[sugar] Clipboard Notification

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
>  > Personal note:  Been running the "new look" Sugar/Joyride for a
>  > while.  [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.]
>  >
>  > I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left
>  > hand corner -- but I think that is an easily-overlooked location
>  > (particularly since current notification icons have the same
>  > background color as the "border" in which they sit).
>
>  I also find the new 'activity launch notification' less than
>  satisfying. Launching an activity is a very distinct action  taken by
>  a user, and the current pulsing notification is not enough of an
>  indication of the result. It's also odd if you do happen to have the
>  frame open as you see 2 pulsing icons for the launching activity (one
>  the notification and one in the actual frame).
>
>  I'd like to suggest, again, that the activity launching metaphor be
>  one where:
>
>  1) Kid clicks on activity icon to launch
>  2) Sugar immediately opens a fullscreen canvas with just the large
>  pulsing icon (i.e a activity zoom view)
>  3) Canvas is occupied by the activity once it has loaded
>

That's pretty much what Eben asked me to implement. I don't know if he
just steals ideas from you or what! :)

Marco