Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2010-01-17 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 01/15/2010 03:48 PM, Gerald Ardito wrote:
 Walter and Caroline,

 I have had a completely different experience with color picking. When we
 give the XOs to the students for the first time, they love picking their
 names and colors. It is not disruptive at all. The students report that they
 feel they 'own' the XOs more as a result.

 Just my two cents.

 Gerald

I must agree, I do not find it disruptive. The kids liked to choose 
their color. And with the new color picker, I think it even gets more 
value as it has not this random character any more.

Regards,
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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2010-01-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 as far as I know there are no more design decisions to make for this
 Feature.

I did raise a new question: should we eliminate the color selector
altogether in the initialization screen. The more I think about it,
the more I like the idea. I have found that having children choose
colors at the beginning is disruptive (although they enjoy it). If
colors were randomly assigned then that step could be eliminated. The
Control Panel could be used (at a time determined by the teacher) to
change the colors. Of course, we'd want to get more input from the
field, but I think this simplifies things...

 Can you update the Feature page, especially the detailed description to the
 latest state? Do we have the shortcut and is it possible to have the random
 selection? If there are open questions we can clear them at the design
 meeting this Saturday [1].

done.

 Detailed Description

 Buttons are added to either side of the XO icon currently used to randomly
 cycle through the valid-XO-color list. On the left is a button that cycles
 through the list in one direction. On the right is a button that cycles
 through the list in the other direction. Smaller XO icons to the left and
 right of the new buttons show a preview of the colors that will be selected
 if the button (or icon) is pressed. There is also a keyboard shortcut
 (Ctrl-Z) to undo the last change.

 Thanks,
   Simon

 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting


I will try to join the Sat. discussion.

regards.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2010-01-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 14:58, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 as far as I know there are no more design decisions to make for this
 Feature.

 I did raise a new question: should we eliminate the color selector
 altogether in the initialization screen. The more I think about it,
 the more I like the idea. I have found that having children choose
 colors at the beginning is disruptive (although they enjoy it). If
 colors were randomly assigned then that step could be eliminated. The
 Control Panel could be used (at a time determined by the teacher) to
 change the colors. Of course, we'd want to get more input from the
 field, but I think this simplifies things...

I also like this possibility. I think to remember reading that the
moment when children received their laptops it was a bit hard to
conduct them with some order. Removing a non-essential step may help
there.

Regards,

Tomeu

 Can you update the Feature page, especially the detailed description to the
 latest state? Do we have the shortcut and is it possible to have the random
 selection? If there are open questions we can clear them at the design
 meeting this Saturday [1].

 done.

 Detailed Description

 Buttons are added to either side of the XO icon currently used to randomly
 cycle through the valid-XO-color list. On the left is a button that cycles
 through the list in one direction. On the right is a button that cycles
 through the list in the other direction. Smaller XO icons to the left and
 right of the new buttons show a preview of the colors that will be selected
 if the button (or icon) is pressed. There is also a keyboard shortcut
 (Ctrl-Z) to undo the last change.

 Thanks,
   Simon

 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting


 I will try to join the Sat. discussion.

 regards.

 -walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2010-01-15 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de
 wrote:
  Hi Walter,
 
  as far as I know there are no more design decisions to make for this
  Feature.

 I did raise a new question: should we eliminate the color selector
 altogether in the initialization screen. The more I think about it,
 the more I like the idea. I have found that having children choose
 colors at the beginning is disruptive (although they enjoy it). If
 colors were randomly assigned then that step could be eliminated. The
 Control Panel could be used (at a time determined by the teacher) to
 change the colors. Of course, we'd want to get more input from the
 field, but I think this simplifies things...


I agree.  Picking a color first thing when you are doing a demo is great,
because it shows off the individualization of the system. However, when you
are in a class situation it is distracting and since some kids are fast and
others very slow at this task it leads to spread in where people are right
away.  It might be better to have it as something of an easter egg.
Something they can explore.

My one concern is will we have rebellion? Kids who just can't stand having
pink and purple or just can't stand the fact that someone else has their
favorite colors.  That might be even more disruptive.


  Can you update the Feature page, especially the detailed description to
 the
  latest state? Do we have the shortcut and is it possible to have the
 random
  selection? If there are open questions we can clear them at the design
  meeting this Saturday [1].

 done.

  Detailed Description
 
  Buttons are added to either side of the XO icon currently used to
 randomly
  cycle through the valid-XO-color list. On the left is a button that
 cycles
  through the list in one direction. On the right is a button that cycles
  through the list in the other direction. Smaller XO icons to the left and
  right of the new buttons show a preview of the colors that will be
 selected
  if the button (or icon) is pressed. There is also a keyboard shortcut
  (Ctrl-Z) to undo the last change.
 
