On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25 Sep 2008, at 01:00, Martin Langhoff wrote: > From your experience are your newcomers accidentally or intentionally > launching too many Activities? Is it that they genuinely wanted to have N > activities all running at once? I guess I'm thinking Eben's existing design > proposal for adding recent Journal activities to the Home view icons will > solve the accidental cases, but that intentional use (where the user does > not understand - and most don't - resource usage) will still bite novice > users until they've had their fingers burnt enough times.
Accidental - it's very hard to get a picture of how many apps are running - there is no differentiation in the top of the frame between the 3 things that appear there: - 4 icons for zoom levels / modes - 1 icon for a "magic" activity: journal - N icons for open apps so I haven't spotted anyone "discovering" that N means how many apps are open. (Given enough time and engineering-minded types, they will, but it's not that easy...) So UI changes that help make this clearer will probably be a good idea for a 9.1 ... :-/ cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel