Design Team/0.88 Meeting

When/Where

• date: 2010-01-16 16:00 UTC == 17:00:00 CET == 11:00 EST
• place: #sugar-meeting on irc freenode

Important Dates

• Jan 18 Feature Acceptance: Acceptance of the features following the Features/Policy.
• Feb 01 Feature Freeze: No new features will be accepted for this release period.
• Feb 15 UI Freeze: Major UI revisions or changes must be done before this date.

Topics

Open

Resume/Start new on the Home View

• Mailing list discussion

3G Support

Allow the Sugar user to connect to 3G networks.

• Feature Page
• Design: A device will be added to the frame when a modem is connected, and the user will be able to connect and disconnect from there. Also, a section will be added to the control panel that will allow entering the details needed by the connection.
• Needed: Icon to represent the connection in the frame, layout control panel section

Write to Journal anytime

Replacement for the Naming Alert that lets you write to the Journal at any time while working on an activity.

• Feature Page
• Mailing list discussion
• Proposal of option in the activity toolbar.

Font configuration

Users need a way to be able to customize the Sugar font size.

• Feature page
• Needed: Control Panel section to increase/decrease the font size, icon for section, section layout

Thumbs View in Journal

• Feature Page implemented alsroot 03:43, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Enhanced Color Selector

This is an enhancement to the color selector used in the About Me control panel and the initialization screen (same behavior but a different code base). It enables the user to cycle through color choices as well as jump randomly, which is the current default behavior.

• Feature Page
• Mailing list discussion
• The latest question was: Do we need the color selector in the start-screen at all?

'+' layout

'+' layout and do not mess changed/unchanged colors for "arrows"

grid of predefined colors

Moved

Tags in Journal

• Design Page
• moved to 0.90

Multiple selections in the Journal

• Mailing list discussion
• moved to 0.90

Drag icon

What image should be used for drag icon for:

• list view
• thumbs view

Sugars <0.84 used nasty default icon, 0.86 uses default TreeView method - row snapshot. Last method will look nice especially for thumb view but there is an issue, draging large row(list view) or cell(thumbs view) user doesn't see target drop place e.g. icon in volume list
Design_Team/Designs/Frame#15 mockup was implemented alsroot 02:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Is it right if only widgets(Journal related, pure text from could be dragged as usual) that could be dragged are object icon in list view and thumb in thumbs view?

• implementing scheme when any space in row(list view) and cell(thumbs view) could be dragged is(of course) possible in new journal but requires not obvious coding
• does it make sense if empty space(in list view row) could be dragged as journal object, moreover it's easy to make a mistake and drag wrong object

Hover over mode

Should ObjectChooser highlight current item, <=0.84 has this feature, 0.86 doesn't.