[Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:40, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2009, at 21:01, Gary C Martin wrote:
>
>> On 13 Jul 2009, at 19:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:16, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:14:33AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:29:08PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another possibility is having Aleksey working on converting
>>>>>>> Write to
>>>>>>> the new toolbar and getting frequent feedback about it. Suggesting
>>>>>>> Write here because it has a crowded toolbar, could be the
>>>>>>> journal as
>>>>>>> well because we already have mockups.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've taken it
>>>>>
>>>>> New toolbars in Write
>>>>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/write/repos/toolbars
>>>>
>>>> forgot to say,
>>>> this Write's clone needs
>>>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/toolbars
>>>
>>> Here is a screencast showing Write with the new toolbars:
>>>
>>> http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~tomeu/toolbars_aleksey.ogv
>>>
>>> Excellent job!
>>>
>>> Will look at the code next, maybe tomorrow.
>>
>> Hey wow that's looking like the toolbars are functioning great!
>>
>> Thought I'd layout their content rather differently ;-)
>>
>> I'll have a toolbar design mock-up for Write uploaded later tonight.
>
>
> Here are my image mock-ups for Write. All tabs are swapped out as is, for
> toolbar buttons. With no need to move existing tab content features about:
>
>
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Toolbars#Top_level_Activity_toolbar_for_Write

These look really great! I would like to hear opinions from people who
have worked with kids and Sugar. If they agree to move forward on
this, I think we can go full speed ahead.

Thanks for the great work,

Tomeu

> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> P.S. Eben, would be great to have your feedback on the mock-ups and
> Aleksey's work so far. The obvious design difference seem to be that I'm
> keeping the activity title input widget and sharing widget visible at all
> times; where as Aleksey's work puts these into a secondary toolbar and tries
> to use the extra space to expose more regular features at the top (Aleksey,
> FWIW would be much better if you could use the Activity icon instead of the
> XO icon for your Activity toolbar button icon – that way the top toolbar is
> visually identifiable with the Activity at a single glance).