[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

[Gary C Martin]

On 19 Aug 2009, at 17:50, Aleksey Lim wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>> [forwarded from christian]
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've attached two (annotated) PDFs with mockups of the issues we  
>> talked
>> about on Sunday. The first has several options for the Journal,
>> exploring various toolbars, the grid view, and tagging; the second  
>> looks
>> at simple vs. complex toolbars in activities.
>>
>> Make sure you read the annotations, and let me know what you think.  
>> Once
>> we have reached a consensus, I can generate PNGs and post to the  
>> wiki.
>>
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> PS. Let's also figure out a time to chat, unless email seems  
>> sufficient.
>> I can be available for a short time around 10am (EST)/2pm (UTC)  
>> tomorrow
>> morning, if necessary.
>>
>> [1] http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/090818_journal_thumbnails.pdf
>> [2] http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/090818_toolbars.pdf
>
> I think we could save additional space by moving details button to  
> another
> place, instread of thumb-1.png(attahced), it could be thumb-2.png or
> thumb-3.png
>
> And also regarding entries selection, mockups use checkboxes, I guess
> we need the same method in list view, or another option(I'm personally
> +1 for that) use in list and thumbs view Shift key for selection
> purposes.

+1 on the details button move.

+1 for dropping check box design (and using Shift key in the future  
for multi-selection, as it's an infrequently used advanced user  
feature and check boxes eat up too much space).

Regards,
--Gary