[sugar] Clipboard Notification

[Greg Smith (gregmsmi)]

Hi Marco,

What if the activity "hangs"?

I have seen that several times with Xaos fractal builder activity and
possibly others. I remember one case in Nepal where it took 20 minutes
to launch eToys.

I think the UI suggestion is great and will help prevent kids from
clicking on many activities while they wait for the first to launch.
Just want to cover the case where the first one takes a very long time
or doesn't launch at all. We need a way to abort (kill -9?) or go on
with other work if the activity is not coming up.

Thanks,

Greg S
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:43:04 +0200
From: "Marco Pesenti Gritti" <mpgritti at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [sugar] Clipboard Notification
To: "Gary C Martin" <gary at garycmartin.com>
Cc: OLPC Development <Devel at lists.laptop.org>,	Eben Eliason
	<eben.eliason at gmail.com>, Sugar List <sugar at laptop.org>
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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