> 1) I don't understand how larger collaboration groups would increase > scalability. I would think it's the other way around: larger circles -> > larger radius of unoccupied space -> less icons
Surprisingly, that's not quite the case. The groups provide organization, which makes visual parsing much easier. Moreover, the XOs within a given group can be drawn quite closely together, so a fair number of them can be packed into a fairly compact area. Check out the visual mockups linked below. In our early designs, we actually used a clustering algorithm (which is why the code is named "snowflakelayout") instead of a simple ring. This, naturally, keeps things even more compact (that's πrr to our benefit). However, even the ring alone makes the view substantially easier to parse, visually, thus allowing mode overall XOs. It's really the space between icons that's so precious. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Neighborhood.jpg http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Frame#18 For reference, I think the first link above has about 35 icons on it, and the latter about 45. The clusters in the upper right of each contain 16, so you see that if you had nothing but clusters of 15 or so people, you could easily display 90 or so XOs and their (6 or so) activities, inching close to the 100 mark (which is where I topped out my previous estimate). _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar