2007/10/24, Albert Cahalan <<a href="mailto:acahalan@gmail.com">acahalan@gmail.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Eduardo H Silva writes:<br><br>> Yesterday I had this idea: What about providing a secondary palette<br>> for the activity launchers in the frame, that show some number of<br>> its most recent activities, simillar to how the back button works
<br>> in Browse? And a primary option to show the journal filtered by<br>> that activity would still be there.<br><br>This could be OK. I could see it looking like this:<br><br>More...<br>oldest thing of three<br>some middle item
<br>the very latest item<br>[start fresh]</blockquote><div><br>I was thinking more like:<br><br> oldest item of the list<br> older item<br> recent item<br> most recent item<br> Most recent...<br> Start New Write (or some other wording which makes sense in all languages, so that the default `tooltip` shows both the activity name and that it will create a new instance (Write from Start?)]
<br></div><br>Right after the default action, I would place the Most recent... option so as to give it more visibility and be quick to choose, and not be subject to move around on the option list between activities which have more and less entries.
<br><br><br>Eduardo<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Where "[start fresh]" is a click on the icon itself,<br>
the "More..." is literal text which goes to a view of<br>all the saved data, and the other 3 slots are the most<br>recent saved items.<br><br>The order is as it should be on screen, assuming the<br>mouse pointer starts at the bottom of the menu.
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