[Sugar-devel] favorite layouts

[Walter Bender]

I think Random is pretty useless. I have a spiral that I use--I'll
submit the patch--that is pretty nice compromise between the sunflower
and the circle.

-walter

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
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Walter Bender
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