Hi All, Following on from:
http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03#mon-mar-8--children-want-sugar-084-for-the-wrong-reasons The most popular request on the ground here follows from the same thing that kids will do with any device that they feel ownership of: let's make it colourful. It would be great if they could choose their own colours for the grays that are currently around at the moment. Wallpaper would be great as well - particularly if they could take that from their image activities in the journal for example. That said just having their own choice of colours would put a smile on a lot of faces around here. That was even the number one remark of the prev deputy minister of teacher training and curriculum! I know it sounds hollow - but from the field here in Afghanistan: 1. Appearances matter quite a lot more in the east than they do in the west. If you look back at western history many things used to be fancier. If it doesn't look nice it's obvious no one has put any effort into it and it's not that great. There are so many more coloured car lights, xmas lights in trees all year, etc etc. That's the culture. 2. For kids / child ownership - kids putting stickers on things should be a hint! It's also a great way to let kids show off their paint / photo creations etc. Kids want to make things their own - so this would seem appropriate. Does anyone have any rough estimates on what it would take to get this done? Unfortunately I'm too busy with EXE development to facilitate content at the moment to have the chance right now (new version of that with math drills, reading exercises, crossword and more in the works there). I think most people in deployments would agree that this feature ranks consistently highly and surely would be just a matter of making a control panel app, a couple gconf keys, and a little bit of hacking the gtk theme I guess. I'd also be willing to put up for a bounty. Any others with me on that? I put $200 on the table right now. Regards, -Mike _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
