[Sugar-devel] [FIELDBACK] New toolbar design

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

I did a little survey in the Planetarium pilot last week [1]. The 
subject was "Start new" vs "Restart" in the home view. Christian did 
provide a test case and I made a Soas version of Sugar that let's you 
change the behavior with a button in the Home View [2].

While of course there were interesting observations to make about 
starting activities one other user feedback caught my eye, too. There 
was a question in the survey: "What would you like to see changed in 
Sugar?". Kids are often not verbose about those things, though after a 
while one learner, said that she would like to change the "stopping of 
an activity" behavior. She said it was complex and she was always 
confused about it and that she had to ask me about it very often. Note, 
in my class I use Sugar 0.84 with the old toolbar design. I showed her 
the new toolbars and she was quite pleased about it.

This all to say, thanks to everyone for making this happen in 0.86! It 
is a great step forward for learners. And like Walter did suggest the 
other day, it would be great to move the old style activities to the new 
design. I highly encourage the activity team to do so.

Thanks,
    Simon

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployments/Planetarium
[2] http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso, 
http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-EN.iso