On 09/06/2010 09:00 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from chm's message of Mon Sep 06 18:51:56 +0200 2010: > >>> FWIW you can hold<Alt> while clicking on the activity to start a new >>> instance instead of resuming the most recent one. >> >> Thanks for the tip. The resume sessions by default >> seems to work better for me when the Activity does >> not have multiple types of sessions so I usually >> want to continue. That is definitely not the case >> with Browse as I usually want the clean start and >> will select another session if I know I am going >> back to previous work... > > We had some ideas on how to improve this during the last design meeting > (quite some time ago), but unfortunately nobody got around to doing any > detailed mock-up yet. Help with this would be very welcome. > > Basically we considered doing an intermediate full-screen chooser after > clicking on an activity icon. It would offer both Start New and a > gallery of existing entries, similar to the (still not merged) grid > view in the Journal. Android or iPad (don't remember which) seems to > be doing something similar. > > Sascha
Yes, we were did a lot of work on this one already (including tests that "resume" vs "start new" can not be solved by just switching modes). I think the proposal from Gary is the way to go and it is on my list for 0.92. Regards, Simon [1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-July/029187.html _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel