[Sugar-devel] multi-homeview feature

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/6/21 Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>:
> 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

Yes, it is a good compromise.  Great Walter, I will go onto review right now.

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