Difference between revisions of "Human Interface Guidelines/Activities/Introduction"
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| − | We make a distinction between the typical single-application, multi-document model of computing and the | + | We make a distinction between the typical single-application, multi-document model of computing and the Sugar full-screen activity interface, where each object (document) runs within its own instance—multiple instances of a given activity may run in parallel. Activity instances within Sugar provide a way to handle files as objects; each instance may represent a different group of collaborating individuals, and creating a new instance of the Draw activity implicitly creates a new drawing. "Open" and "Save" actions are relegated to a Journal interaction; In fact, we strengthen this by replacing the notion of "Saving" with the more general notion of "Keeping" things. To "open" a drawing you've kept, you simply [[Human Interface Guidelines/Activities/Activity Basics#Resuming_Activities|resume]] it. |
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Latest revision as of 11:59, 11 July 2009
A New Model
We make a distinction between the typical single-application, multi-document model of computing and the Sugar full-screen activity interface, where each object (document) runs within its own instance—multiple instances of a given activity may run in parallel. Activity instances within Sugar provide a way to handle files as objects; each instance may represent a different group of collaborating individuals, and creating a new instance of the Draw activity implicitly creates a new drawing. "Open" and "Save" actions are relegated to a Journal interaction; In fact, we strengthen this by replacing the notion of "Saving" with the more general notion of "Keeping" things. To "open" a drawing you've kept, you simply resume it.