[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] search toolbar in Group view

[Gary Martin]

Hi Simon,

On 26 Aug 2012, at 10:35, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> to have the same functionality in the Views, I would like to add a search toolbar to the Group View. That is trivial in the first place and code can be shared from the Mesh and the Group View.
> 
> One thing that is a bit tricky to handle is that we use already grey icons to show that a buddy is absent at the moment. This collides a bit with the alpha representation when we do search. Is there some smart way to make that more distinguishable?
> 
> I know we talked once about a different search mechanism all together but maybe there is something we can do short term.

Yea ;)

OK so a couple of quick thoughts:

1) The current search design does _not_ grey out mis-matches, it reduces the alpha. So we do have two metaphors; buddy grey stroke for absent; full colour/faded alpha buddy icon for search. Searching for a buddy that is absent is the weakest visual case here, where you'd be left looking at a screen of faded alpha colour icons, and a grey stroke only buddy icon. I think that would still be a reasonable case.

2) The other option discussed was to reuse the grey rounded rect for the search hits, though this would clash with our mouse over/down use.

Regards,
--Gary

> Regards,
>   Simon
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