Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-24 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
While I dislike to add clutter, such buttons would make things more evident, a.k.a. intuitive / usable Now, genesee has a point, some of the activities are huge - how can the user make an informed decision? maybe adding the information on the size? (more clutter) Oh my, wouldn't it be

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-23 Thread genesee
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I'm requesting discussion of two other improvements to control facilities: One more? Software Updates defaults all available Activities pre-selected. Their boxes checked, in other words. I would rather choose the updates I want than de-select the ones I don't. Some

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-23 Thread Eben Eliason
I can sympathize with this perspective. Traditionally, software updates only update software which is already installed. In this perspective, I could see one expecting all those activities already installed being selected by default, and others left unchecked for one to select as desired. On the

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-23 Thread genesee
Of course you are right. I see now how my perspective as an isolated G1G1 user does not always jive with the primary XO users, A.K.A. the children of the world! If specific deployments are using custom Activity Groups, then my point is moot. My experience is with the various groups on the wiki,

[sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Under the topic Clarifying the zoom levels, Eben wrote: ... a way to branch out further and switch collaboration servers in a way friendlier than the control panel. A problem has already been described - that the existing Control Panel takes over the screen, preventing the user from seeing /