Hello Esteban (and all),
It would be wonderful if you or someone else could write up some very easy to 
follow instructions for doing the screen scaling, in Spanish, for the teachers 
in Uruguay.  Don't assume anything.  Pretend the teacher is a total beginner 
(on the Olidata many will be). Make it a "Grannie's Guide" type document and 
they will love you forever for doing it! 
Caryl (aka "GrannieB")

From: ebor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:58:43 -0300
To: garycmar...@googlemail.com
CC: IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamap...@gmail.com; 
sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel]  Olidata computers in Uruguay


> One of the most noticeable source for incompatibilities seems to be screen 
> definition, 800x600 in the Olidata, and thus several Activities are cropped,

Screen definition is 800x480 ...
 




Ouch, quite a few Activity toolbars will likely overflow at 800x600 (overflow 
widgets land in a drop down menu in the far right of the toolbar that shows the 
text from the tool button hint only). The XO is a 1200x900 screen, about a year 
or two back there was general consensus that we should try and make sure 
Activities worked well down too 1024x768 as that was common in emulated 
environments and regular laptops/desktops.





These 800x600 display machines will want to make sure they are running Sugar 
using an environmental variable of  SUGAR_SCALING=72, this will shrink the UI 
scale down to fit the lower screen resolution. SUGAR_SCALING currently only has 
an effect at either 72 (works well for 800x600 and 1024x768) or 100 (for 
1200x900 or larger).



With SUGAR_SCALING=72 Sugar have some problems showing  properties of a journal 
entry for example. I trying to set lower values of SUGAR_SCALING but I have not 
getting good results.

Regards,


Esteban.




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