no activities after 656 --> joyride. but wait...

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, this edge case was brought to my attention by Greg the other day.  It
> will only happen once...in future updates, favorites are preserved.
>  Additionally, in most scenarios, the update will include an "activity pack"
> as well, which includes a country-specified list of default favorites,
> preventing the "empty" Home screen.
> Thus, the only things that disappear are activities which were previously
> installed and are not included in the default favorites list in the update.
>  I'm not sure if we can come up with a simple way to prevent this, or if
> it's worth our time this late in the release cycle for a one-time situation.

IMO, it is worth our time to ensure smooth upgrades between releases.
If there are no favorites listed when we boot, we should make all the
activities favorites, to preserve the activities the user expects from
the old release.  That is trac #7220.
 --scott

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