I created a walter clone of Write where I pushed (most) of these changes. (I need to work on the tables still.) Please let me know what you think. (I created an icon for the heading-style menu, attached.)
-walter On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > On 4 Sep 2009, at 22:56, Walter Bender wrote: > >> Attached are proposed patches to toolbar.py and widgets.py >> Seemingly pretty straight-forward stuff... but we need icons :) > > Sorry, haven't got to look at your patches yet, but here's the icons I have > so far... > > Here's a possible replacement "Insert Image" icon (if you like it): > > > > > > > Here's a primary toolbar icon for the secondary toolbar of bullet styles: > > > > > > > > Insert table icon is already in sugar-artwork, it's called insert-table.svg > and looks OK to me, but I can't see it being set by the InsertToolbar class > so it looks like we get a default low res bitmap instead: > > What we currently get is > > What we should be getting is > > > I'd be very tempted to use this for the Table primary icon (as well as for > the add table palette). The rest of the table SVG icons seem reasonable to > me (add row, remove row, add column, remove column): > > > > > > Here's a set of icons for paragraph style headings 1 to 4: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's an icon for the block text paragraph style: > > > > > > Here's my favourite attempt so far at an icon for the "Plain Text" paragraph > style: > > > > > > It's a tough one, but if you don't like the above, here's another try: > > > > > >> Plus, I haven't figured out where to put Plain. In the Headings palette >> perhaps? > > I popped "Plain" in the secondary "Paragraph style" toolbar (see toolbar > layout in text below), it's with the headings and justify tools so I think > that's the same place your referring to. > >> We'll also need to violate string freeze, I am afraid to include the >> Headings hint. > > Walter, there's no need to be scared ;-) > > Ohh, quick toolbar bug while I remember: The Undo accelerator key is mapped > to <Ctrl>+Q for some reason, so you can't currently quite Write with that > shortcut ;-) > > Regards, > --Gary > > P.S. Shout if you think I've missed an icon you need! > >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Walter, >>> >>> If I focus on generating need icons (and some order suggestions) would >>> you >>> pick up patching the Write toolbars? I can then move onto other icons for >>> Simon (and my own Labyrinth/Physics/Moon). >>> >>> Here's a first pass at the toolbar to get an idea of icons needed. The >>> HIG >>> has space for 14 icons max, so things are pretty tight here. I would like >>> to >>> move 'Insert image' out of 'Table' and onto the primary toolbar, but >>> that >>> put's it perhaps too close to the 'Stop' button (I'd like to leave a 1x >>> icon >>> gap if possible): >>> >>> [Activity] >>> "Title input" >>> {Share palette} >>> {Export palette} >>> -------- >>> Keep >>> >>> [Edit] >>> Copy >>> Paste >>> -------- >>> Undo >>> Redo >>> >>> [View] >>> Zoom in >>> Zoom out >>> (Zoom combo box) >>> -------- >>> (Page combo box) >>> -------- >>> "Search input box" <-- should have string "Search:" prefixing >>> the input box >>> Find previous >>> Find next >>> >>> [Paragraph style] >>> Heading 1 <-- need icon >>> Heading 2 <-- need icon >>> Heading 3 <-- need icon >>> Heading 4 <-- need icon >>> Block text <-- need icon >>> Plain Text <-- need icon >>> -------- >>> Left justify >>> Centre justify >>> Right justify >>> Fill justify >>> >>> [List style] <-- need icon >>> Normal >>> Bullet list >>> Dashed list >>> Numbered list >>> Lower case list >>> Upper case list >>> >>> [Font style] >>> (Font list menu) >>> (Font size menu) >>> >>> [Table] <-- need better icon >>> {Add table palette} <-- need better icon >>> Add row <-- need better icon >>> Remove row <-- need better icon >>> Add column <-- need better icon >>> Remove column <-- need better icon >>> -------- >>> Insert Image <-- have a better icon (see Labyrinth) >>> >>> -------- >>> Bold >>> Italic >>> Underline >>> {Colour picker palette} >>> ... >>> ... >>> Stop >>> >>> Seem OK? I can work on these a little tonight, but also tomorrow. >>> >>> Regards, >>> --Gary >>> >>> On 3 Sep 2009, at 15:21, Walter Bender wrote: >>> >>>> I think you'd get a +1 from both uwog and me. There are already >>>> individual icons for the bullet styles. Adding the same for the >>>> heading styles and then eliminating the drop-down menu doesn't seem >>>> too invasive. But we'll need to add a new string for the heading-style >>>> button, breaking string freeze. >>>> >>>> If we can agree upon the icons, I can try my hand at creating the patch. >>>> >>>> -walter >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Walter, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, have also popped them on the wiki page for reference: >>>>> >>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/New_Toolbars >>>>> >>>>> I haven't started on the Write toolbar polish and reorder yet. I'm >>>>> going >>>>> to >>>>> try and keep changes to a minimum (i.e we'd talked about breaking out >>>>> all >>>>> styles into individual icons so there were easier to find/use) as I >>>>> don't >>>>> want to get r- by Tomeu due to the changes being too large – but I will >>>>> take >>>>> a look at least, and maybe we can convince Tomeu to let it through this >>>>> late >>>>> in the release cycle. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> --Gary >>>>> >>>>> On 3 Sep 2009, at 03:35, Walter Bender wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> forgot to CC the two of you... >>>>>> >>>>>> -walter >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>>> From: Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:33 PM >>>>>> Subject: icons for paragraph toolbar >>>>>> To: "J.M. Maurer" <u...@uwog.net> >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe Gary or Eben can come up with something a bit more professional. >>>>>> But I though something like these would be more readily decodable. >>>>>> >>>>>> The H1-H5 icons (which I haven't made yet) would be under secondary >>>>>> menu under the list-sizes menu and the bullets, et al. under the >>>>>> list-none menu. >>>>>> >>>>>> -walter >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Walter Bender >>>>>> Sugar Labs >>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Walter Bender >>>>>> Sugar Labs >>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>>>>> <list-none.svg><list-sizes.svg> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Walter Bender >>>> Sugar Labs >>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> <toolbar.patch><widgets.patch> > > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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