On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It was terrible to lose the pie chart for resource usage. > > > That was very useful for both developers and kids. > > > > Was indication (by the ring) of resource usage actually released to > > users? My G1G1 showed only fixed-width pie slices. > > It never shipped because the information was never accurate enough to > be meaningful. In fact, it was most times confusing. It is > unfortunate that we lost this (potential) means of conveying more > info, but I think the new designs gain us a lot over the previous > version in terms of usability. >
I recall that in one of the early sketches for the new design, the position of the open activity icons on the frame was serving to indicate the memory usage. What I don't recall is why that idea was abandoned. But regardless, it suggests that the new design is not incompatible with the notion of making resource consumption more explicitly evident. -walter _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
