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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Guys,
The favorites view, will change in every xo:

* Because the user select/deselect activities as favorite.
* Because the user add/remove activities.

The best we can do is provide a coherent order.
Alphabetical using the localized numbers and the same order than in the
list view,
is the best in my opinion.

I can't see the value of have a screenshot with the icons in the same order
than a documentation. Specially when we can't achieve have a updated
documentation since Sugar 0.82 ... :/

Gonzalo


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Martin, could you clarify this example a little more,
> > did you have some specific documentation task in mind?
>
> I want to clarify that I see this patch as a big improvement, even
> with localized sorting. +100.
>
> We often prepare some screenshots for documentation (or the Sugar
> documentation sprint does). Because Sugar is icon-oriented (and light
> on strings) in the UI those screenshots are used and reused in
> documentation most of the time.
>
> In my experience, most local documentation efforts are a very quick
> "remix" of existing documentation. First-time deployments don't even
> have XOs in advance for the documentation team to get screenshots. If
> they have XOs, they often lack the expertise (they are first-time
> deployments, after all!). Gonzalo has seen this first-hand.
>
> With the proposed patch + non-localized strings for fav view sorting
> the home view remains (mostly) stable across all languages. Yes, it
> changes if you add/remove/replace activities, but only slightly. The
> relative position of activity icons remains mostly stable.
>
> With the proposed patch sorting on localized strings for fav view,
> each lang "randomizes" the sorting. Not so good, in my book, but not
> the end of the world either.
>
> Couple more notes
>
>  - I completely support localized names sorting for list view.
>
>  - For fav view the "best" sorting would be a fixed, OS build-time
> configurable sorting to group/order activities.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> martin - who worries too much about a sorting scheme kids immediately
> disable using the "wherever I want it to be" view.
> --
>  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>  martin at laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
>  - ask interesting questions
>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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>



-- 
Gonzalo Odiard
SugarLabs Argentina
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