Eben, > > If you have to do some operations on the laptop and wait many > > seconds just to check the current time, that sounds bad, too. > > The clock activity is wholly independent in my perspective from having > a clock in Sugar. We still intend to incorporate that - the overhead > of launching an activity is silly.
Wow, ok. Kids will have plenty of different clocks. That sounds like a rich environment. > This is, in fact, why I think we need to clarify the use cases for > these activities, and having a computer that is actually > impersonating a clock is a reasonable thing to want in some cases, > but not what you want while you're actively using the laptop. Exactly. That is one reason why kids should make one. And *ideally* it shouldn't be that hard for say, a 12 years old, like I wrote here: > (I think Alan gave a demo of that, and it can be made in > 10 seconds, during his talk at Cambridge sometime ago.) -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
