Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-04-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Apr 2008, at 16:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What if on rollover would appear a normal palette with all the buttons that would be in the subtoolbar? This palette would have an option for pinning it, and that would mean inserting a subtoolbar between the toolbar and the canvas like in the

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-04-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
What if on rollover would appear a normal palette with all the buttons that would be in the subtoolbar? This palette would have an option for pinning it, and that would mean inserting a subtoolbar between the toolbar and the canvas like in the mockups. Benefits: - palettes don't disturb the

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-03-25 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Mar 2008, at 15:47, Eben Eliason wrote: Taking these concerns to heart, I'd like to propose an alternate to the tabbed toolbar design which attempts to address these new concerns with the current design, again making some tradeoffs but hopefully coming out on top in the end. The core

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-03-25 Thread Nate Ridderman
Eben, By no means do I consider myself a user interface expert, but I have a few comments. In general, I agree that this proposal is better for localization and may take up less screen real estate. Would there still be default buttons to share, keep, and/or stop the activity? I believe it's

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-03-25 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:41:58PM +, Gary C Martin wrote: The core component of the new approach is the introduction of the toolbar button, which you can see mockups of at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Toolbars. There is no text with the mockups yet, but I'll add it later. In

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-03-25 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Nate Ridderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eben, By no means do I consider myself a user interface expert, but I have a few comments. In general, I agree that this proposal is better for localization and may take up less screen real estate. Would there still

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-03-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I'd have to say that, despite the knowledge that all activities will run fullscreen, we should try to avoid developing to a particular piece of hardware (and it's resolution). Hmmm. That sounds impossible. Your