[sugar] new sugar work into joyride

[Martin Dengler]

The new Home frame design is cool.

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:07:21PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> >  it took a while more to realize that if I clicked within the Home
> >  view (as opposed to on the Frame) on the icon of an already-running
> >  Activity, a NEW INSTANCE of that Activity would be launched.  [The
> >  small icon (in the graphic F3) for "most recent Activity" is the
> >  only icon within the Home view that provides a 'Resume' option.]
> 
> This is true.  More improtantly, the connection we hope to make is
> that the colored/filled icons represent instances of activities,
> whereas the outlines are for launching new ones.  If you review the
> designs linked in the previous message, you'll find we do have an
> alternate view which gives preference to resuming over launching new.

It'd be nice if the "already running" icons representing instances of
activities were different not just in color/fill.  I'm thinking of a
visual element like the triangle in the OSX dock, outside of the icon
pointing inward at it.

>> Mikus

> -Eben

Martin
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