#8611 NORM Not Tri: New Sugar provides insufficient feedback to users about which Activities are running

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#8611: New Sugar provides insufficient feedback to users about which Activities
are running
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   Reporter:  bemasc            |       Owner:  Eben         
       Type:  defect            |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Not Triaged  
  Component:  interface-design  |     Version:  not specified
 Resolution:                    |    Keywords:               
Next_action:  never set         |    Verified:  0            
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Comment(by bemasc):

 Replying to [comment:4 garycmartin]:
 > Wouldn't it be that running instances would already be the most recent
 Journal entries, and therefor with the Design proposal for showing most
 recent Journal entries on the Home view (icon click resumes most recent,
 hover over icon and use palette to select one of last N Journal entries
 for that Activity), running activities would be at the front of the queue.
 >
 > Clicking on a running entry in the Journal will already auto switch to
 the open instance, so this behaviour 'just' needs to move to the Home
 view. Sorry if I missed some other behaviour subtlety you were shooting
 for.

 You're right.  The page says "Pressing the ALT key while in home will
 transition all of the activity icons to their raw, uninstantiated
 representation, allowing more advanced users to create new instances
 without needing to access their palettes.".  This implies that clicking on
 icons without holding ALT will launch the most recent instance.

 My only addition would be to mark the icons of Activities that have open
 instances, so that users can see which ones are running without pressing
 any keys.  Also, I'm not sure if switching directly to a running Activity
 should be listed under "Resume" in the palette, but I'm not going to get
 worked up over it.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8611#comment:6>
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