-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sevior wrote: | Hi Folks, | Just so you know. The only reason for #7447 is because we | haven't put the UI in to enable it.
I would like an additional control for background color. Eben, what do you think? | I'm not sure different colors for different users is such a good idea | though. The document will quickly become a mess. Though if the kids | want to do this they can. Have you used Gobby? It's the shared editor that people at OLPC _actually_ use, and having per-user background colors is among its key features. The colors are stripped for print; clearing the text colors in a Write document is similarly easy. Per-user coloring could work even better in Write, because text has a foreground and background color, and each user also has a foreground color and a background color that appear all over the UI. Those colors are guaranteed to have good contrast against each other, as required in the rest of the UI. Automatically setting the user's text to those settings in a shared Write session would make it instantly obvious who is typing what. I would most prefer a design in which the scheme is black on white by default. When the first user shares the document, the text entry colors are converted to her XO colors, but the existing text is not altered. As each user joins, that person's colors are set to their XO colors, but users may modify their color settings at any time after join+share. It occurs to me that this may work best if colors can be made more "sticky", so that anything I type keeps my current colors, not the colors of the text I've selected or am typing into. This is a tricky UI question, which I will leave to the UI folks. Perhaps a "sticky" checkbox next to the color selectors that checks itself upon sharing? - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh/9LYACgkQUJT6e6HFtqTiFQCgiwn7n2I5FT253t30YxDAN57M D2wAn0Qaw5gkl/4X/wOsQwYjZ13g/pXw =ovJY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar