Improvements to navigation in Restricted mode of Spiral

[ksraj123]

Spiral in homeview has a Restricted mode for small screen size devices. Buttons for showNextRestrictedList and showPreviousRestrictedList are there in the Restricted Mode to navigate through the list and locate the activity of choice, but it leads to bad user experience as several clicks might be needed to locate any activity. I feel having the ability to scroll the spiral will improve the user experience specially for touch based small screen size devices like mobile phones.

This is what the Restricted mode currently looks like -

I am currently working on this issue.

There might be several bugs or possible improvements in the PR associated with this issue right now. Opening this issue and the associated PR to know if this is a wanted change? Requesting feedback from the community.

[llaske]

Hmmm. It could be interesting to provide another way to navigate but I think scrolling is neither practical, neither intuitive. May be a touch in left direction to go left and a touch in the right direction to go right? Like in Falabracman game.

[ksraj123]

@llaske Yeah, I get your point. Its meant to be used by children and scrolling is not really intuitive here. A half-baked prototype version of scrolling is implemented in #658 . Actually I think, a comment in the code asked for a way to integrate scrolling on the circle as well in restricted mode so I thought it was a good idea. https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dd3c58d56981e4dfa6d94601b95d7117a3bc9241/js/homeview.js#L332 Working on a different approach now, will send a PR soon.

[llaske]

I've tested https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/pull/658. Thanks for that but as I said, using scrolling is not intuitive and is not practical.

The comment you mention is just related to scrolling using showNextRestrictedList and showPreviousRestrictedList buttons.