FYI, I acquired a Gen1 Classmate with 7" screen (an Olidata JumPc) for testing purposes two years ago and with Martin Langhoff's help filed a ticket on this issue:
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/868 this photo of mine may be helpful to see what we're talking about: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656470@N02/3648785920/in/photostream I remember being told that there were no plans to scale Sugar screens to work with 480, that 600 was the minimum Sean On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 17 Jun 2011, at 14:42, Esteban Bordón wrote: > >> Thanks. >> >> We'll try to start to fix the most interest activities. > > Thanks for your screenshots. I've created a ticket for Cartoon Builder, > TamTamMini, and Distance, if you could report and take more screenshots of > other activities you discover that would be very helpful: > > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2900 > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2901 > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2902 > > Some background FWIW: Much of Sugar and its activities were designed with the > 1200x900 screen in mind, luckily with the XO screen rotation feature most > developers were also often reminded and aware of needing to make sure their > design layouts were flexible enough to work at 900x1200. When Sugar Labs was > spun off from OLPC to work on Sugar, there was much effort from SL to make > Sugar more hardware agnostic and work on more traditional laptops, part of > this meant that 1024x768 was much more commonly being used and tested by > developers; and the default when running Sugar in a window under Gnome was > 800x600, which has been generally treated as the worst case scenario. So it's > that 480 vertical pixels count, a reduction of 120 from our assumed worst > case, that's catching some of us out ;-) > > Regards, > --Gary > >> regards, >> >> Esteban. >> >> >> 2011/6/17 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Esteban Bordón >> <ebor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote: >> > In most cases the problem is specific of the activities, then people must >> > modify the activities one by one. >> > >> > >> > 2011/6/16 Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> >> >> >> >> 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: i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; yamap...@gmail.com; >> >> sugar-devel@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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education >> >> Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >> > >> >> I've created a ticket to track the Journal Detail View problem: >> >> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2899 >> >> regards. >> >> -walter >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
