[OLPC-AU] [Sugar-devel] another Favorites View proposal

[Tabitha Roder]

Plus one to having home view always show favourites not list view, we get
confused with list versus journal view too.
Second part also looks interesting. Will follow the discussion.

Tabitha
On May 19, 2011 3:22 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't want to coop the current thread about search, but I have one
> concrete proposal (for which I volunteer to write a patch if we have
> consensus) and one long-standing feature request that we should dust off.
>
> (1) I propose that whenever you go to the Home View, you end up in the
> standard view. The only way to get to the list view would be by selecting
it
> from the standard view. I'd even go so far as to suggest that if you
> navigate away, you would return to the standard view.
>
> This simple change would take some pressure off the need to distinguish
the
> list view from the Journal and make it really just for organizing
favorites
> and nothing else, which keeps it simple. (Even an experience Sugar user
such
> as myself gets confused sometimes when I end up in the list view... I
> repeatedly hit the home view button and type F3 to no effect and think
there
> must be something broken.)
>
> (2) Multiple groups beyond just the binary favorites/not favorites
> selection. Lots of teacher (and kid) feedback about wanting multiple home
> view collections. This is more invasive, but if we really think about list
> view more narrowly, then adding this would be seemingly doable from the UI
> perspective. (One home view could be *all*, meaning we could even
eliminate
> the need to launch activities from the list view).
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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