On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:55:38AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: >Hi Michael et al, > >I thought that starting an activity from the Home View would start it >with no "state" preserved from the last time it was used.
>Starting it from a Journal entry would start it with the "state" of the >saved (kept?) instance, including any files that we worked on before. What you describe is implemented today but that is not what was designed: http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Designs/Activity_Management&oldid=112067#07 I'm simply saying that we should try more fully implementing the design so that we can make an better decision about which interaction model is superior. >In the first instance it may be useful to preserve some "settings" or >"options" but probably not wise to always open with the same file. Both 'resume' and 'clone a prototype' are useful actions; however, some people (me, Walter, ...) think that 'resume' is a better default. 'clone a prototype' is like 'new' but works better with user-editable templates or examples. >What kinds of persistence are we talking about here? Persistence of the 'bottles' that Rainbow makes. >Also, are there any activity launch time performance concerns? I have activity launch concerns (performance and otherwise) in many other places, but not here. > I want to make sure we don't slow down the launch time without a very > good reason. Well, how much risk and how much of Marco's, my, and Tomeu's time do you think we should squander on supporting hacks to make activities launch quickly? Michael _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
