What about copying the main XO palette to our XO icon in the buddy part of the frame? It isn't used for anything else.
Hoboprimate 2008/5/7, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It was terrible to lose the pie chart for resource usage. > > > That was very useful for both developers and kids. > > > > Was indication (by the ring) of resource usage actually released to > > users? My G1G1 showed only fixed-width pie slices. > > It never shipped because the information was never accurate enough to > be meaningful. In fact, it was most times confusing. It is > unfortunate that we lost this (potential) means of conveying more > info, but I think the new designs gain us a lot over the previous > version in terms of usability. > > > Here is an opportunity for a new "user-information" Activity. > > A 'log viewer' already exists; why not a 'resource viewer'? > > I think this is what the Analyze activity is supposed to be > about...it's a tool for looking at all the technical "goings on" of > the laptop. I think there are a few sections within that activity, > and if none of them currently cover this particular resource viewer, > we should certainly add it to the list. > > > > The new design makes the loss permanent, while > > > still keeping a visual design that no longer makes any sense. > > > > I like the new design. I can choose which Activity-icons are shown > > by the ring. That means I have to go into the 'list' view much less > > often than in the old design I had to "scroll" its Activity-icons. > > > > Also, as others have mentioned, the currently "running" Activities > > can be seen (or switched to) anytime by bringing up the Frame -- > > without having to EXIT the current screen to bring up Home view. > > These are both big wins for the new design in my mind, and have made > my interactions with Sugar much more pleasant since I've been using > the new builds. Two other advantages are the placement of the devices > in the Frame for easy at-a-glance access, as well as the new [people, > places, objects, and devices] edges of the Frame which will support > the forthcoming notification system. > > > p.s. I see that the *order* of the icons in the ring can change > > when Sugar is restarted. I liked it that in the old design > > I could manually adjust the ordering of the Activity-icons. > > Really? File that one in track ASAP, as that's clearly an undesired > behavior. The ring should remain fixed so that kids can recall from > memory where to find the one they are looking for. > > Reordering of activities within the ring via drag'n'drop is something > I wholly support, but something I doubt will happen in the short term > since there are many more important bugs to fix. This actually came > up when I discussed the new designs with Jim yesterday, and it was > flagged as a great community project, since we have no dependency on > it working but would love to see someone take a stab at it! > > > pps. The 'list' view appears to not include a Shutdown entry. > > If my last use of Activity Management was in 'list', F3 takes > > an extra click (to switch to 'ring') to get to Shutdown. > > This is true, but I'm not sure I have a better solution than the extra > click at the moment. I do like the association of those machine > management controls with the XO, and we couldn't come up with a > reasonable way to include the XO in a list view. Of course, we expect > that true shutdowns will be limited in practice, so it's not something > I'm personally that concerned about at the moment. > > - Eben > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar