[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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