Talk:Design Team/Toolbar Catalog

Notes from 2011-08-03 meeting

From the discussions in Design Team meeting:

Agreed:

• The gear icon is for when use creates content; the spanner icon is for simple parameter adjustments. For example, the toolbar icon for creating a custom Abacus would use the gear; the toolbar icon for adjusting temperature and humidity in Distance would use the spanner.
• The "sparkle" star should be used as a badge on the activity icon to indicate new.
• The five-pointed star is for favorites
• We will use a box icon with a badge to indicate collections of things on submenues.
• We will make more use of the combo box with embedded icon (see Record) for lists when appropriate.

Action items

• walter to replace star icon in Abacus with badged activity icon
• walter will use a box icon with a badge for that toolbar

• walter will move all the Abacus sample buttons to radio buttons on the secondary toolbar

• manuq will do the abacus activity icon smaller

• manuq will move the title and sharing button to the standard activity secondary toolbar in distance.
• gonzalo will replace the smiley face with the standard insert image icon in fototunes
• manuq will try an isometric box for "samples"

The isometric is already done, so I'm trying another design that allows elements inside:

• manuq replace the cards icon in Get Books with something better

• manuq will do a smaller icon for maze
• walter will move the title, sharing and stop buttons in minitamtam to the main toolbar
• walter will use a box button with a badge for the presets in synthlab
• walter will rethink the tamtam edit secondary toolbar: perhaps breaking it up into multiple toolbars

Notes from 2011-04-10 meeting

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 toolbar for TamTamMini

Proposed toolbars for TamTamSynthLab

Proposed toolbars for TamTamJam

Note: It has been proposed to move the play/mute buttons to the main toolbar so as to make the Beat buttons fit on smaller displays. --Walter 16:13, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

The new Beat Toolbar icon:

Proposed toolbars for TamTamEdit

Note: Might make sense to move the playback / record buttons to the main toolbar. --Walter 16:13, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

Note: More consolidation

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