Discuss Scratch

#1Sept. 13, 2016 06:15:16
MinecraftM153
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Block palette

I want to have the block palette have icons in Scratch 3:

For example: The motion icon will have ‘Motion’ and a guy running. Sensing will have the text and a hand.
#2Sept. 13, 2016 06:49:13
Sigton
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Block palette

What's the advantage of this over the labels and color coding?

Sigton
#3Sept. 13, 2016 07:08:33
dude341
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Block palette

Sigton wrote:

What's the advantage of this over the labels and color coding?

Sigton
It would look cool.

Support, it would make the editor look better.
#4Sept. 13, 2016 07:31:58
MinecraftM153
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Block palette

dude341 wrote:

Sigton wrote:

What's the advantage of this over the labels and color coding?

Sigton
It would look cool.

Support, it would make the editor look better.

Thanks!
#5Sept. 13, 2016 11:45:40
Gobblesmack
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Block palette

Indifferent. I think the colour coding is fine, plus the ST has other things to work on (like Scratch 3.0.)
#6Sept. 13, 2016 11:53:57
MinecraftM153
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Gobblesmack wrote:

Indifferent. I think the colour coding is fine, plus the ST has other things to work on (like Scratch 3.0.)
#7Sept. 13, 2016 14:37:32
Sigton
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Block palette

I disagree with that it will look better, one of my favourite things about the editor is the simplistic design and adding icons for each tab would make it look a lot more crowded and complicated. Personally I don't think this will fit with the graphical design of Scratch.

Sigton
#8Sept. 13, 2016 14:54:27
BurnedCrystal
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Block palette

Yeah, honestly this just sounds like it'd look cluttered and destroy part of scratch's aesthetic (the simplicity)
#9Sept. 13, 2016 17:49:07
The4thPixel
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Block palette

In my opinion the color coding is fine. Extra icons would make it cluttered, which I don't want, especially on a tiny 1366 x 768 laptop like mine.
#10Sept. 16, 2016 17:30:12
MinecraftM153
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Block palette

Ok, you can post more comments that make this topic useless

And i'll close this.

#11Sept. 16, 2016 17:42:11
Sigton
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MinecraftM153 wrote:

Ok, you can post more comments that make this topic useless

And i'll close this.

We're just giving our opinions on your suggestion, and constructive criticism on how your suggestion could be improved.
When you make a suggestion, you need to be prepared to not always get support with it; peoples opinions differ

Sigton
#12Sept. 16, 2016 17:52:28
DownsGameClub
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Block palette

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
#13Sept. 16, 2016 17:55:47
MinecraftM153
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Block palette

DownsGameClub wrote:

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
What about if you can turn off the icons?
#14Sept. 16, 2016 17:57:07
DownsGameClub
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Block palette

MinecraftM153 wrote:

DownsGameClub wrote:

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
What about if you can turn off the icons?
I think that is for the Scratch Team to decide on if they are in favor of this idea.
#15Sept. 17, 2016 04:51:04
Sheep_maker
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Block palette

Maybe have only icons for mobile devices (since Scratch 3.0 is using the HTML5 player) so that there's more room to drag blocks around?
#16Sept. 17, 2016 07:37:20
MinecraftM153
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Block palette

Sheep_maker wrote:

Maybe have only icons for mobile devices (since Scratch 3.0 is using the HTML5 player) so that there's more room to drag blocks around?
OK, but i think it's good to have the icons on by default, and can be turned off, mobile or not (It is a good idea to have icons so that mobiles will have bigger touch)
#17Sept. 17, 2016 09:18:03
Sigton
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DownsGameClub wrote:

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
If kids are illiterate then how would they read the text on the blocks?

Sigton
#18Sept. 17, 2016 10:55:51
DownsGameClub
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Sigton wrote:

DownsGameClub wrote:

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
If kids are illiterate then how would they read the text on the blocks?

Sigton
Oh… Right… *Facepalm*

Well in that case, it still helps when people don't speak english.

Last edited by DownsGameClub (Sept. 17, 2016 10:56:33)

#19Sept. 17, 2016 14:37:57
MinecraftM153
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Sigton wrote:

DownsGameClub wrote:

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
If kids are illiterate then how would they read the text on the blocks?

Sigton
You forgot? Kids that are illiterate can use the horizontal way of programming in scratch 3 because that uses icons. By the way, this idea is meant to be in S3
#20Sept. 17, 2016 15:29:30
dude341
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Block palette

MinecraftM153 wrote:

Sigton wrote:

DownsGameClub wrote:

I actually am in favor of this idea. Current ISO standards use set symbols instead of Americanized symbols using words and different pictures for the same thing. Doing this idea helps encourage use for people who don't speak English (as translation is somewhat an issue), and most kids may be somewhat illiterate. Pictures are pretty easy to remember and recognize.
If kids are illiterate then how would they read the text on the blocks?

Sigton
You forgot? Kids that are illiterate can use the horizontal way of programming in scratch 3 because that uses icons. By the way, this idea is meant to be in S3
It would actually look better in Scratch 2.0 not 3.0, and I don't like Scratch 3.0's design. It looks like Windows 8.

Last edited by dude341 (Sept. 17, 2016 15:29:56)

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