#2674 NORM Update.: Frame should not "stick" on Home screen

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#2674: Frame should not "stick" on Home screen
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  Reporter:  Eben    |       Owner:  marco   
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:          |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:13 garycmartin]:

 > The permanently visible frame on Home an uncomfortable/misleading
 behaviour, especially with the bug that causes it to be sometimes sticky
 and sometimes not, depending on how you switch to Home. It also leads me
 into a couple of bad sugar HCI behaviours:
 >
 >  * I keep catching my self switching back to the Home screen to start a
 new activity, even though the frame is available everywhere

 The other way to get consistent behavior is to tie the frame to the home
 screen.

 Showing the frame in non-home situations has been a source of problems
 anyway. The animation is slow. The frame is way too easy to invoke via the
 hot corners. Dismissing the frame is both too easy and too hard.

 Note that kids can totally ignore the donut. If they end up on some random
 screen (because the frame popped up and got a random click) then they will
 just start a second copy of the activity.

 >  * With the frame always visible at Home, I often start new unnecessary
 activities from the frame, when I really should be switching to the
 Journal and resuming (this leads to Journal bloat)

 If users must be coerced into using the journal, something is already
 wrong! Don't blame the frame for the journal.

 (It is very normal for a person to want to start fresh. It is very normal
 for a person to want to forget about their creation. The journal is based
 on the wrong assumption that these normal desires are abnormal, even when
 allowing for the terrifying idea of a journal that purposely eats your
 work. The journal is thus continuously spammed with undesired junk, even
 for actions as trivial as starting the wrong activity by mistake.)

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