  Thanks,
Simon
 
  [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting
 

 I will try to join the Sat. discussion.

 regards.

 -walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2010-01-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 15.01.2010, at 14:58, Walter Bender wrote:
 
 On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
 Hi Walter,
 
 as far as I know there are no more design decisions to make for this
 Feature.
 
 I did raise a new question: should we eliminate the color selector
 altogether in the initialization screen. The more I think about it,
 the more I like the idea. I have found that having children choose
 colors at the beginning is disruptive (although they enjoy it). If
 colors were randomly assigned then that step could be eliminated. The
 Control Panel could be used (at a time determined by the teacher) to
 change the colors. Of course, we'd want to get more input from the
 field, but I think this simplifies things...

+1

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2010-01-15 Thread Gerald Ardito
Walter and Caroline,

I have had a completely different experience with color picking. When we
give the XOs to the students for the first time, they love picking their
names and colors. It is not disruptive at all. The students report that they
feel they 'own' the XOs more as a result.

Just my two cents.

Gerald

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de
 wrote:
  Hi Walter,
 
  as far as I know there are no more design decisions to make for this
  Feature.

 I did raise a new question: should we eliminate the color selector
 altogether in the initialization screen. The more I think about it,
 the more I like the idea. I have found that having children choose
 colors at the beginning is disruptive (although they enjoy it). If
 colors were randomly assigned then that step could be eliminated. The
 Control Panel could be used (at a time determined by the teacher) to
 change the colors. Of course, we'd want to get more input from the
 field, but I think this simplifies things...


 I agree.  Picking a color first thing when you are doing a demo is great,
 because it shows off the individualization of the system. However, when you
 are in a class situation it is distracting and since some kids are fast and
 others very slow at this task it leads to spread in where people are right
 away.  It might be better to have it as something of an easter egg.
 Something they can explore.

 My one concern is will we have rebellion? Kids who just can't stand having
 pink and purple or just can't stand the fact that someone else has their
 favorite colors.  That might be even more disruptive.


  Can you update the Feature page, especially the detailed description to
 the
  latest state? Do we have the shortcut and is it possible to have the
 random
  selection? If there are open questions we can clear them at the design
  meeting this Saturday [1].

 done.

  Detailed Description
 
  Buttons are added to either side of the XO icon currently used to
 randomly
  cycle through the valid-XO-color list. On the left is a button that
 cycles
  through the list in one direction. On the right is a button that cycles
  through the list in the other direction. Smaller XO icons to the left
 and
  right of the new buttons show a preview of the colors that will be
 selected
  if the button (or icon) is pressed. There is also a keyboard shortcut
  (Ctrl-Z) to undo the last change.
 
  Thanks,
Simon
 
  [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting
 

 I will try to join the Sat. discussion.

 regards.

 -walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-07 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de  wrote:
 On 11/12/2009 09:32 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
 Thanks for all the feedback.

 Hi Walter,

 thanks for your work on this Feature and for using the Feature Policy.
 Your Feature has been accepted for the 0.88 sucrose release cycle for
 the following reasons:

 - your Feature is supported by the community (as seen in this email
 thread) and backed up by many requests from the field
 - a design is available and has been discussed (in this thread too)
 - you have been following the Feature policy guidelines [1]
 - a full Feature page is available [2]

 yeah :)

 The Feature has been accepted and is listed at the 0.88 Feature page [3].

 It would be great to land this Feature in the next development release
 (Sucrose 0.87.2) [4]. Please work with the maintainer of the Sugar
 module [5] (Tomeu) to include it.

 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
 [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Enhanced_color_selector
 [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Feature_List
 [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
 [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Modules

 

 Should be doable, depending on how ambitious we get about refactoring
 me of the existing code.

Of course. Just follow the review process and I am sure we can land it 
in time ;p

 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?

 This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
 code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
 before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random 
functionality is a good one to have.

 - you mention a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Z), which is a standard way to
 undo an action: is it right that the undo option is removed and that
 this shortcut is then not needed anymore, too?

 There is an invisiable icon that provides the undo fuctionality.

Invisible because you want to use the accelerator of the widget? How 
would one know about the shortcut if there is no visible indication?

