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

 Ah, I hadn't seen it.

 It's pretty close to what I mentioned, but with a few differences:

 1 - Only those activities which are running would be colored in the home
 view and their primary action would be to switch to them. Thus, the home
 view would work as an activity launcher on first boot, and then it would
 would work as a task-switcher as well.

 2 - All of the activity launchers palettes would have their most recent
 instances for resume, but by default, clicking on an uncolored one would
 start a fresh instance. The reason for this is because the most recent
 instance of an activity may not always be the one the user wants, so why
 specifically "push" it to them?
 I think the extra effort of having to hover (or right-click) an uncolored
 activity launcher, and then choose one of its most recent instances is
 minimal in comparison with eben's new design (where at least the most
 recent one is a single click away. But again, we can't assume this will be
 the instance the user will want everytime).

 3 - I'm not advocating highly for my proposal, just wanted to make clear
 the difference and its reasons. I think eben's idea is a good one as well.

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