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

[Manuel Quiñones]

2012/8/26 Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>:
> 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.

Agreed.  The absent buddies are greyed out, this doesn't clash with
the filtering metaphor.  So for the filtered buddy icons the same
alpha reduction as the other views can be used.

Cheers,

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