[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Record: icons for the toolbar that replace strings "timer" and "duration"

[Frederick Grose]

2011/7/25 manuel quiñones <manuel.por.aca at gmail.com>

> El día 25 de julio de 2011 01:37, Gary Martin
> <garycmartin at googlemail.com> escribió:
> > Hi Manuel,
> >
> > On 25 Jul 2011, at 05:12, manuel quiñones wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Thanks Gary for your support.  I'm with you, option 1 is the ideal.
> >> Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to be possible in current GTK.
> >
> > Yea, that's what I suspected, but thanks for considering it.
> >
> >> So I took
> >> option 2, at least for the moment.  Here are new screenshots:
> >>
> >> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/record_design/timer_sshot.png
> >
> > Thanks for the screen shots. Yes, that does work better for my eye at
> least – could you perhaps use the star placement of the 3 star version, and
> centre align the 1 and 2 star versions around the middle star of the 3 star
> version? (e.g. use the 3 star version centre star, as the placement for the
> 1 star version, and then place stars in the gaps either side for the 2 star
> version). That should give the 1 and 2 star versions some more comfortable
> clearance from the clock stroke edge.
>
> That is good feedback Gary, new screenshot:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/record_design/timer_sshot_2.png
>
> I will send a patch to Daniel then.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> .. manuq ..
>


I find the mixing of symbols here a bit troubling.

The star was proposed as a symbol for 'new instance' or 'new creation' as
that use has precedence in other 'create new' situations.

Now, with this proposal, stars seem to represent time ticks while there is
also the stopwatch to represent time.  With the center alignment, the
progression also moves in diverging directions, inconsistent with the clock
motion.

Seems there was an original suggestion to represent the start delay by a
star at progressively later stopwatch clock positions.  Was that
unsatisfactory?  If so, perhaps accumulating time ticks should be dots
rather than stars (like some simple progress meters).  Or the star should be
retained to represent the creation point along the watch edge, and dots
placed along the edge to precede the start, represent the ticks of time
delay.

Another set of symbols to consider is the media record, round button and
media stop, square button.  These could be placed on the stopwatch at the
start and stop angle positions for the recording duration selector, and the
media record, round button at the starting angle, following smaller, delay
tick dots, on the start delay icons (the watch pointer could also move to
the record start angle).

If there is a hurry to have some icon, the proposed ones might be considered
as stand-ins until a clearer set are available.

Thanks for the design work!           --Fred
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