On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I think you should revert to the original design. > > I agree that 'hiding' the action buttons away in a toolbar is rather > unfortunate :-( , but wouldn't placing buttons as in the original > layout eat up vertical space? Here are a few things to consider. > > 1. The original pippy layout had just the activity toolbar. However, > for the next release I plan to add an edit toolbar, which will create > a new 'tab' thus eating up some more vertical space. Work on this is > mostly complete. > > 2. I'd like to know how often are the buttons actually used? When > people code, they usually don't like to take their hands of the > keyboard and prefer quick keyboard shortcuts rather than using the > touchpad or mouse. However, the situation may be very different in the > case of students, and the positioning of these buttons in the original > layout seems to reflect that. > > 3. Not sure if this can make the next immediate release but I also had > in mind to have multiple tabbed gtksourceview windows rather than just > having a single window[1]. If implemented, this would eat up some > vertical space as well. > > Comments? > > [1] http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/pippy-experimental.png To conserve vertical screen space, consider extending the 'Examples' navigation tree bar on the left to include a separate tree block for 'My code' that would appear above or below the 'Examples' tree in a separately sizable lower or upper border. Code that would otherwise be displayed in separate tabs in your tabs prototype would, instead, be accessed by selecting a leaf in this tree. (Keyboard tabbing could be arranged to cycle through the 'My code' leaves.) Further tooling of the code tree could be added at some point through right-click-, hover-, & alt-key-revealed leaf palettes, which might show the code size, create, modified dates, or other useful attributes. Thanks for improving Pippy! --Fred
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