Features/Buddy Positioning

Buddy Positioning

Summary

Use the identity of the neighborhood icons (color or nick name for the buddy) to seed the position to get a more stable positioning in the neighborhood view.

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Current status

  • Targeted release: 0.86
  • Last updated: 30.06.09
  • Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Ticket 381 contains some more information.

Benefit to Sugar

Right now the neighborhood view is disappointingly random from machine to machine, reboot to reboot, or even just over time as the view (seemingly randomly) refreshes. If the placement of the neighborhood icons is based on identity, the user can quickly learn where to expect resources to be spatially in the neighborhood view.

Scope

This change will only affect the sugar shell.

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User Experience

The user can quickly learn where to expect resources to be spatially in the neighborhood view. The positioning of the items in the neighborhood view should be constant between reboots, refreshes and different machines.

Dependencies

The change is only in the sugar shell and does not affect other packages.

Contingency Plan

Will be deferred to Sucrose 0.88.

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