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

Joshua N Pritikin jpritikin at pobox.com
Tue Apr 22 19:36:21 EDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:56:54PM -0400, 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.

Eben, usually your ideas make sense to me. Maybe I am missing something, 
but I don't understand your idea.

What the clipboard needs is previews. Does coloring a clipping with the 
source XS color pair add anything if there is already a preview?


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