On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > > Personal note: Been running the "new look" Sugar/Joyride for a > > while. [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.] > > > > I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left > > hand corner -- but I think that is an easily-overlooked location > > (particularly since current notification icons have the same > > background color as the "border" in which they sit). > > I also find the new 'activity launch notification' less than > satisfying. Launching an activity is a very distinct action taken by > a user, and the current pulsing notification is not enough of an > indication of the result. It's also odd if you do happen to have the > frame open as you see 2 pulsing icons for the launching activity (one > the notification and one in the actual frame). > > I'd like to suggest, again, that the activity launching metaphor be > one where: > > 1) Kid clicks on activity icon to launch > 2) Sugar immediately opens a fullscreen canvas with just the large > pulsing icon (i.e a activity zoom view) > 3) Canvas is occupied by the activity once it has loaded >
That's pretty much what Eben asked me to implement. I don't know if he just steals ideas from you or what! :) Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
