On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > On 19 Nov 2009, at 19:32, Walter Bender wrote: > >> Many of us love the Naming Alert, but even more seem to despise it. >> With this feature, it is invoked from a toolbar button instead of >> automatically invoked on quit. It lets the learning take notes >> repeatedly and at any time during an activity session. >> >> See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Write_to_journal_anytime >> >> This is a quick hack. We may want to revisit the toolbar integration >> and certainly need a better icon :) > > :-) > > The first thing that comes to mind is something Journal icon like (but still > distinguishable from the Journal activity icon), the original Journal with > pencil seems a good place to work from (as Eduardo already mentioned). > >> Comments? > > Yes, I do like the intent, though I'm not sure we have activity toolbar space > for another new icon. How about the whole dialogues content be placed in the > activity icon secondary toolbar design (I think Simon raised this once > before)? This would also make it non-modal, so you can add notes and interact > with your activity canvas without the 'click the tick' edit cycle. The > secondary toolbar does scale to fit the content height, but you'd need to be > sensitive with the amount of space used as some activities will layout badly > if too much of their canvas space is eaten away. I could try a few mockups if > this approach seems reasonable.
My mock up was just to get the ball rolling on this. It is a reasonable fall-back if we cannot get a better solution implemented in time for 0.88, but I would love to see more ideas emerge. > One thing that does seem a shame is that this indicates the Journal UI for > adding details is not easy enough to use. Ideally we would have one single UI > as part of the Journal for entering all entry details (for both code > maintenance and design simplicity reasons). Activities could then providing a > quick way to switch there. When the current original naming dialogue was > first added I was hoping a way would be found to replace the new dialogue by > just switching directly to the existing Journal detail view instead. Perhaps > this should be the design goal (improving Journal integration/use rather than > new separate activity based dialogues). We could use a bit more structure (esp. in the tags section) and a rich-text interface (including images and audio) in the description field.) > Regards, > --Gary > > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
