[Sugar-devel] modified Home View

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Hilaire Fernandes
<hilaire.fernandes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 08/08/2010 13:59, Walter Bender a écrit :
>> See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Spiral_Home_View#Detailed_Description
>> for the latest screen shots. I made some changes to the way I generate
>> the Spiral -- I start from the outside rather than the inside to
>> minimize the visual disruption between the Ring and the Spiral. I
>> don't ever shrink the icon size in the Ring, but do so in the Spiral
>> once the minimum radius is reached. Perhaps most controversial, I
>> introduce an intermediate icon size between standard and small along
>> the way.
>>
>> Gary: I'll post a new patch to the ticket momentarily.
>> (http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2143)
>>
>> Comments/suggestions?
>
> Don't you need a way to recreate a taxonomy when the numbers of
> activities grows? For example grouping related activities in spiral
> segments and reinforcing this with common icon color scheme in these
> segments.

The reordering to fit a taxonomy would be orthogonal to however we
render the sequence of icons. I am not sure of the optimal way to map
a multidimensional space onto a one-dimensional axis, but we do have
category information in ASLO.

Regarding recoloring, that would be a major UI paradigm shift. But we
could perhaps use some other visual attribute besides color to
indicate commonality.

-walter

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