[Sugar-devel] [Design] Control Panel - improve space usage

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:52:56PM -0500, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> The search currently does grey out icons that does not match the
> search criteria. In the IconView/ListStore the normal way to filter
> the view is by displaying only the icons that match the criteria.
> Would that be an acceptable change in behavior here - other ideas?

No, not acceptable to me.  Marking the icons insensitive is justified
because the quantity and relative position of the icons never change.

I don't like how the icons cannot be selected if they don't match a
search.  This is an overload of search results and button sensitivity.
Marking the results some other way, such as by change to icon stroke
brightness, is acceptable.

I think the search is without purpose.  It only searches icon text.  One
can't use it, for instance, to find "color", "radio" or "discard network
history".  I wish the search either did not exist, or searched also
configuration items inside icons.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/