[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Record UI

[Gonzalo Odiard]

A pending issue:
I think the start/stop button must be in the toolbar, and not in the canvas.

What you think?

Gonzalo


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> Thanks Gary.
> I think this design resolve the principal issue of my mockups, we can' t
> identify easily what function is in use.
> Perhaps, we can use a secondary toolbar to the less used options if
> necessary (quality, or new features like effects...)
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Gonzalo,
>>
>> On 18 Mar 2011, at 15:15, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>> > I have prepared mockups about the changes I want to do in the Record UI.
>> [1]
>> > The changes were discussed with Simon Schampijer and we take ideas from
>> > Tom Staubitz.
>>
>> Just wanted to post this Record mockup variation:
>>
>>        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Record_toolbar_mockup_(gary).jpg
>>
>> Key point is that it avoids using primary toolbar icons with secondary
>> toolbars for the three different canvas state modes. Instead it presents
>> photo/video/audio as three radio buttons, you'd mentioned you were going to
>> look at radio buttons elsewhere, photo is the one currently active. The
>> quality/timer/duration options are provided in the primary toolbar, but
>> would disable/ghost if the current mode does not support that setting.
>> Record and fullscreen widgets are back in the canvas as per original design,
>> as is the choice of a black canvas colour. I'm missing the info/detail view
>> widgets in this mockup (could use the original 'i' placement on the canvas,
>> or badge the thumbs).
>>
>> Main cons. with this design are the use of text widgets in the toolbar,
>> longer text translations could cause the toolbar to overflow. There's also
>> less space options for adding new features – your mockup showed things like
>> Effects: Sepia in a secondary toolbar – though these are likely more post
>> process effects you might or might not want to enable/disable after making a
>> recording (so could be buttons in the edit or possibly view sub-toolbars).
>>
>> Just food for thought – I'm trying to avoid the design issue re:'tools
>> with secondary toolbars that also trigger a canvas mode state change' issue.
>> If you think this might be the right path for Record, I can try a similar
>> mockup treatment for Memorise, so it has play/create radio tool button
>> canvas states.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Gonzalo
>> >
>> > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Godiard/Record/NewToolbar
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