Re: [Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2011/3/8 Bastien > "C. Scott Ananian" writes: > > > What about just closing the excess activities? Why make the kids do > > more work? > > Maybe with a warning first? > Maybe for backwards-compatibility, but child-friendly activities should be able to "save and close" without losing anything.

Re: [Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread Bastien
"C. Scott Ananian" writes: > What about just closing the excess activities?  Why make the kids do > more work? Maybe with a warning first? -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/su

Re: [Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
What about just closing the excess activities? Why make the kids do more work? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Bastien wrote: > Hi all, > > this idea came up recently on OLPC France mailing list: have a visual > clue when there are more than X activities opened. > > The visual clue can be as simple as forcing the frame to be visible > indefinitely. > http://www.mail-archiv

Re: [Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread Bastien
Hi Martin, Martin Abente writes: > It is a common problem indeed. > > Regarding hardware limitations, Dextrose [1] added an intuitive > resources monitoring element [2] on the frame so we kids could be > aware of such limitations. > > More recently, we added a message notification element too, a

Re: [Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Bastien, It is a common problem indeed. Regarding hardware limitations, Dextrose [1] added an intuitive resources monitoring element [2] on the frame so we kids could be aware of such limitations. More recently, we added a message notification element too, and in combination, it could be w

[Sugar-devel] FR: visual notification when too many activities are open

2011-03-08 Thread Bastien
Hi all, this idea came up recently on OLPC France mailing list: have a visual clue when there are more than X activities opened. The visual clue can be as simple as forcing the frame to be visible indefinitely. Or it can display a temporary warning, advising the user to close some application.