<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Simon,<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I would support what Bert mentioned in one of his mails-</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><i>When selecting an activity icon it would show the most recent Journal entries and an icon to start a new instance. Fitt's law would suggest to either pop it up close to the activity item, or put it in a predictable place at the screen edge. The former would be almost trivial to implement - simply bring up the palette on click and have it fully expanded right away. The double-hovering is just too undiscoverable and time-consuming. Click-choose-click would be much faster.</i></span></div>
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</i></span></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Simon Schampijer <<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de" target="_blank">simon@schampijer.de</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:31:29 +0100<br>Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] 'Resume' vs 'Start a new' Activity<br>
Hi Vijit,<br>
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So, if I understand you correctly, 'start a new activity' should be the default behavior, when you left click on the activity icon - and this should be represented in the primary palette (top), too. Actually, there is a gconf option (/schemas/desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_mode) that can be toggled to change the behavior, the layout of the palette is not changed though. Would be a good test to try it out.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think what Bert mentioned in his mail would be a good option and this is very close to what I wanted to say in my last mail. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Any comment about the delay of the palette?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I think removing the delay thing completely and showing the complete palette when the icon is clicked and let the user decide whether to start with a new activity or a previous version of the activity( by showing the journal entries of that activity) would be a much better option.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, from the coding point of view I am not sure about its feasibilty, I mean afaik the basic characterstic working of palette is like that only i.e. to display the whole palette only after a delay( when being hovered) and I couldn't find any function in the palette module to change this characterstic . So, it might just require a change in the palette module as well. Still I am not sure about this because I haven't dealt much with palette earlier and couldn't devote much time in searching for the correct way to do so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>VIJIT</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks,<br>
Simon<br></blockquote></div>