[sugar] new sugar work into joyride

Eben Eliason eben.eliason
Thu Apr 3 22:07:21 EDT 2008


>  There is a "learning curve" involved with the revised Home view
>  (F3).  It took me a while to realize that NOTHING appears in the
>  "circle view of launchable Activities" until I have gone into the
>  "list" view and marked the star on each desired Activity.   And then

This is a matter of initializing a default set, which we do intend to
do to make the interaction more clear up front, and to make it easy
for anyone to "jump in" from the default home view. Though we will
choose a default set of activities to show, this is also something
countries may wish to customize for their deployments as well,
according to need.

>  it took a while more to realize that if I clicked within the Home
>  view (as opposed to on the Frame) on the icon of an already-running
>  Activity, a NEW INSTANCE of that Activity would be launched.  [The
>  small icon (in the graphic F3) for "most recent Activity" is the
>  only icon within the Home view that provides a 'Resume' option.]

This is true.  More improtantly, the connection we hope to make is
that the colored/filled icons represent instances of activities,
whereas the outlines are for launching new ones.  If you review the
designs linked in the previous message, you'll find we do have an
alternate view which gives preference to resuming over launching new.
This has some dependencies on an improved datastore, but I'd like to
get it working as it may even be the safer default.

>  In the "list" view of available Activities, I can't press PgUp PgDn
>  to scroll - to view the whole list, I have to laboriously click (or
>  drag) the scrollbar.  Also, in that list I can only click on the
>  icon to launch that Activity -- it would require less "positioning"
>  if I were able to select a whole line and click anywhere within it.

The list view is in a primitive form. I hope that this view and that
in the journal get proper keyboard support before release.  We chose
to make the icon the clickable button, just as it will be in the
Journal, to allow other uses for the rest of the list should we need
them, and to make the interaction as explicit as possible. In the
Journal we intend to allow inline renaming, for instance.

Thanks for the feedback on our first stab at the new design!

-Eben



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