[Sugar-devel] multi-homeview feature

[Gary Martin]

Hi Walter,

On 21 Jun 2013, at 13:18, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did a clean [1] up of Daniel Francis's Multi Home View feature [2]
> yesterday and in the process tried to address two issues:
> 
> (1) The original code had many redundancies. The new version is
> reasonably tight (although I am certain to get push back in the review
> process).
> 
> (2) There was some concern that this feature would cause confusion
> among our users (despite its being written in response to several
> requests from the field).
> 
> To address #2, I made the number of home views configurable. By
> default, there is just one home view, as is currently the case. A
> gconf settting is used to add additional home views. (In gconf, I
> maintain a list of icons to use for the view toolbar and to use for
> marking favorites in the list view.) A view is generated for each icon
> in the list.
> 
> I posit that this is a reasonable compromise: the default behavior
> does not change, but deployments that want to exploit this feature can
> use gconftool to set custom icons and views. (And since it is in user
> space, enterprising users can also customize the number of views.)
> 
> Reactions?

Great – yes that sounds like a good compromise while still supporting requests from the field for this new feature.

Regards,
--Gary

> -walter
> 
> [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/38
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views
> 
> 
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