Hello Bastien, It is a common problem indeed.
Regarding hardware limitations, Dextrose [1] added an intuitive resources monitoring element [2] on the frame so we kids could be aware of such limitations. More recently, we added a message notification element too, and in combination, it could be what you need for whenever the resources availability gets into a critical stage. 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose 2. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Dextrose_resource_monitoring.png kind regards, Ing. Martin (tch) Abente On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Bastien <b...@altern.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > this idea came up recently on OLPC France mailing list: have a visual > clue when there are more than X activities opened. > > The visual clue can be as simple as forcing the frame to be visible > indefinitely. > > Or it can display a temporary warning, advising the user to close some > application. > > The feature could be aware of hardware specification (processor, etc.) > to be tailored to a reasonable number of "excessive" activities. > > As I've seen this problem often comes up on the field, I'd be curious > whether Sugar hackers think it might be a good idea. > > Thanks! > > PS: copying Clément, who suggested this. > > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel