[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on <=0.84

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 21:28, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On 30 July 2010 10:59, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think you should revert to the original design.
>>
>> I agree that 'hiding' the action buttons away in a toolbar is rather
>> unfortunate :-( , but wouldn't placing buttons as in the original
>> layout eat up vertical space?
>
> No more than before (as has been the design for years).
>
>> 2. I'd like to know how often are the buttons actually used? When
>> people code, they usually don't like to take their hands of the
>> keyboard and prefer quick keyboard shortcuts rather than using the
>> touchpad or mouse. However, the situation may be very different in the
>> case of students, and the positioning of these buttons in the original
>> layout seems to reflect that.
>
> Sugar has little visibility of keyboard shortcuts (is there even any
> documentation of them?) so I think its safe to assume that children
> will use the buttons a lot more often.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.graphics.toolbutton#How_do_I_add_a_keyboard_shortcut_to_my_tool_button.3F

Cheers,

Tomeu

> Given the changes you're proposing, perhaps the most sensible course
> of action is to drop compatibility with sugar versions that don't have
> new toolbars. Then you can change the design without worrying about
> the implications of space usage by old toolbars.
>
> Daniel
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