[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Filter in home view

[Simon Schampijer]

On 08/15/2011 11:59 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> As discussed in Design Team meeting, I have tested using alpha to filter in
> the neighborhood view,
> and gray color to filter in the home view.
>
> I do not have a preference here. Tell my what you think.
>
> Attached are images and patches.
> The alpha for unselected items is 0.2, but we can play with this value, I
> really do not know
> what can be a good value.
>
> Gonzalo

It would be nice to allow search and launch rapidly, some ideas here 
from the GNOME shell:

You get to the search by using the 'windows-key' or by going to the hot 
corner [1]. When you type the number of items that do match are shown. 
The currently selected item (highlighted) can be launched directly by 
hitting enter/return [2]. You can go to the next item by using the 
up/down keys [3]. We could do something similar - just that we use the 
greying effect to show matches and we could draw the hover-over 
rectangle for the currently selected item that will launch immediately 
when you click enter.

Sidenote: I Feature I like here in the GNOME shell is the possibility to 
look something up in Google or Wikipedia directly (bottom of the page).

And to complete the GNOME shell tour: the search does as well look for 
items on the hard drive [4].

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/filter_search/search1.png
[2] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/filter_search/search2.png
[3] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/filter_search/search3.png
[4] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/filter_search/global_search.png