[Sugar-devel] [OLPC-AU] another Favorites View proposal

[Art Hunkins]

Your first suggestion is a particularly good one. +1

Art Hunkins
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Walter Bender 
  To: Bastien ; Gonzalo Odiard ; sugar-devel ; OLPC Australia list ; James Cameron ; Gary C Martin 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [OLPC-AU] another Favorites View proposal


  I don't want to coop the current thread about search, but I have one concrete proposal (for which I volunteer to write a patch if we have consensus) and one long-standing feature request that we should dust off.

  (1) I propose that whenever you go to the Home View, you end up in the standard view. The only way to get to the list view would be by selecting it from the standard view. I'd even go so far as to suggest that if you navigate away, you would return to the standard view.

  This simple change would take some pressure off the need to distinguish the list view from the Journal and make it really just for organizing favorites and nothing else, which keeps it simple. (Even an experience Sugar user such as myself gets confused sometimes when I end up in the list view... I repeatedly hit the home view button and type F3 to no effect and think there must be something broken.)

  (2) Multiple groups beyond just the binary favorites/not favorites selection. Lots of teacher (and kid) feedback about wanting multiple home view collections. This is more invasive, but if we really think about list view more narrowly, then adding this would be seemingly doable from the UI perspective. (One home view could be *all*, meaning we could even eliminate the need to launch activities from the list view).

  -walter

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  Walter Bender
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