On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't expect kids to have more than half a dozen or so activities > > running at once. Cycling around wouldn't be the end of the world. > > [I have not yet found an acceptable multi-screen replacement for > Terminal.] Given the small OLPC screen, what I do is start two > instances of Terminal - then use one to "read" information (i.e., > for 'reference') and the other to "write" what I'm working on (i.e., > for 'output'). This usually involves a lot of navigating back and > forth between these two Terminal instances. "Cycling around" seems > very cumbersome (and it actually is time-consuming). Maybe one of > these years I'll write some scripts to 'select' each instance, then > attach them to keyboard keys. That should give me good "operator > performance" - a single keypress and I get to a specific instance.
Another shortcut I very much hope to add (can someone comment on how easy this would be?) is alt-backtick ((`), tilde (~), minus shift) for cycling through all instances of the currently selected activity. This would allow you to, for instance, toggle back and forth between your two terminal instances regardless of how many other activities you had running. Another discussion this revisits is which method we desire to implement for alt-tab cycling. The current implementation simply cycles through activities in the order in which they were launched, and that order never changes. The more common approach is to keep a stack from which you can pull out arbitrary elements and then push them on top when they are focused. This means that alt-tab always cycles through the list in the order of last use instead, allowing ping-pong navigation between the two at the top of the stack. This has some great usability advantages, but is tricker to fuse with the arrangement of icons in the Frame (we intended to have alt-tab reveal the Frame so that it was possible to see the running activities while switching through them), since they rearrange themselves. A short animation of this rearrangement, such that activities are ordered by last use, with the active/most recent at the far left, is something we've considered, but not decided upon. - Eben _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
