<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello / Hola, As some of you know I started working with Activity Central last week, as an Activity Developer. My tasks will be to improve our Activities and also I consider, make life easier for activity developers. I'm looking forward to sharing more of what we do and have already signed up with the Activities Team. My first contribution is to update the toolbars in several activities. In the process I've run into some design decisions. In particular, with activities with few actions, updating the toolbar concealed the actions behind a ToolbarButton (see Get Books, for example). This did not seem right, so I took the liberty of moving main actions to the main toolbar. From <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/New_Toolbar_Design#Benefit_to_Sugar">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/New_Toolbar_Design#Benefit_to_Sugar</a> - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">"Make process of switching between toolbars more clear, use tool buttons that are showing all the time (in main toolbar), i.e., having Close/Help buttons visible all the time could be very useful." seems to support my decision. I've updated <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/TODO#Activity_Feature_Requests">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/TODO#Activity_Feature_Requests</a> with the following. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <table style="font-size: 13px; color: black; background-color: rgb(227, 228, 229); border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" cellpadding="3"> <tbody> <tr style="background-color: rgb(120, 120, 120); color: white;"> <th>Activity</th> <th>Git repo with patches</th> <th>Comment</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Typing Turtle</td> <td>git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/typing-turtle/typing-turtle-icarito.git</td> <td>DONE. Waiting for merge request.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>StopWatch</td> <td>git://git.sugarlabs.org/stopwatch/stopwatch.git</td> <td>DONE. Moved Share and Keep buttons to main toolbar. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Help</td> <td>git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/help/help-newui.git</td> <td>DONE. Put navigation in main bar (like in Browse). <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Waiting for merge request.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Distance</td> <td>git://git.sugarlabs.org/distance/distance.git</td> <td>DONE by dirakx.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Maze</td> <td>git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/maze/icaritos-mainline.git</td> <td>DONE. Moved Share to main bar. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Waiting for merge request.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Get Books</td> <td>git://git.sugarlabs.org/~icarito/get-books/icaritos-mainline.git</td> <td>DONE. Moved book actions to main toolbar. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Waiting for merge request.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Words</td> <td>-</td> <td>Working on it <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Icarito" title="User:Icarito" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(211, 211, 211);">icarito</a> 13:00, 10 March 2011 (EST). The UI can be improved.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jukebox</td> <td>-</td> <td>Working on it <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Icarito" title="User:Icarito" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(211, 211, 211);">icarito</a> 13:00, 10 March 2011 (EST).</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> I'd appreciate some feedback and peer review - as well as attention to the pending merge requests. Also on the dev workflow. Thanks, I'm happy to finally contribute code again. Sebastian </body> </html>