On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:46:09PM +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote: > oh wow, I thought the colour was because you had already played the > activity, but then not all played activities changed colour so was > confused, this might be why though some activities have colour before > you play them and dont change colours due to playing that activity > [...]
Indeed, it can take some time to learn what it means. I'll explain it in more detail. Definitions: "Start" means that a new instance of the activity with no prior data is run. "Resume" means that a saved instance of the activity is extracted from the Journal and then run. Activities are supposed to be supplied with icons that have no colour. In the activity ring, or home view, they are shown initially as grey stroke on white background. Once a journal entry is created for an activity, the icon in the activity ring changes to the colour pair of the XO person who created the journal entry. Left-click resumes the journal entry. The purpose of the colour change is to show the user that a left-click will resume, not start. Deleting the journal entry restores the icon to grey on white. Right-click on the icon in activity ring shows you an option to start the activity without resuming a journal entry. The menu that pops up also shows an item for each journal entry that would start the activity. On Sugar 0.84, right-click or deleting the journal entries is the only way to start an activity without resuming a journal entry. The menu item is called Start, and is white on black. On Sugar 0.88, pressing a keyboard key (shift, perhaps) while in the activity ring changes all the icons to grey on white; signalling that if you shift-click an icon it will start a new activity. The menu item as above is still there, but it is called "Start new". At a distance you can tell from the activity ring the general state of a child's laptop; - grey and white icons; no use has been made, no journal entries exist, - single colour theme icons; they have used activities alone, - multiple colour theme icons; they have either changed their colour choices, or have collaborated over network. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
