[sugar] Freeform layout algorithm

[Eben Eliason]

Indeed.  There are many good layouts for Home view.  (And I want to
encourage more!) In the interest of keeping the topic clear though, I
want to make sure that this thread focuses on a particular and more
general layout problem, rather than becoming a long list of
alternative layouts.  In other words, I'm interested in algorithms for
this particular layout, and not in alternative layouts (since
placement with minimal overlapping is something we face in all views,
and only secondarily relates to the "freeform" view in Home).

- Eben

PS.  I'll probably start another thread on an "Extensible layout
system" for Home view.  I don't find the current satisfactory, so I'd
like to outline my ideas for how it could work and get feedback on
that as well.



On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> I'll just briefly mention http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7685 (patches)
> which includes differently-shaped activity rings as well as a
> 'sunflower' layout I rather like.
>  --scott
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>  ( http://cscott.net/ )
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