In general having an undo functionality is great - here it might be 
confusing. I mean we have an option to dismiss the whole CP section if 
we are not happy at all with the color we have chosen.

 think thatit is important if we keep the random function.) I do have a
 technical probem to sort out with Tomeu regarding the various widgets
 I am using for the buttons. I cannot seem to find a way to include
 both keyboard accelration and the ability to update the icon color
 either in Suar toolkit or in the hulahop code. Hence the comment above
 about more invasive changes.

Ok.

Regards,
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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-07 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter/Simon,

 On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:37, Simon Schampijer wrote:

 On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de  
 wrote:
 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?

 This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
 code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
 before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

 Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random
 functionality is a good one to have.

 Sorry, not quite following the 'random functionality' comment. Just to check, 
 my understanding that 'forwards' and 'backwards' are hooked up to change a 
 seed value used for a random calculation of the fill/stroke colour choices 
 (an almost infinitely large carousel of random choices, left or right). Where 
 the buttons act something like the below image to maintain the current 
 behaviour where clicking the large Xo icon still progresses forward:

That's my understanding as well. I think that keeping it simple, with
only next and previous controls, is probably the right way to go.
Allowing a click to generate a new random color is essentially
duplicate functionality, and without an obvious undo which is the
hallmark of the new design in the first place.

If we really want to retain functionality when clicking on the large
XO (for familiarity to those who used the old design), we could treat
it the same as a click on the next button.

Eben






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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-07 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter/Simon,

 On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:37, Simon Schampijer wrote:

 On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de  
 wrote:
 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?

 This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
 code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
 before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

 Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random
 functionality is a good one to have.

 Sorry, not quite following the 'random functionality' comment. Just to check, 
 my understanding that 'forwards' and 'backwards' are hooked up to change a 
 seed value used for a random calculation of the fill/stroke colour choices 
 (an almost infinitely large carousel of random choices, left or right). Where 
 the buttons act something like the below image to maintain the current 
 behaviour where clicking the large Xo icon still progresses forward:




 Regards,
 --Gary


Just to bring clarity to what I have implemented so far:

(1) clicking on the left xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
to cycle to the previous color pair in the list of colors found in
xocolor.py
(2) clicking on the right xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
to cycle to the next color pair in the list of colors found in
xocolor.py
(3) clicking on the large xo icon causes a random color pair to be
selected from the list in xocolor.py and resets the index used in #1
and #2. (Essentially the same as the present behavior).

There is also a hidden button (a temporary kludge) to undo (useful
for undoing the random selection). The intention is to associate a key
(Ctrl-z) to the undo function.

Of course, you can still back out of the whole thing by canceling the
changes in the manner currently supported: hitting x instead of ✓ on
the panel.

Comments on the above:

(a) The order of the colors in xocolor.py is reason to cycle through.
If you get a close approximation from random, you can fine-tune your
selection by searching through adjacent colors.
(b) I don't know how to get icons that can both be recolored and use
accelerator keys, hence the kludge above. For accessibility purposes,
it would be nice to add short-cuts to all the buttons in the control
panel.
(c) Gary, I tried the stacked icons vs running them in a row. The
stacked icons didn't do it for me (or Eben, as I recall). The current
configuration is xo  XO  xo.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-07 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter/Simon,

 On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:37, Simon Schampijer wrote:

 On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de  
 wrote:
 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?

 This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
 code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
 before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

 Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random
 functionality is a good one to have.

 Sorry, not quite following the 'random functionality' comment. Just to 
 check, my understanding that 'forwards' and 'backwards' are hooked up to 
 change a seed value used for a random calculation of the fill/stroke colour 
 choices (an almost infinitely large carousel of random choices, left or 
 right). Where the buttons act something like the below image to maintain the 
 current behaviour where clicking the large Xo icon still progresses forward:




 Regards,
 --Gary


 Just to bring clarity to what I have implemented so far:

 (1) clicking on the left xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
 to cycle to the previous color pair in the list of colors found in
 xocolor.py
 (2) clicking on the right xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
 to cycle to the next color pair in the list of colors found in
 xocolor.py
 (3) clicking on the large xo icon causes a random color pair to be
 selected from the list in xocolor.py and resets the index used in #1
 and #2. (Essentially the same as the present behavior).

 There is also a hidden button (a temporary kludge) to undo (useful
 for undoing the random selection). The intention is to associate a key
 (Ctrl-z) to the undo function.

 Of course, you can still back out of the whole thing by canceling the
 changes in the manner currently supported: hitting x instead of ✓ on
 the panel.

Yeah, I wouldn't place too much home in an undo shortcut being
discovered, but you're right about the ability to cancel in the
settings panel. The same is not true, of course, on first start.

