lots of scrolling in activities-list

[Andres Salomon]

Excellent, hidden/scrolling panels are such bad UI.  Hopefully we'll
see a replacement sooner rather than later!


On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:13:20 -0500
"Eben Eliason" <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a completely new approach to this on the table, which will be
> discussed and hopefully placed into the roadmap soon.  Once we've
> polished the ideas and the mockups I'm sure they will be available for
> everyone to provide feedback on.
> 
> It won't be a start menu, though; I promise.  ;-)
> 
> - Eben
> 
> 
> On Dec 5, 2007 2:08 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I finally had a chance to play with our B4s and build 648.
> >
> > Given that a number of additional activities are now available
> > compared to previous builds I do find the scrolling in the
> > activities list to be a bit tiresome.
> >
> > Especially when I think about these laptops being in use for several
> > months, children having downloaded more activites, maybe additional
> > activities will be deployed by local groups or ministries of
> > education. That can easily result in upwards of 30 or 40 activities
> > being installed on any given machine.
> >
> > Shouldn't we try to come up with a better (or at least offer an
> > alternative) approach to handling these lists of activities? (How
> > about a "start" button for example?;-)
> >
> > Maybe categories or something?
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> > (OLPC Austria)
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