[Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

[Walter Bender]

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). I'll upload a version running on the XO
soon as I get a chance.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/f/f0/Spiral-home-view.png

-walter

>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
> One Laptop Per Child
>



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Walter Bender
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