Features/Variable-Appearance-of-Buddy-Icon

Summary

This feature is a modification to the existing XO icon on the Sugar desktop. The XO icon will now change based on the number of journal entries, battery status, and disk usage.

Owner

Name: Hrishi Patel
Email: Hrishi Patel <hrishipatel99@gmail.com>

Current status

Targeted release: 0.115-0.116
Last updated: 30th August 2019
Percentage of completion: 70%

Detailed Description

The XO icon on the Sugar desktop changes according to:
- Number of Journal entries. If number of journal entries are less than 10, the embryo will be the style. If the number of journal entries is between 10 and 50, Teen style is selected. For more than 50 journal entries, the Adult style will be selected.
- Battery status. Badges are shown if a battery is detected. The badge uses the existing battery icon in the Sugar artwork.
- Disk usage. Currently, the icons will only change for when disk status is below 50%, greater than 50% or greater than 90%. The stroke size of the icons will change accordingly.
Provides a setting (GSettings) to enable or disable the feature.

In future, the widget will be based on Cairo and will not be using icons for the styles.

Benefit to Sugar

This feature provides a visual update to the existing XO icon on the Sugar desktop. The user will know more about their Journal, their disk and battery status from the Desktop. The idea was to make the XO icon adapt according to the properties state above for better user experience.

Scope

What work do the developers have to accomplish to complete the feature in time for release? Is it a large change affecting many parts of the distribution or is it a very isolated change? What are those changes?

Review my pull request and commits for the changes I make.
documentation changes.
testing the feature as I make changes.

The feature is implemented in buddyicon.py (jarabe/view/buddyicon.py). The code at extension/deviceicon/battery was also modified. A gsetting was added to make enabling the feature optional.

UI Design

No direct impact on the workflow. The artwork was changed (https://github.com/Hrishi1999/sugar-artwork/tree/tamagotchi-widget). In future, Cairo will be used to draw the icon instead of using too many icons.

How To Test

Use this branch to test changes: https://github.com/Hrishi1999/sugar/tree/tamagotchi-widget-feature To test battery badges, the device must be battery-equipped. You will notice a changes to XO icon on Desktop.

User Experience

You will notice that the XO icon on Sugar desktop will change according to the properties state above (journal entries, disk usage, and battery)

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Contingency Plan

None necessary, revert to previous release behavior.

Documentation

See PR #852 at https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/852

Release Notes

Variable Appearance of Buddy Icon