[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

Gary C Martin gary at garycmartin.com
Sat Aug 22 15:16:38 EDT 2009


On 22 Aug 2009, at 19:50, Aleksey Lim wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:05:03PM +0000, 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
>>
>> You can try Thumbs view implementation from cloned repo[3]
>> or see screenshot[4].
>>
>> In comparing with mockups it has lack of multi selection and sorting
>> features, I heard that we are not in consensus on that(?)
>> * using check boxes of Shift key to multi select
>> * using title like buttons[5] or something else
>>
>> Also I moved details button from cell bottom to the left.
>>
>> [3] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/thumbs
>> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Thumbs.png
>> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Journal#10
>
> I've encountered another problem - I can't get rid of popups in
> thumbs view, since all workspace belongs to thumbs.
> I think we can do not auto popup palette and open them only on right
> click.

What is it like if just the thumb image rectangle has the auto pop-up?  
That would seem to match the list view behaviour where just the  
activity icon has the palette pop-up.

Regards,
--Gary


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