[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Neighborhood View: reveal Palette on left click/touch instead of a primary action

[Simon Schampijer]

On 08/16/2012 02:10 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote:
> 2012/8/15 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
>> Having a primary action for the icons in the Neighborhood View
>> like the AP icon, the Ad-hoc, the Mesh network icon and the icon
>> for a shared activity has never been a fully working UI design because
>> the result you get by clicking on the icon was not fully clear to
>> the user (e.g. I clicked on the AP icon to connect to it, when I
>> click again will it deconnect?).
>>
>> With the mouse you have a way of discovering secondary information
>> by hovering over the icon, this is not as elegant with touch. You would
>> need to use touch&hold for that but the 'failure' rate of
>> undesired actions is much higher.
>>
>> In long discussions with Gary we agreed on always revealing the
>> Palette on left-click/touch and giving the learner the
>> information to make his choice. We think this is the best behavior
>> for both worlds.
>>
>> For the SugarAdhoc Palette we make sure it has the connect option in
>> the Palette. Until now, the Palette did only have the connect
>> option shown when the device state had changed once.
>>
>> This patch applies on top of "Making the buddy icons in the Views
>> reveal the Palette on left click or touch"
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Schampijer <simon at laptop.org>
>
> Acked-by: Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org>

Thanks for the review, pushed as 682c6c2fdebb8dcc2ee16ece2330c4d840806273

Regards,
    Simon