Michael Stone writes: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:58:06PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>> * It deals with the problem of children clicking on 2-3 activities >> at the same time, which proved to be a real issue in the field >> (will faster activities address this? not sure). > > If you actually want to rate limit activity startup - why not just > rate limit activity startup, perhaps with a "cooldown" effect? This is exactly what Tux Paint has done for years. It holds a lock file for 30 seconds. If it finds the lock file already taken, it immediately exits. This works very well for kids. > Instead, if you want to make it clear that people should be > using one activity at a time, why not queue up launch requests > and allow cancellation of all items in the queue? For other reasons (GUI complexity and the OOM killer), the ability to launch multiple activities should be disabled by default. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
