>From my experience with first-time Sugar users in Mozambique, I've come up with a list of UI changes that would help:
1) EASY: kill the name picker that pops up when quitting activities. Nobody ever uses it, it's just annoying and confusing for new users who don't know how to dismiss it. Maybe one day someone will come out with a less intrusive UI for the same purpose, but for the time being we're much better off without anything. 2) EASY: kill the "Mute" function on the volume icon in the frame. I can't think of a useful use-case for it, and children often manage to turn on muting by simply clicking on the speaker icon (which is a lame UI, btw). If we remove this feature, we have to unconditionally unmute on startup! 3) MEDIUM: Figure out why so many control panels require restarting Sugar, and fix them not to. Because we use GConf for settings, we should be able to setup callbacks to be invoked on any change. Removing existing features is always hard in free software, as there's always some user who advocates in favor of keeping them. As consumers, it's hard for us to cope with the sense of "loss", even if the feature had no practical value for us. If we can't get these proposals approved upstream, perhaps we can make them configurable. IMHO, it sucks to add a knob every time we fail to find consensus, but it's still a little better than maintaining off-tree patches. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel