> Please use 8.2.0. This problem has been resolved in 8.2.0, by making each > Activity launch take over the screen immediately. In 8.2.0, users can see > immediately that their click was registered, and cannot easily launch > another instance until the current one finishes loading.
Implementation does not always match theory. I use 8.2.0. For my XO, Activity launch does not "take over the screen immediately". When I left-click on an icon (in Home View, or in Journal) to launch an Activity, it takes somewhere between 0.5 sec to 2 sec for the "Activity throbber" screen to begin drawing (during which interval I don't know whether my left-click "took" or not - I just have to wait and see). That "wait time" (for *any* kind of reaction) would be ample for me to left-click 2 or more times (if I so chose) on the same (or another) icon. [And yes - either through indecisive finger movement or through the XO "duplicating" the click, I have on occasion experienced multiple instances of an Activity being launched when my intention was to launch only one. The only way I have found to ensure that only one instance of an Activity is launched is to move the pointer to the icon, right-click, wait for the palette to be drawn, move the cursor to the 'Start' entry in the palette, and right-click again. When I do this, the immediate disappearance of the palette gives me the assurance I want that my launch request is being acted upon. There is still the delay before the "Activity throbber" screen shows, but now I am no longer anxious as to whether it will ever show.] mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
