[Sugar-devel] Calculate toolbars work in progress shots

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Eben,

On 11 Sep 2009, at 20:11, Eben Eliason wrote:

> Looks great! The icons are quite nice.
>
> My only suggestion is that (still retaining the modularity!) the misc
> toolbar actually just be added as another secondary toolbar. That
> leaves the basic toolbar mostly empty, but that's ok! This is an
> instance, I think, where all of the basic functionality of the
> calculator lives outside of the toolbar, and each toolbar adds
> advanced functionality on top of that. Moreover, "misc" controls seem
> to be the worst suited for a primary toolbar, which should instead
> contain controls that are nearly always useful, or useful in all
> contexts.

Thanks, that's pretty much where I was at but wanted another  
opinion :-) The one exception (for the future) will I hope be the Plot  
function. I'd love to see that UI improved via a Secondary toolbar, at  
the least with a set of standard example graphs for folks to plug in  
values (now that matplot lib is supported).

Any suggestions for a "Misc" icon? ;-)

Regards,
--Gary

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
>> Here's a quick set of screen grabs of a patch for Calculates  
>> toolbars, I'm
>> making the code work for 0.82, 0.84 (keeping old style tab  
>> toolbars), and
>> 0.86 (new style toolbars). To keep high re-use and minimum changes  
>> of code
>> between the two toolbar styles, I'm using the same code for  
>> generating each
>> toolbar, and the old 'Miscellaneous' tab content is being shown in  
>> the
>> primary new toolbar design.
>>
>> Give me a shout if you have any feedback! I'll push my changes to a  
>> git
>> clone of Calculate later tonight (all things going well):
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
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