Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Carlo : nowhere in the default GUI there is a clock, even if, in the control panel there is a panel to configure it. I think that personal watches are maybe not so easily owned by kids around the word, so a standard clock could be a little, but welcomed feature. (not talking about the clock

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-15 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:06:21PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I'm surprised at the debate of providing a clock in the Frame. All the bike sheds in your town must be mass-produced :). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Tdang/XO_Setup#Add_a_Clock_to_Home_View ... If an User can put in a clock

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-14 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:32, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: For non-XO Sugar, it would be nice to be able to log out as oppose to shutdown. (Yes, you can always ctrl-alt-delete, but that is not exactly friendly. Yeah, I agree. I filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8815 a few days ago

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-14 Thread Eben Eliason
Hi all, sorry I'm late on this thread. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, during past week-end I spent a few hours playing with the 676 -Candidate , mainly in order to check translated strings here an there. Then let my very personal user base (My

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-14 Thread Walter Bender
For non-XO Sugar, it would be nice to be able to log out as oppose to shutdown. (Yes, you can always ctrl-alt-delete, but that is not exactly friendly.) -walter On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/13 Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Giovanna: Why not to enable shut-down from the XO icon of any of the standard view? The icon is always there in the middle of screen but works only in one... (in general, maybe enabling the hoovering menu in all of

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Then we should not have a shutdown button at all :) Even though this comment was accompanied by a smiley, a software shutdown button somewhere is useful. I use a wired connection, and therefore don't use suspend: suspend stops the wired connection, and resume does not restart it correctly.

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Jerome Gotangco
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then we should not have a shutdown button at all :) Even though this comment was accompanied by a smiley, a software shutdown button somewhere is useful. I agree with this. I was with my (almost) 7 year old daughter

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then we should not have a shutdown button at all :) Even though this comment was accompanied by a smiley, a software shutdown button somewhere is useful. Sure, I was ironic... The point was that shutdown is a use

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 13.10.2008 um 15:35 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: jerome wrote: I agree with this. I was with my (almost) 7 year old daughter yesterday and she was studying scratch with 767 and after an hour of playing around, she told me that she wants to turn it off (the XO) but she couldn't determine

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Carlo Falciola
- Messaggio originale - Da: Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: sugar@lists.laptop.org; Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: Lunedì 13 ottobre 2008, 15:26:18 Oggetto: Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simon wrote

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
Carlo Falciola wrote: - Messaggio originale - Da: Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: sugar@lists.laptop.org; Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: Lunedì 13 ottobre 2008, 15:26:18 Oggetto: Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: But this power-button UI could be in addition to a regular menu, which should not be invoked from the home view but from the frame's device section. A computer device was already brought up for something else that I

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Carlo Falciola
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.dewrote: But this power-button UI could be in addition to a regular menu, which should not be invoked from the home view but from the frame's device section. A computer device was already brought up for something else

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
Carlo Falciola wrote: Hi, during past week-end I spent a few hours playing with the 676 -Candidate , mainly in order to check translated strings here an there. Then let my very personal user base (My children: Nicola, 7 and Giovanna, 6) to play a bit with the updated XO. After these

[sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Carlo Falciola
Hi, during past week-end I spent a few hours playing with the 676 -Candidate , mainly in order to check translated strings here an there. Then let my very personal user base (My children: Nicola, 7 and Giovanna, 6) to play a bit with the updated XO. After these user sessions we have a very

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread pgf
simon wrote: Carlo Falciola wrote: Giovanna: Why not to enable shut-down from the XO icon of any of the standard view? The icon is always there in the middle of screen but works only in one... (in general, maybe enabling the hoovering menu in all of the views Home,

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread pgf
jerome wrote: I agree with this. I was with my (almost) 7 year old daughter yesterday and she was studying scratch with 767 and after an hour of playing around, she told me that she wants to turn it off (the XO) but she couldn't determine how as there is no obvious way of doing so from

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
You brought this idea on irc a few weeks ago, which I liked a lot, and Eben too If I remember it right. That a device icon representing the laptop be added to the frame, having the menu to shutdown, reboot, and control panel (or system settings). The XO figure would only have about me which would