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Human Interface Guidelines/The Sugar Interface/Toolbars (view source)
Revision as of 14:08, 11 May 2007
, 14:08, 11 May 2007→Inserting Objects
Many custom toolbars will provide controls useful in editing contexts which don't always exist by default. The Table Toolbar within the Write activity is a good example of this: Until a table has been inserted into a document, there is no "table context" within which to edit. Of course, once there is one, the Table Toolbar will be automatically selected whenever the table is selected. Since the act of inserting the corresponding object creates the context that the toolbar associates with, this control should always appear first within the toolbar. The Icon guidelines provide further information on the visual style for insert buttons.
Many custom toolbars will provide controls useful in editing contexts which don't always exist by default. The Table Toolbar within the Write activity is a good example of this: Until a table has been inserted into a document, there is no "table context" within which to edit. Of course, once there is one, the Table Toolbar will be automatically selected whenever the table is selected. Since the act of inserting the corresponding object creates the context that the toolbar associates with, this control should always appear first within the toolbar. The Icon guidelines provide further information on the visual style for insert buttons.
=====Bookmarking=====
We hope to encourage discussion, iteration, and sharing on the laptops, and so we hope to encourage the idea of annotation across many different activities. When activities support textual annotations, highlighting, or other complex forms, they should have an Annotation Toolbar containing all of these features. Some activities, especially early on before a system-wide annotation system exists, may simply like to implement basic bookmarking. Though we hope to implement bookmarking as a subset of the annotation model, this particular feature is essential to some activities, and can be implemented in simpler ways in the meantime. When bookmarking exists as a single action within an activity, it should be placed to the far right of any custom toolbar which seems appropriate.
====Hiding Toolbars====
====Hiding Toolbars====