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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

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.
>
> Regards,
>   Simon
>
>
Yes. I did it in this way, because is the simplest from a point of view of
the implementation.
I also think, would be good display in any way to the user, the fact he is
enabled to start the activity,
maybe putting the complete name in the filter, or highlighting the icon.
But is not obvious what is the best, we already have the highlight with the
mouse onhover,
and completing the name in the filter may be is not ok.

If we implement what you say, we need highlight the default activity, and
implement keyboard navigation
to the non default options(up/down in gnome-shell). Actually, we do not
have keyboard navigation implemented in the home,
may be will be easy to do when we remove hippo.

Then, I think we should go with the simplest solution now, and improve
later.
This implementation is similar in use no to gnome-shell, but to
tab-completion in bash.

Gonzalo



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