Features/Touch/Development

Todo

Triage touch features

Essential

• OSK
  • Canvas auto panning based on input focus
  • Show Frame or OSK, never both
  • Hide OSK key on OSK
  • Show OSK button on device Frame edge
  • Sugar theme
  • Internationalisation
    • e.g. layout covers our accent needs
  • Multilingual
    • e.g. ability to switching between at least two languages
  • Landscape/portrait
  • Reveal on text input focus, auto **dismiss** on loss of focus
  • Don't auto reveal in laptop mode, only ebook mode
• Text selection
  • Selection handles
  • Cut(?)/Copy/Paste/Speak selection palette
• Drag scrolling support
• Hide/show mouse cursor based on input method
• Palette behaviours
  • Tapping icons with no primary action should instantly open full palette
    • e.g. Right Frame edge buddy icons, central home buddy icon
    • e.g. Access Point device icon
• Up/down menu/combo overflow widgets need to be larger
• Frame
  • Expose/hide gesture!!!
  • Button for top left (fallback)
• Home view
  • Disable Activity icon dragging in fixed layouts
    • e.g. allows easier access to long hold of Activity icon to access palette
• Neighbourhood view
  • Remove primary action from AP icons
  • Remove primary action from ad-hoc icons
  • Remove primary action from shared activity icons
• Journal
  • Touch & hold on an entry should invoke full palette
  • …Dragging and entry needs to work but not prevent touch * hold palette if finger moves a little
    • e.g. to copy it to another volume
• Combobox
  • Single touch of a combo should lock open it's palette and allow drag scrolling
  • Should not show blank space when previous selection was near the bottom of the list
• Touch & hold == right click equivalent
• Visual feedback for button presses
  • Generic solution - use a mouse HW cursor with alpha white 'glow' marking all primary touch events?
  • Existing GTK button down highlights work well in toolbars
  • Shell canvas area views
    • Use grey round rect outline for presses
      • AP icons
      • Activity icons
      • Buddy icons
      • Ad-hoc icons
    • Only really needed where there is no palette and/or primary action is too slow
• Visual feedback for touch and hold
  • Animated circle timer?
  • Blinking grey round rect outline
• Activities
  • Write
  • Browse
  • Paint
  • Read
  • Calculate
  • Turtle Art

Ideal

• Palette behaviours
  • Single touch should never trigger hover content
  • Touch and hold should raise hover content
  • Touching the icon of an open palette should close the palette
    • e.g. Journal list sort palette
• Toolbar overflow widget should be same size as Sugar toolbar button icons
• Zoom to content behaviour
  • e.g. Browse
• Frame
  • Activity Zoom icon (and physical key) should act like Alt-Tab
• Home view
  • Improve layouts
    • e.g. larger Activity icon usage where possible
    • e.g. Increase separation between icons where possible
• Details view
  • Alert dialogue needed for Erase toolbar button
  • Alert dialogue needed for Duplicate toolbar button
• Accelerometer auto rotate based on rotation when laptop is in ebook mode
• Activities
  • Physics
  • Clock
  • Memorize
  • Image Viewer
  • Abacus
  • FotoToon
  • Implode
  • Labyrinth
  • Chat
  • Help
    • e.g. pick up web kit features
  • WikipediaEN/ES
    • e.g. pick up web kit features
  • Maze
• Drag scrolling
  • Smooth!!
• Priorities UI redraw over other processes
  • e.g. don't stall the UI thread

Polish

• Smooth transitions/animations
• Text selection
  • Feature extensible selection palette
    • e.g. Activity specific formatting
• Home view
  • New grid layout option
• Make sure Activities and shell works well in portrait
  • e.g. toolbar button overflow in some Activities
• Pre-light hover effects (remove for touch screen input)
• hspan/vspan separators, make sure they are large enough for finger interaction
• Activities
  • Record
  • Distance
  • Get Books
  • InfoSlicer
  • Jukebox
  • Log
  • Measure
  • Moon
  • Portfolio
  • Pippy
  • Ruler
  • Speak
  • StopWatch
  • Terminal
  • Typing Turtle
  • Words
• OSK
  • Subtle key click feedback
  • Custom context
  • Custom key strips/extras based on Activity
  • Predictive text
    • Context sensitive
    • Locale sensitive
• Activity start/resume screen
  • Remove start/resume palette
  • Palette options presented in fullscreen UI, before activity pulse loader

Not in this cycle

• Activities
  • TamTamEdit
  • TamTamJam
  • TamTamMini
  • TamTamSynthLab
  • Etoys
  • Scratch