Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Carol Hussein Lerche wrote:

> 
> I think this is an example of behavior that should be configurable.  Young
> children are impatient and try to launch activities multiple times when the
> XO exhibits slow response (see the feedback from various field workers,
> including the letter from my daughter the kindergarten teacher last April.)
> So perhaps there should be a setting that chooses behaviors suitable for a
> young child as distinct from older children and adults.  Are there frequent
> occasions where multiple instances of the same activity are needed? or is
> this an "advanced" behavior?

the right fix for this is to speed up the starting, not to force someone 
to 'unlock' their system to view two web pages.

David Lang

>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> I think we should not run the activity if it's already running.  But
>> there are cases such as when I'm running Browse, in which I have
>> multiple sessions open.  Or sessions of paint.  It's complicated and
>> probably should be left up to the user.  Someone might want to run two
>> of anything.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:31:29PM -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>> I have a general sugar UI question: My activity, "License", a simple
>> comic
>>> book reader <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/License> that has a license
>> chooser
>>> aspect to it, can be launched multiple times if clicked multiple times
>>> from the activity launcher.
>>>
>>> To me, that seems silly.  Is it normal for Sugar activities to be able to
>>> be launched multiple times like this?
>>>
>>> I'm interested in a discussion and hearing what current best practices
>> are
>>> seen as.  I haven't had a lot of time to work on the activity, but I want
>>> to set a few things straight.  (I'm also generally very interested in
>> help
>>> with this activity!)
>>>
>>> -- Asheesh.
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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