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 children: Nicola, 7 and Giovanna, 6) > to play a bit with the updated XO. > > After these "user sessions" we have a very personal wish list and small > inputs for the next software iteration that we would like to share: > > 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 activity that > it is more a "learn to read a clock" thing than an everyday tool). any > feedback and suggestion regarding how and where to put/show it are welcomed.
I personally would like to see this built. I've always thought that a "clock device" would fit perfectly into the bottom edge of the Frame. I'd really like to see us rework the devices a bit so that they are more naturally "pluggable" (at most, the user would only have to add one directory at some location in the system to add a new device). In the future perhaps we can extend this to a user-facing management of installed devices. Apart from the trickiness (and potential CPU hit) of dynamically updating the clock icon (I envision an analog clock here, with digital display and date and/or calendar in the palette, so granularity would be on the order of a minute or so). > 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, Neighborhood, Group could make sense and could be reasonably easy to > do....) I definitely thought I filed a ticket years ago about making the palettes consistent in the views. I can't find it now, so I must be mistaken, but I agree this is something to aim for. I also think that the addition of a "computer" device to the Frame might be worth considering, but we should all think carefully about what it means, and how it relates to the Journal, before diving into that solution. > Nicola: Should be nice to have a bit more feedback regarding already running > activity into the home view, since now he has a more "immediate" approach to > the system and he is not, as now, yet really interested to the past story of > his interaction to the system, so he do not care ('till now) so much of the > journal and frame. > For his approach a visual hints of running activities (let's say the activity > icon in the circle to became colored and switch default click acton to be > resume ), maybe could be more useful for his basic approach.... Have you looked at the recent designs posted on the wiki, regarding the new Home view? The current implementation is only half the story, and I hope the second half appears in Sugar soon. We should make sure the other half, which exposes recent activities, is actually an adequate solution. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Activity_Management - Eben > > I'm really sorry not to be/feel to master coding yet enoght in order to back > those ideas with any code, but anyway I think it is reasonable to share the > experience. > > grazie a tutti > > Carlo > (+ Nicola e Giovanna) > > > > Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail: > Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione. > http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar