[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Read toolbar - not enough space for TOC on little dimensions

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 15:09, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with the new toolbar design I have the issue of 'loosing' the some widgets,
>> with smaller dimensions (800x600).
>>
>> Any ideas on how we could rearrange that? Putting it in a secondary toolbar?
>> Other ideas?
>
> I think we should use only 16 cells on the toolbar (including the 2
> spacers) and make sure that the cell size allows for that number of
> cells on any resolution. Today we cannot do the later because the cell
> size is determined by SUGAR_SCALING that can only be 72 or 100.
>
> More info here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Layout_Guidelines
>

Actually we may also have to consider having 12 cells. The reason
being that activities like Read may be used for significant amounts of
time in portrait mode, which means the width-wise screen real-estate
for the toolbar is reduced even more.

Thanks,
Sayamindu



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