Another way to think about it would be to open the second window on another laptop...
-walter On Dec 5, 2007 9:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear confectioners, > > I have written an activity with a single main screen and a number of toolbars, > selectable by tabs. I am considering adding some new features that would > require one or more additional main screens. > > 0. Is this a bad idea? It sometimes seems like Sugar is designed to impede > this, or that Sugar has a implied judgement that if your activity takes more > than one screen, it's too much for one activity. > > 1. What is the recommended design? For example, the choice of main screen > could > easily be independent of the choice of toolbar. This might leave the user > choosing from among two different sets of tabs, which sounds bad to me. On > the > other hand, tying the choice of main screen to the choice of toolbar might > mean > that the user can't do many actions without losing sight of her data. > > 2. How should I implement this? Do I need to hook into the ActivityToolbox > and > connect my own listeners to its buttons? > > - --Ben > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHV2I1UJT6e6HFtqQRAl1jAJ9HvMg/LpmDj9SpV6QqpRQPAikUjwCgkq12 > +20JqrXvGqO7BRy5lI1nN+w= > =oOHv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

