Chromium) doesn't seem to support multiple instances per application.
> 
> Interesting problem, thanks for raising the discussion.
> 
> According to the Sugar HIG, activity instances "provide a way to
> handle files as objects; each instance may represent a different group
> of collaborating individuals, and creating a new instance of the Draw
> activity implicitly creates a new drawing."
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/Activities
> 
> By the way, I think this is the kind of things we should ask to our
> users, and revisit the HIG.  Do they actually take adventage of
> multiple instances?  How many times? In which user-cases?
> 
> > Do you think it would be acceptable for HTML activities to be single
> > instance?
> >
> > To give a bit more context, on the very long term we hope developers will
> > move away from native activities in favor of HTML ones.
> >
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