Dear sugar@, I played with some of your recent work in joyride-1916 for a few hours yesterday and I took notes on things which surprised or bothered me. Here they are, in no particular order:
* I had a Browse-87 in /home/olpc/Activities and Browse-86 in /usr/share/activities. (I installed Browse-87 by manually unzipping it, then restarting Sugar). I starred Browse-87 and attempted to launch it. Browse-86 was launched. * It takes a _very_ long time to populate the list view. Feedback is needed. (In particular, why can't we draw items incrementally as we discover them?) [This confused Carla when I showed her the new UI.] * It's hard to figure out that you need to visit the list view in order to populate the ring view. I have a couple of suggestions on how to deal with this. a) If no activities have been starred, display a graphic indicating that starring activities will put them in the ring and give a big, prominent button that takes you to the list view. b) If no activities have been starred, include an icon for a tutorial activity which, among other things, teaches you how to star more activities. c) Pressing the "home" zoom key (i.e. the circle with a single dot) multiple times should cycle through the ring and list views. (And maybe the Journal as well? The Journal is much more shell-like than activity like at this point.) * Activity icons stop pulsing _long_ before a window is mapped onto the screen. This is a big problem. Eben has proposed one method for solving it; however, there's not nearly enough visual feedback connecting the pulsing icon in the corner with the icon I've clicked. I really think that visually representing the queue of activities being launched and visually moving the icon of the activity being launched into that queue would be a good idea independent of big pulsing activity splash screens. * Stopping one activity from the home view should not cause another activity window to be foregrounded. * We should use the "stop-sign" icon for both stopping activities and for disconnecting from the mesh. [Carla's suggestion] * On my XO, presence became very unhappy as a result of #6586. Dear kernel/firmware people: this badly needs to be fixed. Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar