[sugar] Home Design: Free Layout View

[Martin Dengler]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:52:15AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
[...]
> What could be done on the Home-view page (once the existing "ring" 
> gets too crowded) is to *not* show some icons until an "enabling 
> object" is clicked.  By "expanding" only one "enabling object" at a 
> time, the available space on the Home-view page gets multi-used -- 
> providing lots of scalability.  Since a "ring display of objects" 
> looks good, clicking on an "enabling object" put into an inner ring 
> could bring up an adjacent "outer ring segment" showing more icons.

This made me think of a hyperbolic tree[1,2] layout with the root node
obviously being the XO, the central ring being the activities and each
activity allowing navigation to its instances in the journal.

> mikus

Martin

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperbolicTree
2. http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/attachments/20080613/ac8f9513/attachment.pgp