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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:22 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
>
>
Thanks for the feedback. I've attached a patch to do #1 above (always switch
to Favorites View when F3 or Home View icon is pressed. Please try it and
let me know what you think.

regards.

-walter


-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
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