[Sugar-devel] icons for paragraph toolbar

[Walter Bender]

I created a walter clone of Write where I pushed (most) of these
changes. (I need to work on the tables still.) Please let me know what
you think. (I created an icon for the heading-style menu, attached.)

-walter



On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
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> On 4 Sep 2009, at 22:56, Walter Bender wrote:
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>> Attached are proposed patches to toolbar.py and widgets.py
>> Seemingly pretty straight-forward stuff... but we need icons :)
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> Sorry, haven't got to look at your patches yet, but here's the icons I have
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> Here's a possible replacement "Insert Image" icon (if you like it):
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> Here's a primary toolbar icon for the secondary toolbar of bullet styles:
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> Insert table icon is already in sugar-artwork, it's called insert-table.svg
> and looks OK to me, but I can't see it being set by the InsertToolbar class
> so it looks like we get a default low res bitmap instead:
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> What we currently get is
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> What we should be getting is
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> I'd be very tempted to use this for the Table primary icon (as well as for
> the add table palette). The rest of the table SVG icons seem reasonable to
> me (add row, remove row, add column, remove column):
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> Here's a set of icons for paragraph style headings 1 to 4:
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> Here's an icon for the block text paragraph style:
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> Here's my favourite attempt so far at an icon for the "Plain Text" paragraph
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> It's a tough one, but if you don't like the above, here's another try:
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>> Plus, I haven't figured out where to put Plain. In the Headings palette
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> I popped "Plain" in the secondary "Paragraph style" toolbar (see toolbar
> layout in text below), it's with the headings and justify tools so I think
> that's the same place your referring to.
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>> We'll also need to violate string freeze, I am afraid to include the
>> Headings hint.
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> Walter, there's no need to be scared ;-)
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> Ohh, quick toolbar bug while I remember: The Undo accelerator key is mapped
> to <Ctrl>+Q for some reason, so you can't currently quite Write with that
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> Regards,
> --Gary
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> P.S. Shout if you think I've missed an icon you need!
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>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi Walter,
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>>> If I focus on generating need icons (and some order suggestions) would
>>> you
>>> pick up patching the Write toolbars? I can then move onto other icons for
>>> Simon (and my own Labyrinth/Physics/Moon).
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>>> Here's a first pass at the toolbar to get an idea of icons needed. The
>>> HIG
>>> has space for 14 icons max, so things are pretty tight here. I would like
>>> to
>>> move 'Insert image' out of  'Table' and onto the primary toolbar, but
>>> that
>>> put's it perhaps too close to the 'Stop' button (I'd like to leave a 1x
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>>> gap if possible):
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>>> [Activity]
>>>       "Title input"
>>>       {Share palette}
>>>       {Export palette}
>>>       --------
>>>       Keep
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>>> [Edit]
>>>       Copy
>>>       Paste
>>>       --------
>>>       Undo
>>>       Redo
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>>> [View]
>>>       Zoom in
>>>       Zoom out
>>>       (Zoom combo box)
>>>       --------
>>>       (Page combo box)
>>>       --------
>>>       "Search input box"      <-- should have string "Search:" prefixing
>>> the input box
>>>       Find previous
>>>       Find next
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>>> [Paragraph style]
>>>       Heading 1       <-- need icon
>>>       Heading 2       <-- need icon
>>>       Heading 3       <-- need icon
>>>       Heading 4       <-- need icon
>>>       Block text      <-- need icon
>>>       Plain Text      <-- need icon
>>>       --------
>>>       Left justify
>>>       Centre justify
>>>       Right justify
>>>       Fill justify
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>>> [List style]            <-- need icon
>>>       Normal
>>>       Bullet list
>>>       Dashed list
>>>       Numbered list
>>>       Lower case list
>>>       Upper case list
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>>> [Font style]
>>>       (Font list menu)
>>>       (Font size menu)
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>>> [Table]                         <-- need better icon
>>>       {Add table palette}     <-- need better icon
>>>       Add row                 <-- need better icon
>>>       Remove row              <-- need better icon
>>>       Add column              <-- need better icon
>>>       Remove column   <-- need better icon
>>>       --------
>>>       Insert Image    <-- have a better icon (see Labyrinth)
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>>> --------
>>> Bold
>>> Italic
>>> Underline
>>> {Colour picker palette}
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> Stop
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>>> Seem OK? I can work on these a little tonight, but also tomorrow.
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>>> Regards,
>>> --Gary
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>>> On 3 Sep 2009, at 15:21, Walter Bender wrote:
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>>>> I think you'd get a +1 from both uwog and me. There are already
>>>> individual icons for the bullet styles. Adding the same for the
>>>> heading styles and then eliminating the drop-down menu doesn't seem
>>>> too invasive. But we'll need to add a new string for the heading-style
>>>> button, breaking string freeze.
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>>>> If we can agree upon the icons, I can try my hand at creating the patch.
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>>>> -walter
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>>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi Walter,
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>>>>> Thanks, have also popped them on the wiki page for reference:
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>>>>>      http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/New_Toolbars
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>>>>> I haven't started on the Write toolbar polish and reorder yet. I'm
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>>>>> try and keep changes to a minimum (i.e we'd talked about breaking out
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>>>>> styles into individual icons so there were easier to find/use) as I
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>>>>> want to get r- by Tomeu due to the changes being too large – but I will
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>>>>> a look at least, and maybe we can convince Tomeu to let it through this
>>>>> late
>>>>> in the release cycle.
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>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> --Gary
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>>>>> On 3 Sep 2009, at 03:35, Walter Bender wrote:
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>>>>>> forgot to CC the two of you...
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>>>>>> -walter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:33 PM
>>>>>> Subject: icons for paragraph toolbar
>>>>>> To: "J.M. Maurer" <uwog at uwog.net>
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>>>>>> Maybe Gary or Eben can come up with something a bit more professional.
>>>>>> But I though something like these would be more readily decodable.
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>>>>>> The H1-H5 icons (which I haven't made yet) would be under secondary
>>>>>> menu under the list-sizes menu and the bullets, et al. under the
>>>>>> list-none menu.
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>>>>>> -walter
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>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Walter Bender
>>>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Walter Bender
>>>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>>>>> <list-none.svg><list-sizes.svg>
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>>>> --
>>>> Walter Bender
>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>> <toolbar.patch><widgets.patch>
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
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