On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It might be useful to expose this calculated value somewhere (control > panel?), because it sounds kind of flaky (nonobvious, nondiscoverable, > limiting, non-deterministic) to me to have this limit. If we intend > this limit to actually be hit often, perhaps it would make sense to > expose it to the user in the mesh view (an icon + textbox > right-justified in the toolbox? I'm thinking firefox's search bar, > though this should not be used that much...perhaps it should only > appear if the activity/buddy search results are limited?)?
This is up to Eben, but a preference doesn't make a lot of sense to me here, as long as we have a fixed size view. You can only fit a certain number of items in it, assuming it's correctly calculated I see no reason for the user to want to tweak it. Unfortunately I'm now thinking that we might not be able to calculate a limit, because it depends on the number of activities, buddies and buddies per activity and hence it keeps changing. Another possible approach is to set an arbitrary (configurable?) limit of buddies/activities related to network scalability and make the mesh view scrollable (a la google maps). Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
