[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Start filtered activity with keyboard

[Frederick Grose]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On 10 Nov 2011, at 08:09, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>
> > On 11/07/2011 01:06 PM, godiard at sugarlabs.org wrote:
> >> From: Gonzalo Odiard<godiard at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> This patch complement the filter functionality in the home view.
> >> If only one activity is selected, Return key start the activity.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gonzalo Odiard<gonzalo at laptop.org>
> >
> > Thanks for the patch.
> >
> > Design question: your approach is that the 'start with return'
> functionality is only available if there is a clear match. The other option
> would be to choose one of the matches to be the default one (this is the
> behavior that the GNOME shell is using, go to hot corner and type 'fir' for
> example to see it). They highlight the default match, we could do similar
> with drawing the corner around the icon (like when you hover over it).
> Might be a nice idea to do this in general, actually.
>
> Yes that seems like in might be a nice extension to Gonzalo's patch. How
> would you take the decision on picking the default match, by most recent
> use, most frequent use, recent install?
>

First in the currently selected sort would be a good default.

       --Fred

>
> When you say 'nice idea to do this in general' were you thinking of the
> Journal search, and activity list view?
>
> --Gary
>
> > Regards,
> >   Simon
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