[Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:12:50PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
> 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

Well, I have around 14(including TamTamMini) activities on git.sl.o
to switch to new toolbars.. so you can wish me luck.

> 
> Regards,
> --Gary
> 

-- 
Aleksey