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

[Gary Martin]

On 13 Aug 2010, at 10:46, Simon Schampijer wrote:

> On 07/31/2010 01:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:28 -0600, Daniel Drake 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).
>> 
>> The old design with the buttons in the middle always struck me as
>> non-standard in Sugar.
>> 
>> I prefer the new design with all buttons in the toolbars. If it causes
>> problems with Sugar 0.84, maybe we could simply mark the new bundle as
>> 0.86-0.88 only?
>> 
> 
> In this case I would use the old design (buttons in the middle) for 
> sugar <= 0.84 and use the new toolbar design for newer sugar versions. 
> As the activity toolbar (title, share "keep") has moved to a subtoolbar 
> [1] we do not have the space issue here anymore.

Just wanted to post agreement here with keeping the original button design for <= 0.84, and moving the buttons up to the toolbar for Sugar version that support the new toolbar designs.

I agree they are non-standard (but that was partly due to the icons/colour used), but the main issue with them I seem to remember was code that didn't work well at non XO screen resolutions, often braking the layout and making the buttons un-usable.

--Gary

> Regards,
>    Simon
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:0.86_Browse_new_toolbar.png
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