Feedback on 759 joyride

[Pia Waugh]

Hi Mikus,

<quote who="Mikus Grinbergs">

> I myself had GREAT difficulty distinguishing whether it had a white rim, 
> or not.  Much better would have been a shape-change when connected.

Cool, I re cc'd devel for both our responses.

> In any case, in 759 one needs to call up Frame - if it shows an AP  
> circle (one may have to hover over it to verify its name), then the XO is 
> connected.

Yeah I know, but I'm looking for things that were useful that don't work
now :)

>> - needs the journal on the application circle view somehow so that when an
>>   app is open you can still easily find it (without having to open the
>>   frame)
>
> Hmm.  The idea was that the Frame is *easy* to open.  I myself solve  
> this problem by pressing the 'question mark' key (top row, second from 
> left) in order to get to Journal.  What is less "easy" without the Frame 
> is to get *back* from Journal.  I end up clicking within Journal on the 
> entry for the activity to which I want to return.

Yeah, the old interface had the running applications and the journal all to
hand in the interface. It'd be great if that were able to still be the case
somehow.

> [By the way, at home I use an external keyboard (which doesn't have the 
> XO-unique keys).  I've defined two of the "function keys" (with  
> keyhandler.py) to call the Frame and the Journal - that way, I don't  
> have to move the pointer to be able to invoke them.]

I just alt tab to get to everything quickly, but I'd like it to be more
intuitively available and the current running app has a little icon on the
"desktop" but when running more than one app (or trying to get back to the
journal) this is not useful but rather quite confusing. People don't realise
they are running multiple apps and can easily overload the computer.

Cheers,
Pia

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