 Comments on the above:

 (a) The order of the colors in xocolor.py is reason to cycle through.
 If you get a close approximation from random, you can fine-tune your
 selection by searching through adjacent colors.

Perhaps if we remove the random function, we could support
press-and-hold to cycle more quickly through the color space. I do see
the arguments for retaining random, of course, so maybe the
implementation you have is the right one.

 (b) I don't know how to get icons that can both be recolored and use
 accelerator keys, hence the kludge above. For accessibility purposes,
 it would be nice to add short-cuts to all the buttons in the control
 panel.
 (c) Gary, I tried the stacked icons vs running them in a row. The
 stacked icons didn't do it for me (or Eben, as I recall). The current
 configuration is xo  XO  xo.

Yeah, I think my preference was for:

( xo) XO (xo )

with the ( xo) units reacting as one big button. That is, you could
click on either the XO or the arrow. I believe this is how it
functions now, apart from the order of the xos and arrows being
reversed. Another possibility would be to make that more explicit by
using text/icon buttons, instead of just icons, like:

( xo Back ) XO ( xo Next)

In other words, the buttons would be the usual pill-shaped gray
buttons, with a colored XO for an icon and the word next or back.
That would help reduce confusion about which XO is My XO.

Eben



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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Walter,

On 7 Dec 2009, at 17:52, Walter Bender wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter/Simon,
 
 On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:37, Simon Schampijer wrote:
 
 On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de  
 wrote:
 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?
 
 This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
 code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
 before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.
 
 Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random
 functionality is a good one to have.
 
 Sorry, not quite following the 'random functionality' comment. Just to 
 check, my understanding that 'forwards' and 'backwards' are hooked up to 
 change a seed value used for a random calculation of the fill/stroke colour 
 choices (an almost infinitely large carousel of random choices, left or 
 right). Where the buttons act something like the below image to maintain the 
 current behaviour where clicking the large Xo icon still progresses forward:
 
 Regards,
 --Gary
 
 Just to bring clarity to what I have implemented so far:
 
 (1) clicking on the left xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
 to cycle to the previous color pair in the list of colors found in
 xocolor.py
 (2) clicking on the right xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
 to cycle to the next color pair in the list of colors found in
 xocolor.py
 (3) clicking on the large xo icon causes a random color pair to be
 selected from the list in xocolor.py and resets the index used in #1
 and #2. (Essentially the same as the present behavior).
 
 There is also a hidden button (a temporary kludge) to undo (useful
 for undoing the random selection). The intention is to associate a key
 (Ctrl-z) to the undo function.

A... Hmmm. Now, for me I think that implementation would be rather an 
unexpected/confusing behaviour, click the large XO and the little ones would 
seem to randomly change as well. Now I understand why the videos you posted 
caused me some confusion (I was expecting 3 colour choices in the xo  XO  xo 
to always scroll left or right). Do you have a clone somewhere on 
git.sugarlabs.org I can look at?

As per previous button mockup image, marching through a random set, left or 
right, would seem to provide the existing behaviour, plus the equivalent of an 
undo, and a mini-me preview for what would be next/before undo.

Sorry for the confusion.

 Of course, you can still back out of the whole thing by canceling the
 changes in the manner currently supported: hitting x instead of ✓ on
 the panel.
 
 Comments on the above:
 
 (a) The order of the colors in xocolor.py is reason to cycle through.
 If you get a close approximation from random, you can fine-tune your
 selection by searching through adjacent colors.

But only fine tune in 1 dimension? Would have to scroll a long way to see a 
change in the other fill/stroke colour.

 (b) I don't know how to get icons that can both be recolored and use
 accelerator keys, hence the kludge above. For accessibility purposes,
 it would be nice to add short-cuts to all the buttons in the control
 panel.
 (c) Gary, I tried the stacked icons vs running them in a row. The
 stacked icons didn't do it for me (or Eben, as I recall). The current
 configuration is xo  XO  xo.

OK, sorry missed that. FWIW, I think my main objection was that for the control 
panel positioning case, the XO was no longer central, being off centre to the 
right. I guess this could be easily fixed by moving the xo  XO  xo widgets 
down below the grey text Click to change your color: so the text does no 
longer pushes the widgets off to the right.

Regards,
--Gary


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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-07 Thread Walter Bender
There is a patch attached to http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1592

-walter

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 On 7 Dec 2009, at 17:52, Walter Bender wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter/Simon,

 On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:37, Simon Schampijer wrote:

 On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de  
 wrote:
 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?

 This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
 code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
 before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

 Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random
 functionality is a good one to have.

