[sugar] The limits of Mesh View

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
| A full screen of icons would not be
| legible either, but was I just trying to explore the limits.

That's not exactly the limit.  Although the current designs don't call for
it, it would be easy enough to allow the mesh view to expand past the edge
of the screen, once the number of icons gets too large to show them all.
GTK has widgets designed for precisely this sort of infinite canvas.
People with whom you've communicated more recently, or people who are
geographically nearer to you, might migrate toward the center.

There are many possibilities.  With the current implementation, I think
anything beyond 50 is not really good, and even 25 is cluttered enough
that you want to use search.

- --Ben
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