Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Replies to different questions and proposals: > From the wiki page, I can't distinguish the good background examples from the bad ones I was using the backgrounds provided by fedora 18, as examples. They are no so good for us as you said. I see two ways to have good backgrounds: preserve the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-26 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2013/3/25 Walter Bender : > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> Counter-proposal: add tiled backgrounds >> >> Mockup: http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/bg-mockup.png >> >> - let the user select a shape (star, football, animal footsteps, etc) >> - the color of the shapes is sele

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-26 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2013/3/25 Walter Bender : > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> 2013/3/25 Martin Langhoff : >>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: My first impression is that this feature can potentially hurt the clean design of Sugar at some points: >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > Counter-proposal: add tiled backgrounds > > Mockup: http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/bg-mockup.png > > - let the user select a shape (star, football, animal footsteps, etc) > - the color of the shapes is selected by Sugar as the opposite to t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > 2013/3/25 Martin Langhoff : >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >>> My first impression is that this feature can potentially hurt the >>> clean design of Sugar at some points: >>> >>> - the icons color semantic >>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2013/3/25 Martin Langhoff : > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> My first impression is that this feature can potentially hurt the >> clean design of Sugar at some points: >> >> - the icons color semantic >> - high contrast, accesibility > > Agreed. IMHO it can be improved

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > My first impression is that this feature can potentially hurt the > clean design of Sugar at some points: > > - the icons color semantic > - high contrast, accesibility Agreed. IMHO it can be improved by applying a "washout" -- mix the im

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Manuel Quiñones
Counter-proposal: add tiled backgrounds Mockup: http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/bg-mockup.png - let the user select a shape (star, football, animal footsteps, etc) - the color of the shapes is selected by Sugar as the opposite to the XO colors and very light, almost white. (Knowledge on Munsell co

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Manuel Quiñones
Testing the latest patch.. 2013/3/25 Gonzalo Odiard : > Good catch. > > Replaced by the more pythonic: > > def _update_background_image(self, *args): > self._background_pixbuf = None > if BACKGROUND_IMAGE_PATH and os.path.exists(BACKGROUND_IMAGE_PATH): > try: > > Go

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-25 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Good catch. Replaced by the more pythonic: def _update_background_image(self, *args): self._background_pixbuf = None if BACKGROUND_IMAGE_PATH and os.path.exists(BACKGROUND_IMAGE_PATH): try: Gonzalo On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Ajay Garg wrote: > Hi Gonzal

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Ajay Garg
Hi Gonzalo. Thanks for this awesome feature !! Just one small issue : I tried it on sugar-build, and sugar failed to start, because "BACKGROUND_IMAGE_PATH" was None. Changing the method "_update_background_image" to def _update_background_image(self, *args): self._background_pixbuf

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Is the way the draw is done in gtk. The eventbox is not a Image where you load a image and then is draw when needed. Gonzalo On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:42 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Not a blocking question: but why wait until the draw callback of the > eventbox before calling cairo? Can this no

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread James Cameron
Not a blocking question: but why wait until the draw callback of the eventbox before calling cairo? Can this not be done in the widget creation? Reviewed-by: James Cameron -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
A one line change in the patch. This patch replace the previous. Gonzalo 0001-Add-a-section-in-the-control-panel-to-configure-the-.patch Description: Binary data ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/li