[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Frame Device icon Volumes

Gary Martin garycmartin at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 16 07:43:21 EDT 2012


Hi Simon,

On 16 Aug 2012, at 09:44, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> working on the 'reveal palette on left click' behavior change for the Frame device icons [1] I came across the following behavior for the Volumes device icons:
> 
> - when you click on the icon it will resume the Journal and show the contents of the volume
> 
> - if you reveal the Palette (right click or hover) you get the Palette (see screen-shot):
> 
> [Label]
> [Remove option]
> [info about free space]
> 
> 
> I think there are two issues with the current behavior:
> 
> - the primary action which triggers the 'show content' is not reflected in the Palette, if you bring up the Palette you can not find that action in the Palette, this is about discover-ability
> 
> - secondly as we are currently moving to the behavior for bringing up the Palette on left click for the device icons it makes sense to be consistent here, so I would remove the primary action from the button, hence on left click reveal the Palette containing the 'Show content' option like we have for the Journal as first item in the Palette

+1 to removal of the primary action, adding 'Show content' to the palette, and bringing up the palette on a left click.

Regards,
--Gary

> Regards,
>   Simon
> 
> PS: Maybe we can adopt the touchpad device icon as well [2]
> 
> [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-August/039013.html
> [2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/blobs/master/extensions/deviceicon/touchpad.py#line69
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