[Sugar-devel] [SPAM?]: Re: [PATCH] Start filtered activity with keyboard

[Simon Schampijer]

On 11/10/2011 06:16 PM, Gary Martin 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?

I did not think about it yet. I thought about looking at what the GNOME 
shell is doing. Most recent use, might be a good fit though.

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

Ahh, I meant, that showing the rectangle (highlight) the icon is a good 
way of feedback. Just for the home view.

Regards,
    Simon