[Bugs] #588 UNSP: Version column in Home list view may confuse, Date not very useful

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#588: Version column in Home list view may confuse, Date not very useful
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    Reporter:  FGrose                     |          Owner:  tomeu      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:             
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Unspecified
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Changes (by eben):

 * cc: tomeu, marcopg (added)


Comment:

 Yes, our initial designs contained a column view sort bar (such as can be
 seen in the Journal mockups here:
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Designs/Journal#03), but this
 control doesn't exist.  The columns, of course, would indicate the meaning
 of the fields, such as version and installation date.

 The reason installation date is included (admittedly not useful for
 activities that are installed with the base, since they share the same
 date) is so that this view can be arranged temporally much like the
 Journal as additional activities are added over time.

 Perhaps we should consider re-factoring the list views to use a standard
 GTK column view of some kind, with rows which contain hippo canvases,
 instead of using a canvas for the whole view.  Tomeu? Marco?

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