[Sugar-devel] 0.100 features update

[Gary Martin]

On 12 Jun 2013, at 21:55, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12 June 2013 22:47, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> as we are approaching 0.99.0, I would like to update the features
>>>> status.
>>>> Here is a summary of what I know about the features status, I would
>>>> appreciate if Walter and Ajay in particular could expand on it.
>>>> 
>>>> * HTML5 based toolkit for activities
>>>> 
>>>> Work seems to be progressing pretty smoothly here. It won't be completed
>>>> for
>>>> 0.100 but we will do as much as possible.
>>>> 
>>>> * Icon customization
>>>> 
>>>> No patch submitted yet. Are we still planning to land the feature?
>>>> 
>>>> * Integration with web services
>>>> 
>>>> Actively developed. Seems like it will make it.
>>>> 
>>>> * Multiple home views
>>>> 
>>>> There seem to be no agreement on the design. Not sure how to move
>>>> forward,
>>>> especially since it seem a bit of a sensitive topic :)
>>> 
>>> This is actually pretty important to at least one deployment. We
>>> should try to come to consensus here. (I am agnostic about the
>>> technical approach, but pretty fanatic about the pedagogical impact.)
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe someone summarizes the points of agreement and disagreement and we try
>> to restart from there?
> 
> There was some disagreement about the implementation since I tried to
> tiptoe around the existing code to minimize changes, so there was more
> redundancy than necessary. Easy to address.
> 
> There was dissatisfaction expressed about the UI design, but never any
> alternative suggestions put forward.

My concern is that we don't confuse people even more in the main Sugar UI, especially at the younger end of our users. Favourite/List view and Journal/Detail view already cause some confusion when returned to from else where when they are in an unexpected state. Do we have any mockups/sketches of what has been proposed to land?

Regards,
--Gary

> -walter
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