[Sugar-devel] [RFA] Feature freeze break: Terminal

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 09/08/2009 06:38 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>
>> On 7 Sep 2009, at 23:32, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/07/2009 08:28 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> The super awesome Simon has been kind enough to port the Terminal code
>>>> to support the new toolbar functionality. Patch at
>>>>
>>>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/terminal/repos/toolbars/commits/27a1fb2ca3e0d78f581b077d05843db02df393cb
>>>>
>>>> My tests with the code in sugar-jhbuild indicate no regressions.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sayamindu
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do people think it is better to have the tabs at the top or at the
>>> bottom?
>>
>> What ever the choice, we should have all activities conform to the same
>> standard ;-p
>>
>> Now we have the new tab-less toolbar designs, my vote would be for real
>> canvas content tabs to be at the top – but I do understand that it'll
>> take a while for many activities to use the new toolbar design and that
>> this may cause some transitional confusion. Perhaps we should wait and
>> move canvas tabs in the next 0.88 release cycle so that the vast
>> majority of Activities have had their old style toolbars-with-tabs
>> replaced?
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>
> As we discussed in irc today, we should have the tabs at the top.
>

Ok - going ahead with that at the moment.

> Sayamindu, if the strings (add, remove) are an issue, please just move back
> to the old strings.

I'm reverting to the old strings for now - will switch to new string
as soon as string freeze gets over (given that the existing strings
are not wrong, but could just do with a bit of polishing).

Thanks,
Sayamindu

-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]