<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Sam Parkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Tony,<span class=""><br><br>On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Tony Anderson <<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Sam<br>
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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 <br>
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 <br>
to open up the 'palette' This is done well on the standard toolbar.
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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.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I think that if we make palettes right click only, we loose an important discoverability aspect. Do you find the hover-to-open helpful or harmful to discoverability in your experience?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1. I implore you not to make any aspect of the interface depend upon right click. It should always be an accelerator, but nothing more. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>I also think that the homeview palettes are a special case. We aren't going to be able to add more items or elaberation to the running activity palettes, or the buddy palettes. If we wanted to make the journal more intergrated with the homeview, couldn't we just replace the homeview with an enhanced journal? (Did we discuss this on list? [1])</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think a lot could be done in that space. Love to see some concrete proposals. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>I find the idea of a larger font size interesting. Is the current palette font size too small? It is also important to remember that any font size increase makes the distance you need to move the mouse bigger, which could be a negative.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-nohomeview-design.html" target="_blank">https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-nohomeview-design.html</a></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>
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Tony<br>
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<div>On 05/26/2016 12:44 PM, <a href="mailto:sam@sam.today" target="_blank">sam@sam.today</a>
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<div>Hi All,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I recently wrote this up, with a more detailed rational; <a href="https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-with-instant-palettes/" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-with-instant-palettes/" target="_blank">https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-with-instant-palettes/</a></div>
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<div>I invite you to comment on this. This could be an
interesting change for sugar (0.)110.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Sam</div>
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