[Sugar-devel] [Design] BulletinBoard feedback

[Martin Abente]

I'm in :)

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Gary C Martin
<garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Walter,
>
> Finally had a chance to have a play with your Bulletin Board-2 activity
> [1][2] and just wanted to pass along some quick design related feedback
> from my first impressions:
>
> - The default view for the activity feels like it should be Thumbnail
> view, not Slide view. Instantly presenting a user with a 'Bulletin Board'
> like view of the activity showing numerous thumbnails pinned to the screen
> makes the activity intent more obvious. Slide & Thumb primary toolbar icon
> positions should swap if Thumb becomes the default view.
>
> - The canvas fill colour should be a neutral light grey or white, the two
> colour fill/stroke border frames around the thumb images are strong enough
> already to clearly see the owners custom fill/stroke colours. I was pretty
> swamped with some un-expected user choice of lurid colour fullscreen ;)
>
> - The 'Update description' tool in the primary toolbar is rather confusing
> with regard to the similar functionality and similar icon in the Activity
> secondary toolbar 'Description'. Suggestion; drop the primary toolbar tool
> 'Update description' and make the description text areas editable on the
> main canvas below each slide. It can have a subtle help hint in the input
> area where a description text is empty, tempting folks to interact (e.g.
> the standard Description icon with some hint text next to it, something
> like "Empty description" and a button marked "(+) Add description", as per
> an empty Journal search, or see Jukebox for a similar canvas use case,
> mockup here [3]).
>
> - Ideally the Title on the canvas would also support editing (to match the
> above behaviour) so the Journal entry titles can be modified as well.
>
> - [Bug] The 'Update description' tool in the primary toolbar was used to
> add a description to one slide, the same text was then in that palette for
> every other slide (the other slides had no descriptions of their own). The
> palette field only updates if there is description text already there,
> otherwise it shows previously displayed stale text.
>
> - In thumbnail view can a single click interaction switch to Slide view
> for that slide.
>
> - Is there any way to transfer a specific shared entry into your own
> Journal rather than just viewing low-res thumbnails, or is this out of the
> scope of the activity?
>
> - My expectation for the audio recording feature was that there could be
> an audio recording per slide, so you could navigate through and hear a
> description of each slide. It appears to be a single audio recording which
> is over written if you record again, requiring manual navigation of the
> slides if it is intended as a narration. If audio recording can be per
> slide, the 'buddy with speak bubble' icons could appear on the main canvas
> in the text description area, rather than the secondary toolbar, to allow
> playback of the different recordings from each collaborator for each slide).
>
> - [Bug] Audio recording only produced a series of clicking echo like audio
> feedback (tested on an XO-1.75)
>
> - [Bug] Main canvas does not re-scale or re-centre. Opening secondary
> toolbars pushes the description area slightly off screen, and rotating the
> screen causes a grey area of undrawn canvas at the bottom and the main
> content to partially disappear off the right side of the display.
>
> - [Bug] Still trying to examine this one so apologies for vagueness.
> Sharing issues using two XO-1.75 running latest 12.1 build 18 on a local
> network, with no collaboration server defined. Share from 1st machine with
> 6 item starred; join activity from Neighbourhood view on 2nd machine with
> no items shared; result is 2nd machine showns the warning about having no
> items starred; stop both activities; star a few Journal items on 2nd
> machine; resume activity on 1st machine; join activity from Neighbourhood
> view on 2nd; result, 1st machine still just sees its own starred items, 2nd
> machine see only its own starred items. The machine joining the other
> displayed the other in the right Frame buddy area, but the initial sharing
> machine did not see the other in the right Frame buddy area (I tried this a
> couple of times starting with different machines first).
>
> - [Bug] Given the above, I was not sure what the "Refresh" tool was for in
> the Activity secondary toolbar, I clicked it a number of different times in
> different situations (starring extra items in my Journal after beginning
> the activity, after trying to collaborate). From the wiki I guess this is
> intended for case 2 rather than case 1 (rescan of journal starred items).
>
> - [Bug] (After testing with a 3rd XO-1 on 12.1 build 18 I managed to see
> share working) Thumb view shows incomplete state if the activity is in the
> progress of synchronising with another's slides when you switch to it.
> Should show a loading or progress bar if state is incomplete (or a spinner
> if you're not sure how many items are to by synched). If the number of
> items is known, you could open blank thumb containers with spinners or a
> loading message in each so that the Thumb view layout is not compromised (I
> had one case where I had a single partially blank slide stretched over the
> whole thumb view and off the screen vertically some distance).
>
> - [Bug] Refresh has no visible effect, you have to manually toggle back
> and forth between Slide view and Thumbs view to see the extra slides redraw
> in the Thumb view.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Bulletinboard
> [2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4588
> [3]
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/3714/Jukebox_playlist_functional_and_informational.png
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