[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] multiple home views

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/5/2 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
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> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
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>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
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>>> After reading the old thread,
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>>> I see there was agreement on the problem, but no one discussed the
>>> solution / workflow.
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>>> I think multiple home views can complicate the Sugar interface.
>>> Overloading the favorites as proposed complicates things, IMHO.
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>>> Here are two other options:
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>>> - A School activity that is a launcher of other activities.  It can
>>> have collections like "Math", etc.
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>>> - Enhace the search entry: search for tags.  Add tags to activities
>>> like "math". Provide autocompletion.
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>> Yeah. I think either of these proposals are possible solutions, but at a
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>> (1) something more for teachers to learn (they already know how to use the
>> homeview)
>> (2) something more to maintain
>> (3) something more to design/code
>> (4) not clear they actually lessen complexity
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> And another thing :)
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> I am not convinced that searching by curriculum topic, e.g.,g searching for
> "math" is in line with how we want to encourage Sugar to be used in the
> classroom. A project-based approach is about tools, not curriculum. So, for
> example, if I wanted the kids to make a Fototoon, I'd want Fototoon, Record,
> Paint, Browse, Write, et al. on the desktop. Collections based on projects,
> not curricula, is what we should be promoting.

Yes, couldn't agree more.  That's why I was a bit concerned on IRC
when you talked about one home view per lesson.

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