On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Hi Sascha, > > On 20 Jun 2011, at 10:21, Sascha Silbe wrote: > > > Excerpts from Gary Martin's message of Sun Jun 19 18:20:54 +0200 2011: > > > >> Just caught up with the 2nd half of last weeks meeting and thought I'd > pass along a screenshot of the Labryinth activity toolbar as it includes > export icons for both pdf and png objects: > >> > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Labyrinth_Toolbar_1.png > > > > Interesting. Would you consider that icon good enough for a first > > release of Browse with the PDF export feature? I'll happily include any > > updated icon later on. > > I would, but then it's one I generated for Labyrinth so I'm biased ;) Would > like someone more +1s (or -1s) as well as this suggests we move forward on > this as the import/export visual generic design. I originally went for this > three letter extension document design as there are a number of such export > file types that may need different icons and have no obvious visual (or as > in the pdf case uses a commercial trade mark). I would rather have avoid > text use in icons, for localisation issues, Couldn't we used icons badged by a reduced version of the object's icon? They might appear something like those made for Memorize, here, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Toolbar_Catalog#Memorize --Fred but exporting content to specific object formats already would seem to > require a user has some deeper level of understanding or instruction. > > The other option is to have a generic single 'export to journal' icon (like > the Keep icon), and then have each supported export format as a text menu > item in its palette. This would allow covering any format without need for > an icon for each, but is less obvious/discoverable (in the old toolbars > export options were sometimes placed in the Keep palette, but not many > discovered that for themselves – Write activity being general example). > > One general idea that has been rattling around my head is that on clicking > an export icon/menu choice (or even perhaps the Keep if we keep the tool > button but correct the implementation so it is a plain duplicate object > feature**) should raise the naming dialogue (or it's new replacement if that > lands in time). This would give immediate user feedback as to the event and > allow them to see/change the Journal name and other details if needed. > ** this can be in addition to Simon's Journal duplicate/copy-to-->.... > feature work, > > > Once we have a nice set of export icons, we should ship them in > > sugar-artwork so all activities can use them easily. > > +1 though that is not backwards compatible, activities would still need to > include them in their own bundles for some time to come if they want to > support deployments (e.g. 11.2.0 will include the updated toolbars but > wouldn't have the extra icons). > > Regards, > --Gary > > >> Regarding the icon placement, keeping import/export options in the > activity secondary toolbar seems like the correct place (same place as > Keep). Though I do notice that Walter (in Turtle Blocks) decided to make a > new Journal like toolbar (need to chat to Walter about the motivation behind > this choice). > > > > OK, in the activity toolbar it stays then. > > > > Sascha > > > > -- > > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ >
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