[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Visual clue about secondary options

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Gonzalo,
>
>
> On 13 Aug 2012, at 16:38, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> Looking at the ticket SL #3752 [1] "Add page-based viewing functionality"
> I found again a old problem we have not solved.
>
> If one button have a menu, is displayed pressing the secondary button,
> but the user does not have any clue about the existence of this menu.
> In the toolbar, when a button have a sub-toolbar attached, a triangle is
> displayed,
> and I think works ok.
>
> Can we implement a similar visual signal to show there are a menu
> available
> if the user press the secondary button?
> With the use of touch, will be more difficult to discover these options.
>
>
> +1, though we do have to consider how many places will need that extra
> little visual e.g. every AP, Ad-Hoc, Buddy, Activity icon in all the shell
> views, Pretty much every icon on all Frame sides except for the zoom level
> icons. That is a lot of little arrows all over the UI.For the white canvas
> area, it could be not too visually messy if the canvas arrows were in a
> pale grey rather than black.
>
>
+1 Grey can work with white background and with black background.



> My general goal for this has been to try and convince developers NOT to
> overload icons with both primary and secondary button actions. Buttons with
> palette entries should generally always just open their palettes when
> clicked, and Buttons with primary actions should avoid having secondary
> actions hidden in palettes (with exceptions for advanced, or rarely used
> features where these users can be considered more experienced).
>
>
I agree with you, we should try avoid having action associated to primary
and secondary buttons,
maybe with a visual indication, is easier identify the cases we can avoid.

Gonzalo

May be something to talk in the next design meeting?
>
>
> Sure, I'll add it to the agenda, I have some of Simons touch related
> patches to add as well.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3752
>
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