 Sorry, not quite following the 'random functionality' comment. Just to 
 check, my understanding that 'forwards' and 'backwards' are hooked up to 
 change a seed value used for a random calculation of the fill/stroke colour 
 choices (an almost infinitely large carousel of random choices, left or 
 right). Where the buttons act something like the below image to maintain 
 the current behaviour where clicking the large Xo icon still progresses 
 forward:

 Regards,
 --Gary

 Just to bring clarity to what I have implemented so far:

 (1) clicking on the left xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
 to cycle to the previous color pair in the list of colors found in
 xocolor.py
 (2) clicking on the right xo icon or the  icon causes the color pair
 to cycle to the next color pair in the list of colors found in
 xocolor.py
 (3) clicking on the large xo icon causes a random color pair to be
 selected from the list in xocolor.py and resets the index used in #1
 and #2. (Essentially the same as the present behavior).

 There is also a hidden button (a temporary kludge) to undo (useful
 for undoing the random selection). The intention is to associate a key
 (Ctrl-z) to the undo function.

 A... Hmmm. Now, for me I think that implementation would be rather an 
 unexpected/confusing behaviour, click the large XO and the little ones would 
 seem to randomly change as well. Now I understand why the videos you posted 
 caused me some confusion (I was expecting 3 colour choices in the xo  XO  
 xo to always scroll left or right). Do you have a clone somewhere on 
 git.sugarlabs.org I can look at?

 As per previous button mockup image, marching through a random set, left or 
 right, would seem to provide the existing behaviour, plus the equivalent of 
 an undo, and a mini-me preview for what would be next/before undo.

 Sorry for the confusion.

 Of course, you can still back out of the whole thing by canceling the
 changes in the manner currently supported: hitting x instead of ✓ on
 the panel.

 Comments on the above:

 (a) The order of the colors in xocolor.py is reason to cycle through.
 If you get a close approximation from random, you can fine-tune your
 selection by searching through adjacent colors.

 But only fine tune in 1 dimension? Would have to scroll a long way to see a 
 change in the other fill/stroke colour.

 (b) I don't know how to get icons that can both be recolored and use
 accelerator keys, hence the kludge above. For accessibility purposes,
 it would be nice to add short-cuts to all the buttons in the control
 panel.
 (c) Gary, I tried the stacked icons vs running them in a row. The
 stacked icons didn't do it for me (or Eben, as I recall). The current
 configuration is xo  XO  xo.

 OK, sorry missed that. FWIW, I think my main objection was that for the 
 control panel positioning case, the XO was no longer central, being off 
 centre to the right. I guess this could be easily fixed by moving the xo  XO 
  xo widgets down below the grey text Click to change your color: so the 
 text does no longer pushes the widgets off to the right.

 Regards,
 --Gary






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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 11/12/2009 09:32 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
 Thanks for all the feedback.

Hi Walter,

thanks for your work on this Feature and for using the Feature Policy. 
Your Feature has been accepted for the 0.88 sucrose release cycle for 
the following reasons:

- your Feature is supported by the community (as seen in this email 
thread) and backed up by many requests from the field
- a design is available and has been discussed (in this thread too)
- you have been following the Feature policy guidelines [1]
- a full Feature page is available [2]

The Feature has been accepted and is listed at the 0.88 Feature page [3].

It would be great to land this Feature in the next development release 
(Sucrose 0.87.2) [4]. Please work with the maintainer of the Sugar 
module [5] (Tomeu) to include it.

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Enhanced_color_selector
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Feature_List
[4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
[5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Modules



A few questions:
- in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option 
still available in the latest design?
- you mention a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Z), which is a standard way to 
undo an action: is it right that the undo option is removed and that 
this shortcut is then not needed anymore, too?

Thanks,
Simon

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 11/12/2009 11:00 AM, Carlo Falciola wrote:
 +1 for  me for Keyboard...
 maybe language should be in by default

 ciao carlo

 --- Gio 12/11/09, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com  ha scritto:

 Da: Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com
 Oggetto: Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector
 A: Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com, Eben 
 Eliasoneben.elia...@gmail.com
 Cc: Sugar-dev Develsugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, Carlo 
 Falciolacfalci...@yahoo.it
 Data: Giovedì 12 novembre 2009, 09:32
 Thanks for all the feedback.

 I'll post some more videos of the different layout ideas
 (not sure how
 to stack the buttons, but I am sure 30 seconds of Tomeu
 time will
 resolve that one).

