2009/8/8 NoiseEHC <noise...@freemail.hu>: > > So accessing the frame in ebook mode - is probably not something you do in > your ebook workflow (at least on an olpc without touchpad support). > > > > Correct - and dedicating a frame button on the tablet mode is probably > something I would not do (we don't have too many buttons accessible in > tablet mode) > > > Incorrect. Since I use the XO-1 for reading ebooks while traveling with > public transport regurarly, I can clearly see the need for not only frame > support but for handling the laptop from the keyboard even in ebook mode. > What important is that volume/brightness level and magnification (and > anything activity specific) should be available from ebook mode at least via > some menu (and no submenus please). > You should not dedicate a full button to this menu, probably holding the > rotate screen button for 1 sec is the correct method activating this menu > (which would take over cursor keys and the 4 game buttons), and while the > menu is on screen, pressing the rotate screen button would hide it. (It also > requires to activate screen rotation when the rotate screen button is > released, not when it is pressed. Also it could have some delay so pressing > 3 times fast in a row would rotate to the other direction, no need to reflow > and redraw the screen 3 times.) >
Holding buttons does not work in current stable builds (both 8.2.x and F11 based) due to a bug in Xorg (XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat() does not seem to work correctly). That's why there is a major crisis of button real estate in ebook mode right now :-) Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel