[Sugar-devel] [Design] [Patches] New Toolbars in Activities

[Sebastian Silva]

El 16/03/11 16:07, Simon Schampijer escribió:
> On 03/13/2011 10:46 AM, Gary Martin wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On 10 Mar 2011, at 18:54, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/10/2011 01:13 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>>>> Hello / Hola,
>>>>
>>>> As some of you know I started working with Activity Central last week,
>>>> as an Activity Developer.
>>>> My tasks will be to improve our Activities and also I consider, make
>>>> life easier for activity developers.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking forward to sharing more of what we do and have already
>>>> signed up with the Activities Team.
>>>>
>>>> My first contribution is to update the toolbars in several activities.
>>>> In the process I've run into some design decisions. In particular, 
>>>> with
>>>> activities with few actions, updating the toolbar concealed the 
>>>> actions
>>>> behind a ToolbarButton (see Get Books, for example). This did not seem
>>>> right, so I took the liberty of moving main actions to the main 
>>>> toolbar.
>>>>> From
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/New_Toolbar_Design#Benefit_to_Sugar 
>>>> -
>>>> /"Make process of switching between toolbars more clear, use tool
>>>> buttons that are showing all the time (in main toolbar), i.e., having
>>>> Close/Help buttons visible all the time could be very useful."/ 
>>>> seems to
>>>> support my decision.
>>>>
>>>> I've updated
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/TODO#Activity_Feature_Requests 
>>>> with
>>>> the following.
>>>> Activity Git repo with patches Comment
>>>> Typing Turtle
>>>> git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/typing-turtle/typing-turtle-icarito.git 
>>>>
>>>> DONE. Waiting for merge request.
>>>> StopWatch git://git.sugarlabs.org/stopwatch/stopwatch.git DONE. Moved
>>>> Share and Keep buttons to main toolbar.
>>>> Help git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/help/help-newui.git DONE. Put
>>>> navigation in main bar (like in Browse). Waiting for merge request.
>>>> Distance git://git.sugarlabs.org/distance/distance.git DONE by dirakx.
>>>> Maze git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/maze/icaritos-mainline.git DONE.
>>>> Moved Share to main bar. Waiting for merge request.
>>>> Get Books
>>>> git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/get-books/icaritos-mainline.git DONE.
>>>> Moved book actions to main toolbar. Waiting for merge request.
>>>> Words - Working on iticarito
>>>> <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Icarito>13:00, 10 March 2011 (EST).
>>>> The UI can be improved.
>>>> Jukebox - Working on iticarito
>>>> <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Icarito>13:00, 10 March 2011 (EST).
>>>>
>>>> I'd appreciate some feedback and peer review - as well as attention to
>>>> the pending merge requests. Also on the dev workflow.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I'm happy to finally contribute code again.
>>>>
>>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>
>>> thanks for your work!
>>>
>>> I remember that we had defined some guidelines when using the new 
>>> toolbars.
>>>
>>> So if I remember correctly (Gary feel free to correct me) we agreed 
>>> that for simple activities the options can be moved to the main 
>>> toolbar. Some things should be considered here (can be seen in the 
>>> screenshot attached and the code is in [1]):
>>>
>>> - left should be the activity icon with the name in the palette
>>> - then the other options (title, sharing, keep) left aligned
>>> - the sharing button is made insensitive (but shown) if sharing is 
>>> not implemented (self.max_participants = 1)
>>>
>>> I think we have not writing those guidelines down yet ([2] does not 
>>> say anything about it and as well I could not find that info in any 
>>> design page). Gary, what would be the best place to keep this info?
>>
>> Yes, the new toolbar design is an addition needed for the Sugar HIG 
>> update/rework. Plan is to take a static snapshot (a fixed readonly 
>> document) of the HIG as it stands on the wiki, and then update/rework 
>> the wiki HIG. Thanks for the reminder about the special case for 
>> minimal/simple activities (I'll need to go back and dig out the old 
>> discussions).
>>
>> --Gary
>
> AFAIR, I did code the help activity based on the discussions back 
> then. This is the closest documentation I have :)
Its screenshot day.
In this case I also moved the Browse Toolbar items to the main bar (like 
I observed in Browse).

>
> Regards,
>    Simon
>
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