[Sugar-devel] Memorize create icon

[Walter Bender]

+1

To whomever is going to make these invasive changes, there are some
rendering "bugs" in Memorize as well. Images should be centered in the
tiles; presently they are justified to the top of the tile. Also, we
should probably use a drop shadow for the text so that white text on
white image problems are circumvented.

-walter

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Bringing on list so folks can argue with me on this :-)
>
> On 3 Sep 2009, at 16:07, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>
>> On 09/03/2009 03:55 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> OK here's a possible create icon for Memorize. The idea being the
>>> "Play"
>>> tab tools all become first class, and all the create tools go under
>>> this
>>> icon in a secondary toolbar:
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --Gary
>>>
>>> P.S. Memorize icons are all quite large, but if you need to shrink
>>> this,
>>> look inside the .xml for the scale transform. Hard for me to be sure
>>> until it's all in together place ;-)
>>
>> Ok, I like the image itself. Where I see a big difference is the
>> following: In the old design, one had to save a game in the edit
>> tab, switch to the play tab and load the game there. Which, I see it
>> in my class is quite hard to explain. If possible I would like to
>> review the whole edit-play interaction. Maybe you have a good idea
>> how to handle all that workflow nicely? I will think about it, too.
>
> Aaaaaaaagh! It just dawned on me why we're having such a problem.
> Memorize breaks two cardinal sins, I knew there was something wrong
> with the Memorize UI but had never explicitly thought it through as to
> why it was a pain. The sins are:
>
> 1) Clicking "Create" tab does not just change the toolbar... it
> switches the canvas content! (booo, hissss)
>
> 2) Bad old days of Save and Load application style abuse, making no
> use of Journal state saving (no write_file() method being used)!
>
> So..... OK, here's some rough thoughts on sorting it out for the new
> toolbar design. Sorry it's no a simple/quick fix, and I think it may
> be rather controversial:
>
> 1) Clicking the (new) "Create" primary toolbar button should NOT
> change the canvas content. It should just reveal the secondary create
> toolbar.
>
> 2) Clicking the "Create --> New game" button should switch to the
> create editing canvas (with a blank question/pair list, the current
> game is now blank).
>
> 3) A new button "Create --> Edit game" should allow you to edit the
> current active game, clicking it would show the create canvas with the
> current questions/pairs. It could just use the pen toolbar icon.
>
> 4) The "Play --> Load game" button can be removed [users should be
> resuming Memorize game content from the Journal].
>
> 5) The "Create --> Load game" should be renamed "Import game" [this
> allows importing game content from a Memorize Journal entry so you can
> modify it in a new Memorize entry, allows you to modify/extend
> existing games while still keeping the original un-changed].
>
> 6) The "Create --> Save game" should be removed.
>
> 7) The "Create --> Game name:" text input can also be removed [the
> Memorize Activity title should now be being used]
>
> 6) The "Play --> Restart Game" should just be called "Start Game" and
> it should switch the canvas to game mode (if not already).
>
> 8) The "Play --> 4x4 / 5x5 / 6x6" should switch the canvas to game
> mode (if not already), and start the game.
>
> 9) The "Play --> Load demo games" should be renamed "Play demo games",
> switch the canvas to game mode (if not already), and start the game.
>
> 10) Stopping the Activity should use write_file() method to store any
> current question/pair list state to its Journal entry [this replaces
> the current need to save separate game objects].
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
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