 On a related note, I've also updated the initial dialog
 which
 presumably should use the same layout as we settle on for
 the control
 panel. Carlo suggested we offer a language/keyboard setting
 option to
 make available in SoaS images. I'd like to find a way to do
 this that
 makes in unobtrusive. I was thinking of just added a button
 at the
 bottom of the first screen that prompts for Name.

 -walter

We should open a new thread for this discussion, it will be lost otherwise.

Regards,
Simon
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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-12-06 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
 On 11/12/2009 09:32 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
 Thanks for all the feedback.

 Hi Walter,

 thanks for your work on this Feature and for using the Feature Policy.
 Your Feature has been accepted for the 0.88 sucrose release cycle for
 the following reasons:

 - your Feature is supported by the community (as seen in this email
 thread) and backed up by many requests from the field
 - a design is available and has been discussed (in this thread too)
 - you have been following the Feature policy guidelines [1]
 - a full Feature page is available [2]

yeah :)

 The Feature has been accepted and is listed at the 0.88 Feature page [3].

 It would be great to land this Feature in the next development release
 (Sucrose 0.87.2) [4]. Please work with the maintainer of the Sugar
 module [5] (Tomeu) to include it.

 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
 [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Enhanced_color_selector
 [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Feature_List
 [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
 [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Modules

 

Should be doable, depending on how ambitious we get about refactoring
me of the existing code.

 A few questions:
 - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
 still available in the latest design?

This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

 - you mention a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Z), which is a standard way to
 undo an action: is it right that the undo option is removed and that
 this shortcut is then not needed anymore, too?

There is an invisiable icon that provides the undo fuctionality. (I
think thatit is important if we keep the random function.) I do have a
technical probem to sort out with Tomeu regarding the various widgets
I am using for the buttons. I cannot seem to find a way to include
both keyboard accelration and the ability to update the icon color
either in Suar toolkit or in the hulahop code. Hence the comment above
about more invasive changes.

 Thanks,
    Simon

Thank you.

-walter
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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-12 Thread Walter Bender
Thanks for all the feedback.

I'll post some more videos of the different layout ideas (not sure how
to stack the buttons, but I am sure 30 seconds of Tomeu time will
resolve that one).

On a related note, I've also updated the initial dialog which
presumably should use the same layout as we settle on for the control
panel. Carlo suggested we offer a language/keyboard setting option to
make available in SoaS images. I'd like to find a way to do this that
makes in unobtrusive. I was thinking of just added a button at the
bottom of the first screen that prompts for Name.

-walter

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote:
 Very nice! The ability to go backward is a huge improvement.

 I have a few thoughts on the layout. I'd suggest putting the arrows on
 the outside, with the smaller (presumably cell size) XOs just to the
 left and right of the large one. I'd also suggest making the arrow
 buttons smaller, so they don't overpower the interface (right now they
 actually appear larger than cell size; I think even showing them at
 the size they appear in the Journal, or in menus, might suffice).

 I'm glad to see that clicking the arrows or the small XOs works!

 Eben


 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 On 11 Nov 2009, at 17:42, Walter Bender wrote:

 I just posted another version (no undo) and I think more clarity as to
 what is going on... You can click the   buttons or the small XOs.

 Yes, fab, that's much clearer, even for a static view.

 Here's a quick mockup at keeping the large buddy icon central so it matches
 the usual zoom presentation of your buddy icon:




 Regards,
 --Gary

 -walter

 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
 wrote:

 Hi Walter,

 On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote:

 I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it
 a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen
 cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech.

 I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out the
 logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple of
 times
 through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the other was a
 'light'
 version, then third time through I decided they must all just be random,
 finally I twigged that it was a scrolling history moving from right to
 left
 (small -- big -- small).

 Quick thoughts:

 - What you have now would be visually understandable after a single click
 if
 you added a brief transition animation so that the icons scroll
 left/right
 and resize (like a carousel).

 - Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition
 animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is right
 next
 to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could go above
 or
 below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the design).

 - The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central large
 icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central large
 icon
 colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new random base set
 of
 colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the centre large position,
 and
 generates a new set of small variants. The colour variants could just be
 +/-
 small random steps from the main base colours, or have some spacial
 meaning
 (left/right could be +/- fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke
 colour).

 Regards,
 --Gary





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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-12 Thread Carlo Falciola
+1 for  me for Keyboard...
maybe language should be in by default

ciao carlo 

--- Gio 12/11/09, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com ha scritto:

 Da: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
 Oggetto: Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector
 A: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com, Eben Eliason 
 eben.elia...@gmail.com
 Cc: Sugar-dev Devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, Carlo Falciola 
 cfalci...@yahoo.it
 Data: Giovedì 12 novembre 2009, 09:32
 Thanks for all the feedback.
 
