[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] copy-to-option in Journal (part of removing the keep button)

[Simon Schampijer]

On 07/26/2011 11:57 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>wrote:
>
>> On 06/12/2011 05:22 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Manuel,
>>>
>>> On 12 Jun 2011, at 14:39, manuel quiñones wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hi,
>>>>
>>>> 2011/6/7 Gary Martin<garycmartin at googlemail.**com<garycmartin at googlemail.com>
>>>>> :
>>>>
>>>>> Manuel, you mentioned in the design meeting you had some ideas for a
>>>>> clipboard icon, did you make any progress or have some suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I completly missed this thread, I'm attaching the idea I had in
>>>> mind for the clipboard, but I think the reusage of the scissors can be
>>>> a good choice.  I would prevent a real clipboard icon.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. OK so that's -2 votes for a clipboard icon (you and Walter), and
>>> +2 votes for scissors (you and Simon). Your new clipboard visual is close to
>>> something I was also playing with after Walter's comment that he though the
>>> icon should indicate/represent the left Frame edge in some way. I'm not sure
>>> though that this approach leads to a clear visual for the user to understand
>>> (we don't visually indicate places/sides of the Frame in any other cases).
>>> Let's see if we get any more feedback from others, but Simon might want to
>>> go ahead land a version with the scissors visual if he's ready.
>>>
>>>   And I tried another design for the duplicate icon, the two objects side
>>>> by side.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes I like it. More I think than the version I did as it is more visually
>>> distinct, especially as the Copy_to and Duplicate icons will sit right next
>>> to each other. I've removed the inkscape XML, tidied the code a little and
>>> added in the fill/stroke entities for user colour, happy to go with this if
>>> there are no other objections:
>>>
>>
>> I went ahead with the design proposal (use of the scissor icon for the
>> clipboard icon and an extra option for the duplicate option) and rebased my
>> code. However I run into a few issues I want to explain with the screenshots
>> attached.
>>
>> device.png (the option displayed for a a file on a external device): Do we
>> display the duplicate option there as well (duplicate a file on an external
>> device)? How is it colored if - black and white because it is not 'owned'?
>> We miss here the Journal as an option for the file to be copied to, that can
>> be added.
>>
>> Journal.png: How does the coloring of the clipboard icon looks like? As it
>> is only made for one color, coloring it looks strange. Use Manu's icon
>> instead? Make it black and white? Change the icon to support double color?
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Simon
>
>
> Perhaps these comments from
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-June/031817.html
> were missed:

Thanks Fred for your comments. Yes, I have seen the comments. From the 
clarity I prefer the scissor icon that is why I went ahead with it. But 
I like Manu's icon as well, let's just decide which one we pick. Maybe 
Gary can say a final word.

Regards,
    Simon