764 is imminent

[Eben Eliason]

You raise very good points.  Perhaps hiding it completely was the
correct solution....there was disagreement. (Although, hiding wouldn't
fix the focus ring issue...)

- Eben


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2008, at 02:30, Eben Eliason wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 25 Sep 2008, at 23:39, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>>>
>>>> #7969          Accidental searches lead to a "blank" Home screen
>>>> sugar-0.82.9-1.olpc3
>>>
>>> Hmmm, just installed 8.2-764. I don't think the expected behaviour is
>>> that the Home view search be permanently disabled/deactivated? If I go
>>> to List view, it's works as before, but on the graphical layout home
>>> view (ring, random) the activity search fill area doesn't accept
>>> input, has a black fill, and has dark grey outline and looking-glass
>>> icon.
>>
>> Yup, we were getting several reports that kids accidentally pressed
>> keys while at the Home screen (which auto-focuses the search field.)..
>> This was taking them to an empty list view with no matches, which
>> made them think it was broken.  We've disabled it in the favorites
>> view until we can a) add a proper "no matching activities" message in
>> the list, and we can actually do a search in favorites itself without
>> resorting to the view switch, which was kind of a hack.
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7969
>>
>> - Eben
>
> Thanks Eben, found it. Added my none too chuffed comment – sorry – really
> looks quite the ugly hack, and on the first screen anyone will see from
> Sugar. Also doesn't help that the default input focus has now crawled it's
> way onto the ring view icon (now has that nasty white box outline around the
> circle), but that's the least of your worries.
>
> --Gary