[Sugar-devel] How to enable activities

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 14.12.2009, at 23:32, Walter Bender wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:22 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:05:18PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> On 14.12.2009, at 18:36, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:02:00PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> IMHO a small but really helpful interface addition would be binding F3 in home view to switch between List view and regular view.
>>>> I would find that quite confusing. How about a different key instead to switch between several views on a screen (for neighborhood and group as well once they support list views)?
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest to try it.
>> 
>> It is a logical extension of the idea of the F3 key ... but on the other
>> hand it makes the key do more than one thing, which may confuse during
>> discovery.
>> 
>> 0.86 already has Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-2 to choose the home view type, and
>> that's good.  I've seen people been confused by not being able to get
>> the activity ring back once they have chosen list view.  ;-}
> 
> Maybe F3 always returns to the ring?

That's what I had in mind.

Plus, when you are already in home view, where nobody would normally press F3 again unless they know this trick, make it switch to list view.

- Bert -