>> > 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? >> >> No more than before (as has been the design for years). > > The old design with the buttons in the middle always struck me as > non-standard in Sugar. > > I prefer the new design with all buttons in the toolbars. If it causes > problems with Sugar 0.84, maybe we could simply mark the new bundle as > 0.86-0.88 only?
There is another way around this. alsroot, bemasc suggested using a local 'toolkit' version. This can be seen implemented in the "fully-bundled" branches of flipstiks, cartoonbuilder, speak. The idea is to use a local toolkit copy so that all activities are consistent across 0.82-0.88 and use the >=0.86 toolbar. In the case of pippy, this means that the action buttons will always be visible on the main activity toolbar. Here [1] is an xo with the same implemented. This has been tested to work on 0.82-xo1, 0.84-xo1 (build 301), 0.88-jhbuild. Does anyone see roadblocks in using this scheme? [1] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~anish/Pippy-37-toolbar-fix-new.xo > You are correct, and also wrong. Alexey (alsroot) created a system called > "toolkit" that lets you backport the toolbars to older Sugar versions. > > """ > < bemasc> but could m_anish use an old version of "toolkit" to get new > toolbars across Sugar versions? > < alsroot> bemasc: yup, in repos like flipstiks, cartoonbuilder and > speak, there are "fully-bundled" brnach w/ "toolkit" > directory > which is new toolbars that work on 0.82 > """ > > Using that has the advantages of only requiring the maintenance of one set > of toolbars, and achieving consistency across Sugar versions. It has the > disadvantage of breaking consistency with other Activities on <0.86. > Anish > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel