On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> Have you considered using the Activity View button (F4) on the >> keyboard to cycle between activities? For example, if you are not on >> an activity pressing it takes you to the current activity, but >> pressing it again could jump to the next activity. You wouldn't be >> able to do the hold-alt trick you mentioned, but it would make that >> button more useful. > > We did discus that option. I think we tabled it because we wanted > the icon in the UI to function identically to the key on the > keyboard, and because we were skeptical about changing the purpose > of a button based on context. I do agree that it makes sense on > some levels, though. One major drawback, as you mention, is that > you can't as easily do the "hold trick" as you put it. I suppose > there might be ways to get around that, for instance by allowing a > short delay between presses before the activity actually switches > and the Frame hides again. We may want to revisit the option, > since alt-tab (apart from legacy compatibility) isn't necessarily > clear or discoverable.
Even without the hold-trick I think it would be useful. My 4 year old would be happy if she could just repeatedly press that button until she gets the activity she wants :) > >> Also, does the Journal count as an activity when cycling with either >> or both of these keys? Right now it does, which feels unnatural >> to me. > > It does, and as long as the Journal is treated similarly with its > icon in the top edge of the Frame, I believe it needs to for > consistency. Others have expressed their feeling that this is > unnatural, so I'm curious to know more about why that might be. I > think that switching between an activity and the Journal may be a > useful function; I frequently find myself alt-tabbing between the > Finder and my current application (OSX), and I find it quite useful. I do the same on my Mac, but on the XO there is a dedicated button to go to the Journal. To me the difference is that I often do work in the Finder, but not so much in the Journal, so it just feels like it is in the way when I cycle between activities. I think this will be less of an issue when alt-tab cycles in most-recently-used order. -josh _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
