2013/3/25 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Manuel Quiñones <ma...@laptop.org> 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 the >> XO colors and very light, almost white. (Knowledge on Munsell colors >> is required to develop it) > > I am pleased to see the reference to Munsell. (I used Munsell in part > to help with the design of the original set of XO colors and use it in > the Color Deducto activity). But I think if we were to go this route, > we won't need to burden the end user with needing to know about > Munsell; we can add a hue/value/chroma family for each XO color from > which we could improvise as part of xocolor.py. It'd be a nice > addition independent of this particular feature proposal.
Sorry for the confusion. I was proposing that Sugar automatically sets the third color as a function of the other two. > -walter >> >> Future: >> >> - add a Shapes activity to design the shapes. >> >> What do you think? Of course, we'll need developer hands for this. >> >> 2013/3/25 Manuel Quiñones <ma...@laptop.org>: >>> Testing the latest patch.. >>> >>> 2013/3/25 Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org>: >>>> 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 >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> I would like to know more about why is this a long requested feature, >>> who requests for it. I suspect the requirement could come from people >>> who is used to conventional PCs, not from kids whos first interaction >>> with a computer is the XO. >>> >>> From the wiki page, I can't distinguish the good background examples >>> from the bad ones. All look preety obstrusive to me. In fact I can't >>> think how a good background could be. Its colors should be far from >>> the grey outline, and far from the user colors too. And the main >>> problem is that the user colors are different for each user, so a >>> background that works for a user could not work for the others. In >>> case including this, a good testing contest could be: given a >>> background, provide the XO colors that make it fail. >>> >>> In case we have concensus including this, I have noticed that: >>> >>> - Adding it only in the home view kills the ilussion of having three >>> zoom views. The background should be displayed in all three, I think. >>> >>> - I see the home view is not correctly aligned in the vertical axis. >>> >>> - Why it needs a restart? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> .. manuq .. >> >> >> >> -- >> .. manuq .. >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel