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 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