[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Sort the activities in the home in alphabetic order

[Manuel Quiñones]

2012/10/4 Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>:
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> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>> > We are sorting by localized name.
>> > It's true than the order will be different if you use a different
>> > language,
>> > but we think is better for the users.
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>> Less consistency in icon location better? How?
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> You have less consistency only if you change the language.
> 99.9% of our users will not do it,
> and will prefer have a consistent order = alphabetic.
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> "Navegar" is after "Medir", does not have sense have it sorted as "Browse"
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> Have sense use the same order in the listview and in the favorites view too.

In internal discussions with Gary and Simon I gave +1 for alphabetic
ordering in list view, and -1 for favs view.  My cons were: 1.
inconsistency between languages for first boot layout, 2. icons
displacement while switching language 3. I like how new added
activities appear right at the top of the buddy icon head.  I think
alpha ordering have no sense in only-icons views.

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