 I'll post some more videos of the different layout ideas
 (not sure how
 to stack the buttons, but I am sure 30 seconds of Tomeu
 time will
 resolve that one).
 
 On a related note, I've also updated the initial dialog
 which
 presumably should use the same layout as we settle on for
 the control
 panel. Carlo suggested we offer a language/keyboard setting
 option to
 make available in SoaS images. I'd like to find a way to do
 this that
 makes in unobtrusive. I was thinking of just added a button
 at the
 bottom of the first screen that prompts for Name.
 
 -walter
 
 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Very nice! The ability to go backward is a huge
 improvement.
 
  I have a few thoughts on the layout. I'd suggest
 putting the arrows on
  the outside, with the smaller (presumably cell size)
 XOs just to the
  left and right of the large one. I'd also suggest
 making the arrow
  buttons smaller, so they don't overpower the interface
 (right now they
  actually appear larger than cell size; I think even
 showing them at
  the size they appear in the Journal, or in menus,
 might suffice).
 
  I'm glad to see that clicking the arrows or the small
 XOs works!
 
  Eben
 
 
  On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
 wrote:
  Hi Walter,
 
  On 11 Nov 2009, at 17:42, Walter Bender wrote:
 
  I just posted another version (no undo) and I
 think more clarity as to
  what is going on... You can click the 
  buttons or the small XOs.
 
  Yes, fab, that's much clearer, even for a static
 view.
 
  Here's a quick mockup at keeping the large buddy
 icon central so it matches
  the usual zoom presentation of your buddy icon:
 
 
 
 
  Regards,
  --Gary
 
  -walter
 
  On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C
 Martin g...@garycmartin.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi Walter,
 
  On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender
 wrote:
 
  I made a patch to the color selector
 on the About Me panel to make it
  a little easier to navigate the color
 selections. Please see my screen
  cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech.
 
  I needed to watch through a number of
 times before I could work out the
  logic for the colours of the two smaller
 buddy icons. First couple of
  times
  through I thought one was a swapped
 fill/stroke, and the other was a
  'light'
  version, then third time through I decided
 they must all just be random,
  finally I twigged that it was a scrolling
 history moving from right to
  left
  (small -- big -- small).
 
  Quick thoughts:
 
  - What you have now would be visually
 understandable after a single click
  if
  you added a brief transition animation so
 that the icons scroll
  left/right
  and resize (like a carousel).
 
  - Not convinced you need the undo icon if
 you can add the transition
  animation, it feels slightly odd at the
 moment that the undo is right
  next
  to the yet too be seen new colour
 combination (perhaps it could go above
  or
  below the centre icon if it really needs
 to stay in the design).
 
  - The alternative is to have N small buddy
 icons around the central large
  icon, where the small icons are a close
 variation of the central large
  icon
  colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a
 completely new random base set
  of
  colours; clicking any small icon moves it
 to the centre large position,
  and
  generates a new set of small variants. The
 colour variants could just be
  +/-
  small random steps from the main base
 colours, or have some spacial
  meaning
  (left/right could be +/- fill colour,
 up/down could be +/- stroke
  colour).
 
  Regards,
  --Gary
 
 
 
 
 
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[Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Walter Bender
I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it
a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen
cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech.

-walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Walter,

On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote:

 I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it
 a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen
 cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech 
 .

I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out  
the logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple  
of times through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the  
other was a 'light' version, then third time through I decided they  
must all just be random, finally I twigged that it was a scrolling  
history moving from right to left (small -- big -- small).

Quick thoughts:

- What you have now would be visually understandable after a single  
click if you added a brief transition animation so that the icons  
scroll left/right and resize (like a carousel).

- Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition  
animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is right  
next to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could  
go above or below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the  
design).

- The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central  
large icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central  
large icon colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new  
random base set of colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the  
centre large position, and generates a new set of small variants. The  
colour variants could just be +/- small random steps from the main  
base colours, or have some spacial meaning (left/right could be +/-  
fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke colour).

Regards,
--Gary

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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Walter Bender
I just posted another version (no undo) and I think more clarity as to
what is going on... You can click the   buttons or the small XOs.

-walter

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote:

 I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it
 a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen
 cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech.

 I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out the
 logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple of times
 through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the other was a 'light'
 version, then third time through I decided they must all just be random,
 finally I twigged that it was a scrolling history moving from right to left
 (small -- big -- small).

 Quick thoughts:

 - What you have now would be visually understandable after a single click if
 you added a brief transition animation so that the icons scroll left/right
 and resize (like a carousel).

 - Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition
 animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is right next
 to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could go above or
 below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the design).

 - The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central large
 icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central large icon
 colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new random base set of
 colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the centre large position, and
 generates a new set of small variants. The colour variants could just be +/-
 small random steps from the main base colours, or have some spacial meaning
 (left/right could be +/- fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke colour).

 Regards,
 --Gary





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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
I like it, especially the version with arrows instead of undo.

The best part for me is that it allows you to go backwards, if you
decide you liked an earlier color better.

-Wade

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
 I just posted another version (no undo) and I think more clarity as to
 what is going on... You can click the   buttons or the small XOs.

 -walter

 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote:

 I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it
 a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen
 cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech.

 I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out the
 logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple of times
 through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the other was a 'light'
 version, then third time through I decided they must all just be random,
 finally I twigged that it was a scrolling history moving from right to left
 (small -- big -- small).

 Quick thoughts:

 - What you have now would be visually understandable after a single click if
 you added a brief transition animation so that the icons scroll left/right
 and resize (like a carousel).

 - Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition
 animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is right next
 to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could go above or
 below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the design).

 - The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central large
 icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central large icon
 colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new random base set of
 colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the centre large position, and
 generates a new set of small variants. The colour variants could just be +/-
 small random steps from the main base colours, or have some spacial meaning
 (left/right could be +/- fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke colour).

 Regards,
 --Gary





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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Gary C Martin

Hi Walter,

On 11 Nov 2009, at 17:42, Walter Bender wrote:


I just posted another version (no undo) and I think more clarity as to
what is going on... You can click the   buttons or the small XOs.


Yes, fab, that's much clearer, even for a static view.

Here's a quick mockup at keeping the large buddy icon central so it  
matches the usual zoom presentation of your buddy icon:


inline: layout_tweak.png


Regards,
--Gary


-walter

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin  
g...@garycmartin.com wrote:

Hi Walter,

On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote:

I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make  
it
a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my  
screen
cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech 
.


I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out  
the
logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple  
of times
through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the other was  
a 'light'
version, then third time through I decided they must all just be  
random,
finally I twigged that it was a scrolling history moving from right  
to left

(small -- big -- small).

Quick thoughts:

- What you have now would be visually understandable after a single  
click if
you added a brief transition animation so that the icons scroll  
left/right

and resize (like a carousel).

- Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition
animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is  
right next
to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could go  
above or

below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the design).

- The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central  
large
icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central  
large icon
colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new random  
base set of
colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the centre large  
position, and
generates a new set of small variants. The colour variants could  
just be +/-
small random steps from the main base colours, or have some spacial  
meaning
(left/right could be +/- fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke  
colour).


Regards,
--Gary






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Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Eben Eliason
Very nice! The ability to go backward is a huge improvement.

I have a few thoughts on the layout. I'd suggest putting the arrows on
the outside, with the smaller (presumably cell size) XOs just to the
left and right of the large one. I'd also suggest making the arrow
buttons smaller, so they don't overpower the interface (right now they
actually appear larger than cell size; I think even showing them at
the size they appear in the Journal, or in menus, might suffice).

I'm glad to see that clicking the arrows or the small XOs works!

Eben


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Walter,

 On 11 Nov 2009, at 17:42, Walter Bender wrote:

 I just posted another version (no undo) and I think more clarity as to
 what is going on... You can click the   buttons or the small XOs.

 Yes, fab, that's much clearer, even for a static view.

 Here's a quick mockup at keeping the large buddy icon central so it matches
 the usual zoom presentation of your buddy icon:




 Regards,
 --Gary

 -walter

 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
 wrote:

 Hi Walter,

 On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote:

 I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it
 a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen
 cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech.

 I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out the
 logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple of
 times
 through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the other was a
 'light'
 version, then third time through I decided they must all just be random,
 finally I twigged that it was a scrolling history moving from right to
 left
 (small -- big -- small).

 Quick thoughts:

 - What you have now would be visually understandable after a single click
 if
 you added a brief transition animation so that the icons scroll
 left/right
 and resize (like a carousel).

 - Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition
 animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is right
 next
 to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could go above
 or
 below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the design).

 - The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central large
 icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central large
 icon
 colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new random base set
 of
 colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the centre large position,
 and
 generates a new set of small variants. The colour variants could just be
 +/-
 small random steps from the main base colours, or have some spacial
 meaning
 (left/right could be +/- fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke
 colour).

 Regards,
 --Gary





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