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 ==Todo==
+=== Triage touch features ===
+==== Essential ====
+* OSK
+** Canvas auto panning based on input focus
+** Show Frame or OSK, never both
+** Hide OSK key on OSK
+** Show OSK button on device Frame edge
+** Sugar theme
+** Internationalisation
+*** e.g. layout covers our accent needs
+** Multilingual
+*** e.g. ability to switching between at least two languages
+** Landscape/portrait
+** Reveal on text input focus, auto **dismiss** on loss of focus
+** Don't auto reveal in laptop mode, only ebook mode
+* Text selection
+** Selection handles
+** Cut(?)/Copy/Paste/Speak selection palette
+* Drag scrolling support
+* Hide/show mouse cursor based on input method
+* Palette behaviours
+** Tapping icons with no primary action should instantly open full palette
+*** e.g. Right Frame edge buddy icons, central home buddy icon
+*** e.g. Access Point device icon
+* Up/down menu/combo overflow widgets need to be larger
+* Frame
+** Expose/hide gesture!!!
+** Button for top left (fallback)
+* Home view
+** Disable Activity icon dragging in fixed layouts
+*** e.g. allows easier access to long hold of Activity icon to access palette
+* Neighbourhood view
+** Remove primary action from AP icons
+** Remove primary action from ad-hoc icons
+** Remove primary action from shared activity icons
+* Journal
+** Touch & hold on an entry should invoke full palette
+** …And dragging entry needs to work
+*** e.g. to copy it to another volume
+* Combobox
+** Single touch of a combo should lock open it's palette and allow drag scrolling
+** Should not show blank space when previous selection was near the bottom of the list
+* Touch & hold == right click equivalent
+* Activities
+** Write
+** Browse
+** Paint
+** Read
+** Calculate
+** Turtle Art
+* Visual feedback for button presses
+** Generic solution - use a mouse HW cursor with alpha white 'glow' marking all primary touch events?
+** Existing GTK button down highlights work well in toolbars
+** Shell canvas area views
+*** Use grey round rect outline for presses
+**** AP icons
+**** Activity icons
+**** Buddy icons
+**** Ad-hoc icons
+*** Only really needed where there is no palette and/or primary action is too slow
+* Visual feedback for touch and hold
+** Animated circle timer?
+** Blinking grey round rect outline
+==== Ideal ====
+* Palette behaviours
+** Single touch should never trigger hover content
+** Touch and hold should raise hover content
+** Touching the icon of an open palette should close the palette
+*** e.g. Journal list sort palette
+* Toolbar overflow widget should be same size as Sugar toolbar button icons
+* Zoom to content behaviour
+** e.g. Browse
+* Frame
+** Activity Zoom icon (and physical key) should act like Alt-Tab
+* Home view
+** Improve layouts
+*** e.g. larger Activity icon usage where possible
+*** e.g. Increase separation between icons where possible
+* Details view
+** Alert dialogue needed for Erase toolbar button
+** Alert dialogue needed for Duplicate toolbar button
+* Accelerometer auto rotate based on rotation when laptop is in ebook mode
+* Activities
+** Physics
+** Clock
+** Memorize
+** Image Viewer
+** Abacus
+** FotoToon
+** Implode
+** Labyrinth
+** Chat
+** Help
+*** e.g. pick up web kit features
+** WikipediaEN/ES
+*** e.g. pick up web kit features
+** Maze
+* Drag scrolling
+** Smooth!!
+* Priorities UI redraw over other processes
+** e.g. don't stall the UI thread
+==== Polish ====
+* Smooth transitions/animations
+* Text selection
+** Feature extensible selection palette
+*** e.g. Activity specific formatting
+* Home view
+** New grid layout option
+* Make sure Activities and shell works well in portrait
+** e.g. toolbar button overflow in some Activities
+* Pre-light hover effects (remove for touch screen input)
+* hspan/vspan separators, make sure they are large enough for finger interaction
+* Activities
+** Record
+** Distance
+** Get Books
+** InfoSlicer
+** Jukebox
+** Log
+** Measure
+** Moon
+** Portfolio
+** Pippy
+** Ruler
+** Speak
+** StopWatch
+** Terminal
+** Typing Turtle
+** Words
+* OSK
+** Subtle key click feedback
+** Custom context
+** Custom key strips/extras based on Activity
+** Predictive text
+*** Context sensitive
+*** Locale sensitive
+* Activity start/resume screen
+** Remove start/resume palette
+** Palette options presented in fullscreen UI, before activity pulse loader
+==== Not in this cycle ====
+* Activities
+** TamTamEdit
+** TamTamJam
+** TamTamMini
+** TamTamSynthLab
+** Etoys
+** Scratch
 ==Done==