[sugar] A Sugar TODO List, of Sorts

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Wed Apr 9 04:42:24 EDT 2008


Eben Eliason wrote:
>>  • Add "AlertBox" for use with palettes/notifications
>>
>>  Eben, can you elaborate here a bit more?
> 
> There is a preliminary mockups for this at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Specifications/Object_Transfers
> 
>>  >>  >   • Make activity zoom level button cycle active activities?
>>  >>  What's the doubt here?
>>  >
>>  > Not much really.  I wanted to see other's opinions on it, I guess,
>>  > though it seems quite reasonable.  It effectively retains precisely
>>  > its current behavior, and adds a potentially useful function to it.
>>
>>  Don't we would use alt-tab to cycle through the available activities. I
>>  would leave the activity zoom level button to only reveal the current
>>  active one.
> 
> We do use alt-tab.  We should continue to support this, both for
> "legacy" support, but more importantly for compatibility with other
> platforms.  One potential possibility is to differentiate between
> cycling in "visible order" in the frame (with the activity button)
> while cycling in "order of last use" with alt-tab.

Don't we use alt-tab and alt-shift-tab to address the use cases of 
cycling in different directions? I like the one touch - get the current 
active activity - key and don't think we should overload this with a 
cycling option.

Simon


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