On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
It goes against the Sugar platform conventions. Stopping an activity needs to put its current state into the Journal so it can later be resumed. That is the fundamental assumption of how kids interact with the laptops - if you feel it is inappropriate, please discuss this on the Sugar list. Really, please do.
In a few weeks time we should be getting some feedback from kids, so I will be able to form an opinion based on some actual data. I'll discuss it then if there's something to discuss.
A nice compromise (besides obviously speeding up the saving) may be to hide the saving - just close the window so it looks like Etoys was stopped, but continue to save in the background. We could even display the progress of this in the Journal, just like Browse does while downloading.
Yes, that seems like an excellent idea.
/Ties