[sugar] Copy/Paste icon colour (Re: A Sugar TODO List, of Sorts)

[Gary C Martin]

On 22 Apr 2008, at 17:56, Eben Eliason wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> On 7 Apr 2008, at 20:00, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>>> • Color copy/paste buttons in activities
>>> Which colors should take? Just the local colors?
>>
>> I've always been unclear about the purpose of this, and have not seen
>> an explanation – always thought the coloured icon looked out of place
>> in the toolbar. Anyone know the reason/metaphor that makes colouring
>> it so important?
>
> When a clipping is made, it appears in the Frame as an icon, rendered
> in a specific XO color pair.  Having clippings in various colors can
> help to make the clipboard a bit more engaging, and aid in identifying
> the correct one in the absence of (much needed) previews.  The basic
> approach to coloring would be to color the copy button in the color of
> the activity it resides in, and color the paste button the color of
> the currently selected clipping in the Frame.
>
> However, the greater potential is reached when activities support it
> directly.  For instance, the Record activity might turn the copy
> button to the colors of the currently selected photo.  Should the
> Write activity ever keep track of exactly who wrote what, it could
> color the icon the colors of the person who wrote the selected block
> of text. In the case of a "multiple selection", the colors would
> revert back to those of the activity.  It might also be useful to
> return the button to white when there is no selection at all...

Hmmmm, you haven't really sold me the real end utility for all the  
effort needed to make that feature work reliably :-) It would need to  
be consistent across all activities to be discoverable, and even then  
perhaps 90%+ of the time the clipping will default to your local XO  
colour.

So – just to check I understand – if I join a record activity with 2  
others, the activity icon I see will be the colour of whoever's XO  
started the activity; copy will be the colour of whoever's media I  
currently have selected; and paste would be the colour of the last  
clipping made.

If the plan was to also support sharable** clippings, I would  
understand the extra need for colorising – but that's probably just  
another feature to slow down other much more critical dev work.

**hovering over a clipping could reveal an option for "share with..."  
could act as a way to transfer all kinds of things depending on what  
Sugar allowed you to clip (perhaps even an activity or an activity  
bundle from the Journal***).

***question, will .xo bundles continue to appear in the new Journal  
Design like they used to (always though that looked a little messy),  
or will downloaded .xo bundles only appear in the Home view ring/list?

- Gary