[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Record UI

[Gary Martin]

Hi Gonzalo,

On 2 May 2011, at 13:41, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> A pending issue:
> I think the start/stop button must be in the toolbar, and not in the canvas. 
> What you think?

Personally, I'm fine with having some widgets on the canvas, the start/stop makes sense to be there centred under the image. There was me... thinking you were going to complain abut the fullscreen widget composited over the corner of the image ;-p

Re: your comment on where to put advanced features. Yes, advanced options could be moved to a new secondary toolbar if space is an issue, perhaps with the cog icon (or whatever activity customise/modify icon we standardise on)? Out of the current options, Quality: is the only one I'd consider OK to move, Timer: and especially Duration: need to be primary e.g. "why did my video just stop recording after 2min?" If you are considering adding a range of new effects features (B&W, sepia, etc) at the same time as the toolbar update work, then a new icon with secondary toolbar space would be needed.

Regards,
--Gary

> Gonzalo
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Thanks Gary.
> I think this design resolve the principal issue of my mockups, we can' t identify easily what function is in use.
> Perhaps, we can use a secondary toolbar to the less used options if necessary (quality, or new features like effects...)
> 
> Gonzalo
> 
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> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gonzalo,
> 
> On 18 Mar 2011, at 15:15, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> 
> > I have prepared mockups about the changes I want to do in the Record UI. [1]
> > The changes were discussed with Simon Schampijer and we take ideas from
> > Tom Staubitz.
> 
> Just wanted to post this Record mockup variation:
> 
>        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Record_toolbar_mockup_(gary).jpg
> 
> Key point is that it avoids using primary toolbar icons with secondary toolbars for the three different canvas state modes. Instead it presents photo/video/audio as three radio buttons, you'd mentioned you were going to look at radio buttons elsewhere, photo is the one currently active. The quality/timer/duration options are provided in the primary toolbar, but would disable/ghost if the current mode does not support that setting. Record and fullscreen widgets are back in the canvas as per original design, as is the choice of a black canvas colour. I'm missing the info/detail view widgets in this mockup (could use the original 'i' placement on the canvas, or badge the thumbs).
> 
> Main cons. with this design are the use of text widgets in the toolbar, longer text translations could cause the toolbar to overflow. There's also less space options for adding new features – your mockup showed things like Effects: Sepia in a secondary toolbar – though these are likely more post process effects you might or might not want to enable/disable after making a recording (so could be buttons in the edit or possibly view sub-toolbars).
> 
> Just food for thought – I'm trying to avoid the design issue re:'tools with secondary toolbars that also trigger a canvas mode state change' issue. If you think this might be the right path for Record, I can try a similar mockup treatment for Memorise, so it has play/create radio tool button canvas states.
> 
> Regards,
> --Gary
> 
> > Regards
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Godiard/Record/NewToolbar
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