[sugar] Clipboard Notification
Marco Pesenti Gritti
mpgritti at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 12:43:04 EDT 2008
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
> > Personal note: Been running the "new look" Sugar/Joyride for a
> > while. [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.]
> >
> > I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left
> > hand corner -- but I think that is an easily-overlooked location
> > (particularly since current notification icons have the same
> > background color as the "border" in which they sit).
>
> I also find the new 'activity launch notification' less than
> satisfying. Launching an activity is a very distinct action taken by
> a user, and the current pulsing notification is not enough of an
> indication of the result. It's also odd if you do happen to have the
> frame open as you see 2 pulsing icons for the launching activity (one
> the notification and one in the actual frame).
>
> I'd like to suggest, again, that the activity launching metaphor be
> one where:
>
> 1) Kid clicks on activity icon to launch
> 2) Sugar immediately opens a fullscreen canvas with just the large
> pulsing icon (i.e a activity zoom view)
> 3) Canvas is occupied by the activity once it has loaded
>
That's pretty much what Eben asked me to implement. I don't know if he
just steals ideas from you or what! :)
Marco
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