Features/New Toolbar Design
Summary
Implement widgets for Design Team/Designs/Toolbars proposal.
Owner
- Name: Aleksey Lim
- Email: send an email
Current status
- Targeted release: 0.86
- Last updated: Sun Jul 12 02:22:30 UTC 2009
- Percentage of completion: 75%
Detailed Description
sugar.graphics.toolbar module consists of 2 widgets:
- Toolbar main widget which represents toolbar itself
- ToolbarButton tool button to insert to Toolbar, which could be expanded to sub-widget
NOTE: Toolbar was designed to have only one level of sub-widgets.
Toolbar
sugar.graphics.toolbar.Toolbar extends gtk.VBox:
- top property to access to gtk.Toolbar interface
- padding horizontal padding to top toolbar and all sub-widgets
- modify_bg to modify background color of toolbar itself and all sub-widgets
ToolbarButton
sugar.graphics.toolbar.ToolbarButton extends sugar.graphics.toolbutton.ToolButton:
- toolbar RO property, if parent of button is sugar.graphics.toolbar.Toolbar
- page RW GObject property, sub-widget to expand
- expanded RW property, if page expanded
If sugar.graphics.toolbar.Toolbar.palette property wasn't set manually it will contain palette with page.
Example
from sugar.graphics.toolbar import Toolbar, ToolbarButton
toolbar = Toolbar()
tollbarbutton_1 = ToolbarButton(
page=gtk.Button('sub-widget #1'),
icon_name='computer-xo')
toolbar.top.insert(tollbarbutton_1, -1)
tollbarbutton_2 = ToolbarButton(
page=gtk.Button('sub-widget #2'),
icon_name='button_cancel',
tooltip='with custom palette instead of sub-widget')
toolbar.top.insert(tollbarbutton_2, -1)
Benefit to Sugar
Make process of switching between toolbars more clear, use tool buttons that are showing all time(in main toolbar) i.e. having Close/Help buttons visible all time could be very useful.
Scope
- implementation in sugar-toolkit
- use new toolbars in Journal
How To Test
In progress..
User Experience
If this feature is noticeable by its target audience, how will their experiences change as a result? Describe what they will see or notice.
Dependencies
- only sugar-toolkit
Contingency Plan
None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.
Documentation
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Release Notes
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