Ideas for future Grid Reorderer Functionality

[Jonathan Hung]

Hi everyone,

The other day, Jess, James, and I were discussing the grid reorderer and we
started to talk about some things we'd like to see in the component.
Currently, Grid Reorderer feels like the middle-child of the reorderer
family: ignored and overlooked (no offense to any middle children in this
mailing list ;-).

Hopefully with some new features, the grid reorderer can come of age.

Attached are some short wireframes demonstrating some new interactions and
use cases:

Image 02: Two different methods of moving objects - ordered and unordered.
Image 03: Custom rules governing movement.
Image 04: Dynamic grids.
Image 05: Objects rearranged on a grid.
Image 06: Locked objects in a grid.

I have written a wiki page giving a little more description for these
images:
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Grid+Reorderer+-+Extending+Functionality

I'd like to hear what other ideas people have for the grid reorderer.
Possible interactions, use cases, weird and wacky - let's hear them!

Developers on this list, please chime in with their thoughts on how these
interactions can be implemented.

Have a great day!

- Jonathan.
---
Jonathan Hung / jhung at ocad.ca <jhung.utoronto at gmail.com>
IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
Fax: (416) 977-9844
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20101202/21963801/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: grid-reorderer-2-02.png
Type: image/png
Size: 8424 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20101202/21963801/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: grid-reorderer-2-03.png
Type: image/png
Size: 10502 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20101202/21963801/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: grid-reorderer-2-04.png
Type: image/png
Size: 3580 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20101202/21963801/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: grid-reorderer-2-05.png
Type: image/png
Size: 6895 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20101202/21963801/attachment-0003.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: grid-reorderer-2-06.png
Type: image/png
Size: 7862 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20101202/21963801/attachment-0004.png>