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

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 19 May 2011 01:22, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

+1. I sometimes have the same problem.


> (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).

+1 in principle. I'm concerned that we're moving towards an
old-fashioned 'folder' type organisational structure. The devil's in
the implementation.

Sridhar