[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Read toolbar - not enough space for TOC on little dimensions

[Simon Schampijer]

On 09/07/2009 08:20 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 15:09, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> with the new toolbar design I have the issue of 'loosing' the some widgets,
>>> with smaller dimensions (800x600).
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how we could rearrange that? Putting it in a secondary toolbar?
>>> Other ideas?
>> I think we should use only 16 cells on the toolbar (including the 2
>> spacers) and make sure that the cell size allows for that number of
>> cells on any resolution. Today we cannot do the later because the cell
>> size is determined by SUGAR_SCALING that can only be 72 or 100.
>>
>> More info here:
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Layout_Guidelines
>>
>
> Actually we may also have to consider having 12 cells. The reason
> being that activities like Read may be used for significant amounts of
> time in portrait mode, which means the width-wise screen real-estate
> for the toolbar is reduced even more.
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu

Sounds all good - thanks for the replies. In Read, for the moment I 
think we can move the biggest widget to a secondary toolbar.

Thanks,
    Simon