[sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars & Tabs (or lack thereof)

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Sat Apr 5 11:44:38 EDT 2008


What if on rollover would appear a normal palette with all the buttons
that would be in the subtoolbar? This palette would have an option for
pinning it, and that would mean inserting a subtoolbar between the
toolbar and the canvas like in the mockups.

Benefits:

- palettes don't disturb the layout of the underlying window,
- existing UI component,
- buttons are grouped closer to the main button, requiring less mouse travel,
- buttons are in an area not as thin, making easier to move the mouse
without going out (thus hiding the palette),
- we could keep the toolbar label.

Thoughts?

Tomeu



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