Talk:Design Team/Toolbar Catalog

From the discussions in IRC and email:

If we could quickly reach consensus on some outstanding issues regarding standard icons for things like the camera and user-created content, perhaps we could incorporate these icons in all the activities?

About icons, I think we need a agreement with:

• New items (for example Implode use the star, and the star is our icon for bookmarks)
• Save to journal / export (turtle art use the transfer style icons)
• Load from journal
• View icon (the eye is used for sensors in turtle art, maybe use the sensors icon in Measure?)
• Photo / Camera / mic icons
• Sensor input (is the Measure icon OK?)
• The lips (i am trying to use them for text to speech, but is used in Measure)
• User created content -- when use the gear? or spanner (wrench)? We have a spectrum from creating new content to modifying parameters to modifying the activity itself.
• A search icon (we use the loupe, but can be confusing with the zoom icons?)
• The loupe icon was not designed for the toolbar and have a different size
• A standard icon (and way of handling) examples (code, projects, etc.)
• Help icon (Finance and other activities have one)

TamTam refactoring

Proposed toolbars for TamTamSynthLab

Proposed toolbars for TamTamJam (Need better icons for Jam and Playback toolbars)

Finance refactoring

An alternative to the Transaction subtoolbar buttons, reusing the icons "row-insert" and "row-remove":

Considerations:

• I have converted the view buttons to radio buttons
• The sensitivity of the buttons in the Transaction toolbar depend on list view selected, maybe we can trigger a change to list view when Transaction toolbar is selected
• The context help strings may need to be changed because of the toolbars change, I will check
• The help icon may be a good addition to Sugar
• Change the Period label for icons inside the combo box, like in Record?
• I tested other placements for the elements in the Transaction icon, with one and two arrows, I'm open to critics