Excellent, hidden/scrolling panels are such bad UI. Hopefully we'll see a replacement sooner rather than later!
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:13:20 -0500 "Eben Eliason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a completely new approach to this on the table, which will be > discussed and hopefully placed into the roadmap soon. Once we've > polished the ideas and the mockups I'm sure they will be available for > everyone to provide feedback on. > > It won't be a start menu, though; I promise. ;-) > > - Eben > > > On Dec 5, 2007 2:08 PM, Christoph Derndorfer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I finally had a chance to play with our B4s and build 648. > > > > Given that a number of additional activities are now available > > compared to previous builds I do find the scrolling in the > > activities list to be a bit tiresome. > > > > Especially when I think about these laptops being in use for several > > months, children having downloaded more activites, maybe additional > > activities will be deployed by local groups or ministries of > > education. That can easily result in upwards of 30 or 40 activities > > being installed on any given machine. > > > > Shouldn't we try to come up with a better (or at least offer an > > alternative) approach to handling these lists of activities? (How > > about a "start" button for example?;-) > > > > Maybe categories or something? > > > > What do you think? > > > > Cheers, > > Christoph > > (OLPC Austria) > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel