[Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:12, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 07/11/2009 03:44 AM, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> Hi Aleksey,
>>
>> On 10 Jul 2009, at 16:19, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/toolbars
>>> there is simle example in examples/toolbar.py
>>>
>>> Does it satisfy mockups?
>>
>> Sugar-jhbuild is broken for me just now so can't look/test :-( Is this
>> toolbar example work for the Journal, Browse (tabs treatment), or the
>> main system wide Sugar toolbars (BTW: I'm making some new mock-ups of
>> them just now)?
>
> for reference: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/New_Toolbar_Design
> eben's mockups: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Toolbars
>
> I had a brief look at the code. Looks like a great start and proof of
> concept. What I think we should do now is (in the order):
>
> a) DESIGN: discuss the design further and get some mockups together, one
> question that came up is: do we always have a one line secondary tool
> bar? How would more complex widgets like the color chooser look like
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:ColorToolButton.png ? Or would they
> open from the secondary palette? Maybe we should step through some of
> the activities and just remodel them to see what would work and find out
> about the edge cases (think gary is already working on that)
>
> b) API: we need a rock solid API. This is public API and will be used by
> all the activity authors, so very important to get this right - so we do
> not need to change it again afterwards
>
> c) IMPLEMENTATION: we have the proof of concept, we should check if we
> would be easier to create a custom widget, see what parts can be moved
> to the theme so we do not have to work around issues in the code
>
> Sounds good? Comments?

Sounds very good!

Another possibility is having Aleksey working on converting Write to
the new toolbar and getting frequent feedback about it. Suggesting
Write here because it has a crowded toolbar, could be the journal as
well because we already have mockups.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks,
>    Simon
>
>
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