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

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#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            
  Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:               
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:5 mikus]:
 > The initial design of the OLPC featured the size of the slice of the
 original "circle of activities" shown for each Activity being proportional
 to the amount of resources taken by that Activity. One could see when
 there were no more resources left. [It turned out to be difficult to
 measure the resource use of each Activity - the scheme was dropped.]

 That was a superious interface. Giving up on it was not good.

 The pie slices could instead be computed by RAM reservations. Activities
 that don't specify
 a RAM reservation have to share a whole pie without slices.

 For activities that do specify a RAM reservation, this bug would be mostly
 solved. There would be no OOM issues with such activities. There would
 also be a small improvement in the problem of starting multiple copies
 unintentionally.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8611#comment:8>
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