[Sugar-devel] relating bug #610 and design

[Eben Eliason]

2009/4/2 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <vamsi.davuluri at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> So I was wondering, after right clicking on a journal item, the palette
> again shows the file name. Why is that? as on most of the standard operating
> systems, when ever we right click on an item, we are given options such as
> open, open with, print, copy etc. Never the file name.
>
> Couldn't the alternate be to highlight the clicked item instead.

This is because Sugar has "palettes", which can serve the purpose of
the normal contextual menu, but are also much more extensible. It's
possible to embed images, descriptions, and other controls into these
palettes, in addition to the usual menu of actions.

It's true that in the list view of the Journal, the name of the entry
is redundant, but that's often not the case (consider the Neighborhood
view, or Home, etc.). The idea behind the palette is to a) provide
more info about the object it relates to (in this case, entry name,
and activity type), as well as provide the list of actions/options for
that object. We keep the redundancy here for consistency across the
UI, and also because the palette itself can cover the name of the
entry in the list.

Eben

>
> Also a fix to bug #610 would be
>
>     def __init__(self, label=None, accel_path=None,
> menu_after_content=False,
>                  text_maxlen=0, **kwargs):
>
>         screen = gtk.gdk.Screen()
>     self.wwidth = screen.get_width()
>
>         #window = gtk.Window()
>         #self.wwidth, self.wheight = window.get_size()
>
>         self.max_pixels = int((1.0/4)*(self.wwidth))
>
> --------------------------------
>         if text_maxlen >= 0:
>             self._label.set_max_width_chars(text_maxlen)
>             self._label.set_ellipsize(pango.ELLIPSIZE_MIDDLE)
>
>         labels_box.pack_start(self._label, expand=True)
>
>         self._secondary_label = gtk.Label()
>         self._secondary_label.set_alignment(0, 0.5)
>
>         if text_maxlen >= 0:
>             self._secondary_label.set_max_width_chars(text_maxlen)
>             self._secondary_label.set_ellipsize(pango.ELLIPSIZE_END)
>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>  def do_size_request(self, requisition):
>         gtk.Window.do_size_request(self, requisition)
>
>         # gtk.AccelLabel request doesn't include the accelerator.
>         #label_width = self._label_alignment.size_request()[0] + \
>                       #self._label.get_accel_width() + \
>                       #2 * self.get_border_width()
>         label_width= self.max_pixels
>
>         requisition.width = max(requisition.width,
>                                 style.GRID_CELL_SIZE * 2,
>                                 label_width,
>                                 self._full_request[0])
>
>
>
>
>
> What this does is, It draws the screen proportional to the max_pixels
> specified(the ratio can be fine tuned by the design team), and ellipsizes
> which ever exceeds that limit.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
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