[Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:39, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:32:34PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Christian,
>> >
>> >   > Hi Chris--to address scalability we have a list view from which
>> >   > you can select favorite activities to go in the ring. This is a
>> >   > similar technique to the OSX dock or Windows taskbar.
>> >
>> > I don't think this is working out.  For OLPC (and perhaps SoaS as
>> > well?) we're shipping with every activity other than Log and Terminal
>> > favorited by default, after receiving reports that kids didn't
>> > understand how to launch activities otherwise.
>>
>> Here is a tighter spiral of 74 icons for the home view (running in the
>> Sugar emulator at 800x600).
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/f/f0/Spiral-home-view.png
>
> +1

Sorry if this has already been considered, but maybe the favorites
view should only contain the few most used activities and the rest can
be launched from the list view? If this is not viable for some reason,
maybe we need to fix or remove the list view?

Regards,

Tomeu

>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > - Chris.
>>
>> -walter
>
> Martin
>
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