[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Less confusing activities list

[Manuel Quiñones]

2014-01-24 Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
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> I worked on it for a little longer trying to make the star icons checkable, but there are lots of issues in doing so. In the end I think that it is very hard to implement and pretty worthless. Maybe a summary as a tooltip in the traditional design would be good, I'll try. Anyway, I really think the ticket is sort of fixed now; we now have check boxes in the journal. Also if you would like to see a bigger fix you can check out the sentence/expander view and the thumbnail view for the journal.

Yeah, I think the summary doesn't quite fit this layout.  It would be
nice as a tooltip, as Alan said.  But its a separate topic.

Tell us what's the problem with making the star icons checkeable.

I would like to see this applied soon, is a great addition to Sugar.

> The (very messy and not PEP8) code is here: https://github.com/SAMdroid-apps/sugar/blob/fb8ec62cf308236fa292dd2635d4071800b3f3e1/src/jarabe/desktop/activitieslist.py, if you don't believe me. There are some really funny errors that are caused when you run this :)
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> Sam :)
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've been working on the view for a little while now...
>> I've had a big issue with palettes (right click menus) and haven't been able to fix it (yet).
>> I had this random idea I had...
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>> When you right click on a icon it brings up this popup-ish thing. (This is only a work in progress as you can see by the tiny icon).
>> I'm not really sure if this is bad or very bad, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Anyway it looks very different to the journal, which fixes the bug.
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>> Also the pallet or the popup-ish thing may need to implement the staring because the icon view is written in a different way to the tree view.
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>> Sam
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>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
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>>>> I was looking at bug #806 (http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/806), "Activities list view is very similar to Journal view and users delete activities instead of journal entries".
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>>>> I was thinking we could fix this issue by adopting an icon view for the activities list. It sort of looks a little tablety, which is good considering some of the sugar deployments are almost tablets (XO-4). Here is a prototype:
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>>> Whoa, this is excellent Sam!  A very great improvement.  I like Jame's idea about the time. Using the time since the activity was last used is a more useful information, and avoids the odd issue.  I'm not sure about the need to change the top right corner icon.. this still looks like a list.  But maybe a more specific icon could be an enhaccement.
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