[Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

[Gary C Martin]

On 31 Jul 2009, at 10:54, Simon Schampijer wrote:

>> 1). I was hoping for more feedback before we lock things down, but  
>> it's
>> been pretty quiet. I was hoping to hack TurtleArt with a temporary
>> toolbar imitation and get some real usability input from kids, but  
>> not
>> sure we have the time?
>
> We land it today, Browse and Write are ready, so we can get feedback  
> on them. From the schedule we still have a bit of time. So I am  
> positive.
>
>> 2). Is it possible to have the "title entry" input field default  
>> width
>> set to allow for 9 icons on the right (this is the maximum needed for
>> current Activity designs), then allow it scale down to some min  
>> width if
>> extra icons are added? I would rather there was a little  
>> flexibility in
>> the "title entry" rather than have the "Stop" and "Keep" buttons be  
>> the
>> first to disappear.
>
> Looks like we are over this point, following the other discussions  
> in this thread.
>
>> 3). FWIW, I'm considering the "share with" icon should really be  
>> over on
>> the right (if sharing feature are present). So the far right icon  
>> order
>> would be "share with", "keep version", "stop".
>
> Same here.
>
> Btw - we went at the moment for eben's design. Gary, we could use  
> your design (with title entry in the top) and test it out, if you  
> think it is worth doing comparing tests.

Let's get feedback with what has been implemented so far and iterate  
on it if there are agreed issues. My main concern at the moment is  
that we have complicated the trivial Activity case, in that there is  
no longer an option for just providing a single main toolbar. Every  
Activity has to now deal with loss of canvas space and dynamic  
resizing caused by the secondary activity toolbar design (that's one  
reason I didn't like that path).

Who is the poor soul that's going to have to sort out TamTamMini, I  
vote for alsroot ;-b

Regards,
--Gary