[Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the moment Sugar's enabling the freeform and circle layouts, but
> the code (jarabe/desktop/favoritesview.py) also defines (and then
> comments out) triangle, box and sunflower layouts.  The circle
> algorithm isn't scaling well as we install more and more activities.
>
> Any suggestions on an algorithm to replace circle with?  I tried out
> sunflower, but it's a bit messy and hard to navigate through.

I'm still a fan of the sunflower, but a spiral such as I describe in
the FLOSS manual maybe  a nice compromise.

See http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ModifyingSugar (towards the
bottom of the page).

-walter

>
> Also, should we re-enable the commented out layouts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris.
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> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
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