[Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

Thanks for forwarding this Gary. My feeling is that the views in home should
be motivated by functional differences, for example ring vs. freeform (one
allows positioning, the other positions elements linearly). To me, triangle,
square, and spiral seem a little to obscure to be in the core build--while
they are great experiments, I'm not sure I see a clear use case for them
other than experimentation.

I do think that there are opportunities for different views, but would love
to first figure out collectively what the functional differences/affordances
are that we are designing for... Does that make sense?

Christian


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 30 Jul 2010, at 02:00, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:57:35PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> >>> See http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ModifyingSugar (towards the
> >>> bottom of the page).
> >
> >> +1 on the spiral.
> >
> > I like it too.  I'm worried that it would scale badly, but Walter
> > suggested just tightening the spiral, and that sounds good to me.
> >
> > Is anyone on the Design Team reading?
>
> +1, have cc'ed Eben and Christian incase they miss this thread.
>
> > What would it take to move
> > forward with (a) including spiral, and (b) making it default?
> > Should we ask for input from deployments, too?
> >
> > Also, how would people feel about a patch that:
> >  * allows drag and drop when in a non-freeform view
> >  * if an icon is moved while in a non-freeform view, the current
> >    layout switches to freeform, and the position of all the
> >    activities is saved as the base for the new freeform
> >    configuration.
>
> That sounds reasonable as well. The auto-mode change to freeform layout
> when dragging could be easily triggered accidentally when clicking, so that
> might want to only fire once an icon is dragged over a certain number of
> pixels. The visual change of the layout toolbar icon, as the switch happens,
> will provide help some additional visual feedback.
>
> FWIW: Eben's original proposal (if I remember correctly) for dragging in
> the home view was to snap the icon to the nearest point on the fixed layout
> path and reflow the others to make space. Allowing organisation within the
> confines of the current layout.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> > (So, going to spiral, dragging one icon out of place would enable
> > freeform -- overwriting any previous freeform configuration -- then
> > going back to spiral using the layout menu would put all icons in
> > their spiral place, then manually going back to freeform using the
> > menu would restore you to spiral with the one activity you moved
> > back in the place you moved it to.  Hope that made sense.)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > - Chris.
> > --
> > Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
> > One Laptop Per Child
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