#7882 NORM Future : Sugar Control Panel is non-intuitive

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#7882: Sugar Control Panel is non-intuitive
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 Reporter:  gnu            |         Owner:  erikos        
     Type:  defect         |        Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal         |     Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  control panel  |       Version:  not specified 
 Keywords:                 |   Next_action:  never set     
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                
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 Joyride 2263, Q2E12f, G1G1.

 It pops up "mostly covering" the window that preceded it, which is always
 the Home view.  But while it's up, you can't access the Home view; you
 can't go to the Network view, you can't pop up the Frame, you can't go to
 an Activity; you basically can't do anything else.

 It's totally modal and that's very unexpected in this GUI.  And yet, it
 covers so much of the screen that it looks like another Activity -- but it
 doesn't act like one.  (With the Frame up, there's no part of the screen
 that isn't covered by either the Frame or the Control Panel.)

 (You can't bring up the Frame by mousing in the corners, but you *can*
 bring it up by pressing the Frame key.  But when it's up, mousing over the
 things in the Frame doesn't actually work.  It's just buggy.)

 It would be much cleaner and much more predictable to users if the Control
 Panel just ran like an Activity.  It would get its own screen; you'd be
 able to navigate to the Network to pick a wifi while doing your Software
 Update; the Frame and everything else would work as expected; etc.  You
 could even switch among this and other Activities, e.g. if you needed to
 read the web page or the help page that tells you how to use the Control
 Panel.  How simple.  How intuitive.

 (You could bring it up either from the XO menu as today, or it could look
 even more like an Activity by appearing in the Activity list.  Or both.)

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7882>
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