new sugar work into joyride
Hi all, the last joyride build (1825) includes a big part of the shell redesign explained in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs. What you can see today in the builds is what most probably will go into update.2, but there's still lots of work to do in completing the specifications, some code refactoring and fixing bugs. So, try it if you want, but refer to the wiki for the final design. Many of the smaller pieces are still missing. Regards, Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] new sugar work into joyride
Tomeu wrote the last joyride build (1825) includes a big part of the shell redesign explained in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs. I'm running Joyride 1825 now on my G1G1. The principal difference I've noted is in my use of the Home view - now that the currently running activities are depicted in the Frame, I no longer need to press F3 when I want to return to a running Activity by clicking on its icon. 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 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.] 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. [I dual-boot between Joyride and Update.1. It amuses me that the list of launchable Activities includes both those installed by Joyride (in /usr/share) and those I manually installed for Update.1 (in /home/olpc). If the same Activity is installed both places, seems like I get to choose which version to launch.] mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] new sugar work into joyride
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 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] new sugar work into joyride
The new Home frame design is cool. On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:07:21PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: 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. It'd be nice if the already running icons representing instances of activities were different not just in color/fill. I'm thinking of a visual element like the triangle in the OSX dock, outside of the icon pointing inward at it. Mikus -Eben Martin pgpwJp7llTD9R.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
