Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] 10 things you should know about Sugar

2010-08-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Martin is revisiting whether 'Journal' should be considered a View.

I think how 'My Settings' is considered should also be revisited.  My
problem is that occasionally, due to some situation (which I myself
might have caused), I am unable to bring up Home Circle View.  Then, if
I need to change a 'My Settings' parameter, I can at best reboot - in
the hope that that will let me access 'My Settings' again.


I have the feeling that in tomorrow's versions there is an intent to
move control parameters out of 'My Settings' into the toolbar of the
Activity affected by that setting.  While that solves the problem of
easy access to a setting from an Activity, it results in dispersing
discovery of What things in the system can the user change?.  I myself
favor the centralizing of control knobs, instead of dispersing them.

But yes, there is a need for easy access to those control knobs.  Now
that (as a result of the High School keyboard) resources such as Journal
(for which there were dedicated keys on the membrane keyboard) are being
assigned to existing Function Keys, I would like to see 'My Settings'
also be considered a View, and be assigned its own invocation key.


Thanks,  mikus

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Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] 10 things you should know about Sugar

2010-08-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus,

On 3 Aug 2010, at 13:55, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:

 Martin is revisiting whether 'Journal' should be considered a View.
 
 I think how 'My Settings' is considered should also be revisited.  My
 problem is that occasionally, due to some situation (which I myself
 might have caused), I am unable to bring up Home Circle View.  Then, if
 I need to change a 'My Settings' parameter, I can at best reboot - in
 the hope that that will let me access 'My Settings' again.

FWIW, the settings CP dialogue can be accessed from any of your own buddy icons 
(since Sugar 0.84 I think). So that's from the usual large home XO, your group 
XO, your neighbourhood XO, or your XO in the right frame.

--Gary 

 I have the feeling that in tomorrow's versions there is an intent to
 move control parameters out of 'My Settings' into the toolbar of the
 Activity affected by that setting.  While that solves the problem of
 easy access to a setting from an Activity, it results in dispersing
 discovery of What things in the system can the user change?.  I myself
 favor the centralizing of control knobs, instead of dispersing them.
 
 But yes, there is a need for easy access to those control knobs.  Now
 that (as a result of the High School keyboard) resources such as Journal
 (for which there were dedicated keys on the membrane keyboard) are being
 assigned to existing Function Keys, I would like to see 'My Settings'
 also be considered a View, and be assigned its own invocation key.
 
 
 Thanks,  mikus
 
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