<div dir="ltr"><div>As per the enclosed discussion on IRC, I'd like to get some feedback on the multiple homeview feature request. manuq: I am really happy this feature has landed. I think it is really great manuq yes!! manuq I think we should do screencasts to showcase the great stuff that's been added walterbender manuq: now that background has landed, I'll work on multi-homeview. Also an important feature manuq walterbender: is there a feature page for multi homes? manuq walterbender: I'm less confident on multi homes.. I would like to know user cases, feedback from deploys, and a discussion about the workflow manuq I fear it can complicate sugar too much walterbender manuq: there is a very important use case: teachers want control over the desktop in the classroom walterbender manuq: so the simple solution is one desktop for school and one for the user walterbender manuq: this was asked for in Peru and Australia walterbender manuq: in Peru, because teachers found the varied desktops confusing, they wouldn't let kids add apps walterbender in Audtralia, they'd like to set the desktop per lesson manuq ouch walterbender manuq: so I think this is actually quite important manuq one desktop per lesson? uff walterbender manuq: I spoke with gonzalo_odiard_ about adding a feature to his share activity to let the teacher set the desktop walterbender manuq: but all of these things would suggest we want the kids to have an independent desktop walterbender hence the feature manuq that can be resolved with an activity.. a launcher activity with a collection of activity icons maybe? gonzalo_odiard_ walterbender, anyway, the multiple desktop feature deserve more discussion on the ml walterbender manuq: and yes, there is a feature page kicking around for this [1] manuq gonzalo_odiard_: +1 manuq walterbender: great walterbender manuq, gonzalo_odiard_ the feature was proposed a long time ago and implemented 6 months ago. gonzalo_odiard_ walterbender, i know manuq walterbender: let's open a thread so everyone can speak walterbender manuq, gonzalo_odiard_ how do you suggest we get the discussion going? walterbender seems there has been ample opportunity walterbender many emails sent walterbender but I am happy to open the door yet again manuq walterbender: sorry I don't remember the discussions gonzalo_odiard_ walterbender, i looked at the implementation and was not very good neither manuq walterbender: so maybe add a new thread with links to the old discussions walterbender gonzalo_odiard_: that is a different issue walterbender manuq: I'll post this discussion, with links to the list and we can continue the discussion [2] gonzalo_odiard_ walterbender, but is important too manuq great walterbender gonzalo_odiard_: undoubtedly it is important. manuq at first glance, I think a launcher activity with collections of activities can be a better solution manuq so you can have a "math" collection for example gonzalo_odiard_ manuq, walterbender, right now we have a configuration for the activities a deployment don't want be deleted by the kids. we can extend that to have other collections configured. then we can have activities asociated to math, arts, science.... gonzalo_odiard_ and we can use that info to populate different desktops gonzalo_odiard_ (maybe showing different background images?) walterbender now were really are making things complicated walterbender I think this direction makes too many assumptions about how things work in the classroom walterbender let's keep it simple manuq an activity that doesn't mess the spiral, for example? walterbender gonzalo_odiard_: I really think you are over-engineering a simple request [1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views</a> [2] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-May/031266.html">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-May/031266.html</a> </div>-walter <div><div><div> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </div></div></div></div>