#3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

[Walter Bender]

But my estimation, Etoys will be in very center of the taskbar by
default. I'd say that is putting a high priority on hard fun. The idea
was to put a combination of explore, express, and communicate onto the
primary taskbar. We are certainly open to other suggestions.

-walter

On 9/20/07, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>   We came across this bug ticket:
>
> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3655
>
> -----
> Specifically, the first 6 icons from the left should be (in order):
> Chat, Browse, Write, Record, Paint, TamtamJam?
>
> After that:
> Turtle Art, eToys, Pippy, Calculator, Measure, TamTamEdit?, SynthLab?, Memorize, Blockparty, and Connect4.
> -----
>
>   It appears to me that this ordering puts higher emphasis on "simple
> and easy" things and less emphasis on things that require "creativity
> and hard fun" (excluding games).  Is this observation correct?
>
>   If so, it may send a wrong message to the rest of world.  Many
> potential cuostomer contries have cellphones and PCs already, and
> adults and youth are chatting and browsing and taking notes (and
> playing games) with them.  Are we trying to compete in such
> "cellphone" culture domain?
>
>   I'd say, cellphones and PCs they already have can take care of
> simple stuff, so our priority (or our message) should be more on the
> "hard fun" items.
>
>   What do you think?
>
> -- Yoshiki
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