[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Instant palette popdown - a usability improvement

[Sam Parkinson]

Hi Gonzalo,

I actually think this change unifies the touch and mouse design.  
Currently touch is designed so that a long press == a right click.  The 
touch event is also ignored if it triggers a palette - so that long 
pressing a button only opens the palette and does not activate the 
button

This design works nicely.  But some of the time it doesn't work.  Eg. 
long pressing the home view activity icons will launch an activity as 
well as opening the palette.  That is annoying.  I'm sure we can fix it 
though.

Thanks,
Sam

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Something to think about is the interaction on touch devices.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Tony Anderson 
> <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>> Hi Sam
>> 
>> I like the Google apps button on the Google main page and the menu 
>> button at the far right of the Firefox toolbar. They show as a popup 
>> and have
>> plenty of screen space for icons and larger font sizes. This could 
>> support a design in which a left-click always causes an action and a 
>> right-click is required
>> to open up the 'palette' This is done well on the standard toolbar.
>> 
>> On the Home View, for instance. I would prefer that left-clicking on 
>> the icon launches the activity (new start). The tooltip shows the 
>> name of the activity (and nothing else). A right-click can open a 
>> list of instances available to be resumed. Using the Google or 
>> Firefox style, the list of instances can look exactly like the 
>> corresponding entry in the Journal.
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> 
>> On 05/26/2016 12:44 PM, sam at sam.today wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> A while ago, I dropped a mention on the list to how many users 
>>> found the palette system confusing, at least in my usability 
>>> testing experiment.
>>> 
>>> I recently wrote this up, with a more detailed rational;  
>>> https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-with-instant-palettes/
>>> 
>>> I invite you to comment on this.  This could be an interesting 
>>> change for sugar (0.)110.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sam
>>> 
>>> 
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