[sugar] clicking on icons in Frame top bar (1825)

Mikus Grinbergs mikus at bga.com
Sat Apr 5 18:15:32 EDT 2008


Gary explained to me:
> I was referring to one of the new toolbar icons in the Home view 
> toolbar, top right. One is for displaying the list of all activities,
> the other is for displaying the ring of favorites - the ring of
> favourites is the one I was describing as a frog's egg (a round circle
> with a dot in the middle).

Thank you.  Didn't remember having heard "frog's egg icon" before.

> Yea Eben indicated this is a bug just now, so will get fixed. Clicking
> any of the activity icons in the frame area should simply switch to
> that activity, however, currently if you are switch to Neighbourhood,
> Group, or Home zoom view, the icon in the frame for activity that you
> were just using a moment ago is not clickable (it's the grey one).

Took me a while to reproduce what you are talking about -- if in the 
Frame one single-clicks *directly* within the greyed-activity icon 
(the greying is the "highlight" that shows "the most recently viewed 
activity"), nothing happens -- but if in the Frame one single-clicks 
*directly* within a non-greyed icon for an activity, that is enough 
to take one into that other activity.

That all makes sense to me.  I think of those activity icons in the 
Frame as "switching" icons - they allow one to switch between 
activities.  What *should* "switching from an activity to the same 
activity" mean ?


The reason I hadn't noticed (from a zoomed screen) not being able to 
single-click *directly* on the greyed-activity icon in the Frame was 
because I normally use my external keyboard to navigate between 
views (F4 takes me back).  If I instead position the cursor on the 
activity icons in the Frame, hovering it over the greyed-activity 
icon gives me a drop-down menu - then by clicking on 'Resume' in 
that menu I am taken out of the zoomed screen back into that 
activity.  [The only time this procedure does not work is with the 
'Journal' icon, which does not have 'Resume' on its drop-down menu.]


Thanks,  mikus



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