On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One intent for the OLPC is "to replace textbooks". Good "human > factors" facilities ought to be provided for manipulating the > displayed information when the OLPC is configured in handheld mode. > Judging by the number of comments I have read, the 65x builds did > not achieve that.
A while ago I hacked together a very crude, but usable, image/book-viewer for the OLPC (only supports jpgs, pngs, etc, not pdf), haven't found the time to clean that up or turn it into a proper Sugar application (has to be started from shell), it however demonstrates a little menu system for use in eBook mode: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/imgview-2008-05-03.tar.bz2 It is far from perfect, but I kind of like how the circle-button lets a circular menu appear, via the direction keys one can then select submenus and stuff. The way it current works requires that the circle button to be held down while the menu is active, which is a little impractical and should probably be changed. Anyway, maybe this can serve as inspiration for anybody. -- WWW: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/ Blog: http://grumbel.blogspot.com/ JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 59461927 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
