On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Simon Schampijer<si...@schampijer.de> wrote: > On 07/29/2009 07:03 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: >> >> Hi Simon, >> >> On 29 Jul 2009, at 08:55, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> >>>> FWIW: Picking the top level tool set is going to be a real tough call in >>>> a number of cases as we loose toolbar space for each extra tab, plus the >>>> activity icon on far left (essential for Activity recognition), plus the >>>> stop icon on far right (essential, no questions, no doubts). The >>>> features that actually fit in the remaining space may seem quite an >>>> arbitrary hotchpotch. >>> >>> Gary, I am not sure I get your arguments right :/ Can you elaborate? >>> What I conclude of all the answers, I think that space in the primary >>> toolbar is an issue. So we need to decide what to put there. Does >>> activity icon and stop icon sounds good to you as well? >> >> Sorry if that wasn't clear. Activity icon and stop icon are essential. >> The Activity icon is going to be critical for identifying what activity >> you are in at a glance, especially if the actual title name is hidden >> away in a sub toolbar. A downside if we loose the title in the primary >> toolbar is reinforcement of knowing what activity you are in (say you >> are copy/pasting between two similar Write documents)... > > Ok, thanks for the explanation. The differentiation of the running instance > of two activities of the same type is a good point. But, does this happen > often? I guess many kids will run one activity of each type at a time, and > remember performance constraints ;p And one can use the frame to distinguish > the activities.
I often copy items from one open instance of an activity to another... e.g., grabbing a passage from a Write doc to paste into another. Keeping both open, as oppose to opening and closing is advantageous (I can alt-tab or use the frame to switch back and forth). But there is not an issue with names in those cases. > > Personally, I see more the issue of naming an activity, since as said in > another post I am not really convinced about the naming alert. > > One little thing I am a bit worried about, is that we miss labels for the > sub-toolbars. I hope the icons are meaningful enough for the users - but > then labels can be misleading as well, and many of our users can't possibly > read. Are there not tool tips? > > About alignment (attached is a snapshot), should we align the 'share button' > and the 'keep one' to the left that the way to get to this button is not so > long, when revealing the toolbar? > > Thanks, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
