Last night did a lot of activity launching (on 766). My overall impression was that feedback by the system was way too slow. The pulsing "launch screen" (which I like) was introduced to give positive feedback to the person clicking on an activity's icon - but the system was taking much too long to begin showing that screen.
When launching from Home View, I found the most reassuring way to launch was to RIGHT-button click on the icon, wait for the palette, then right-button click again on 'Start'. The disappearance of the palette was a positive indication that my "launch request" had been accepted. The problem was that I had "learned" to left-button click - remembering to right-button click was difficult. If I left-button clicked on the icon, all I could do was wait for the "pulsing" screen to appear. Several times, looking later at Frame, two instances of the activity had been launched (perhaps my hands are more spastic than I thought). [There was ALWAYS a time interval between my click and the showing of the "pulsing" screen.] If I remember correctly, I even had instances where the "pulsing" screen did not appear. [And there definitely were instances where the activity showed *its* screen -- I worked with it and then closed it -- and then the pulsing "launch screen" was shown again -- I had to wait for the pulsing to time out and go away.] All in all, not confidence-inspiring. When launching from Journal view of a removable storage device, I concluded afterwards that Journal was first installing the activity in /home/olpc/Activities, and only then "launching" it (i.e., showing the "pulsing" screen). That could mean a wait of a minute before seeing the "pulsing" screen. NOT good human factors. mikus _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
