[Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

[Thomas C Gilliard]

C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt
>> <christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any pattern will eventually run out of space. A space-filling curve
>> (Peano curve) might be interesting. There is an orthogonal question,
>>     
>
> It's not strictly true that any pattern will eventually run out of
> space.  The original layout code, as I recall, also had provision for
> zooming the icons out.  So you can shrink the icons down arbitrarily
> and there is no particular limit on how many you squeeze in.
>
> That said, a home view with one-pixel high icons is pretty useless.
> So this is just quibbling about a technicality.
>
>   
Magnify icons when mouse is over them like macintosh OSX?
> I did investigate space-filling curves of various types at the time I
> was writing the Sunflower layout.  I couldn't come up with anything I
> liked aestheically -- which just means that the opportunity is still
> available for others to come up with something!
>
> I'm not completely sold that panning and zooming is the right "answer"
> to the problem.  There are (at least) two other orthogonal axes:
> nesting, and search.  The iPhone interface chose to add first search,
> and then nesting, rather than to simply add extra "panes" to the left,
> right, up, down, etc.  This isn't to say that we must follow their
> lead -- just as a reminder that the solution space is not as
> constrained as it may appear.
>   --scott
>
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