[Sugar-devel] favorite layouts

[Mikus Grinbergs]

> was wondering what are people's opinions in uncommenting the favorite
> layouts that we already have in Sugar:

How I currently cope is by having Ring layout show the Activities I 
use most frequently, and using 'Search' in List layout (I have many 
pages of entries there) for the less-frequently used ones.

[In this regard, it works well to have the drop-down palettes on 
Ring icons allow removing unwanted icons that showed up in Ring.]


> Sadly, we missed moving them to be extensions:

I realize that people don't have leisure to document -- but from 
such a single sentence it is hard to fathom how the user's needs 
would be addressed.


At least in 650, there was a file with activities listed on 
individual lines.  I could use an editor to rearrange the lines to 
show what icons I wanted, in the order I wanted.  Now with 2629 
there is a file with a single record - the order of activities 
therein seems not to matter (and some activities appear therein 
multiple times) - I no longer know what to modify there to control 
icon order (dragging icons in Home View doesn't work).


What I myself would like is for the *user* to have control over 
where the icons appear.  [For those with many favorites, the 
sunflower (or spiral) layouts allowed more icons on screen than ring 
layout, while remaining attractive.]  But it has never been clear to 
me how long (e.g., across updates?) the system would preserve the 
ordering that might have taken an user many minutes to arrange.


mikus