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 move all the Abacus sample buttons to radio buttons on the secondary toolbar
- walter will use a box icon with a badge for that toolbar
- manuq will do the abacus activity icon smaller
- ??? 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"
- 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