[sugar] [PATCH] New Activity Launcher
Gary C Martin
gary at garycmartin.com
Sat Aug 23 19:48:34 EDT 2008
On 22 Aug 2008, at 20:45, Eben Eliason wrote:
> My recent interactions with the launcher have led me to frustration.
> I updated a number of tickets on the subject, and also created an
> aggragator to track them all (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8090). The
> attached patch is an attempt to solve nearly all of the known
> problems. Testing would be very much appreciated.
>
> The only known issue I've found with this patch is that you can't
> click on the activity level button (in the Frame) while a launcher is
> the selected activity (though you can click on the launcher icon
> directly). Marco understands this issue, but feels we might be better
> off working in a fix separately, since it could be more invasive.
> Apart from that know bug, I believe that this new launcher yields
> expected behavior everywhere; if you disagree, or find other bugs, let
> me know!
Hi Eben, I applied this to a joyride-2330, on an XO, and initially it
feels _much_ better.
However, I've also noticed, particularly when test launching
Calculate-23, if you reveal the frame (mouse corner or key), after
letting the icon pulse get going, Calculate will fail to start (it's
logs complain about rainbow**). I've also managed it with Pippy-25
though not yest with other activities, so it might be a timing issue.
When the frame is invoked and the activity fails to launch, there's
quite a bit of screen redraw/flicker, wonder if the frame arrival is
overlapping the time that the activity is redrawing and focus is going
astray mid way through. (email if you want some specific testing from
me)
***The program 'rainbow-daemon' recieved an X Window System error
(both pippy and calculate logs had this during a launch fail)
Regards,
--Gary
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