Features/Display section for control panel

Summary

This is an enhancement to the Control Panel that enables the section of an external display on non-OLPC XO hardware.

Owner

• Name: Walter Bender
• Email: <walter at sugarlabs dot org>

Current status

• Targeted release: (0.90)
• Last updated: (06 June 2010)
• Percentage of completion: 0%

This feature is being tracked in Ticket XXXX.

Benefit to Sugar

There are times when you would like to be able to attach a projector to your Sugar presentation. It would be convenient to be able to do this through the control panel rather than from the command line.

Scope

To implement this feature:

• a new icons were added to share/icons/sugar/scalable/devices:

vga.svg

• a new section was added to sugar/extensions/cpsection

display

• a new icon was added to sugar/data/icons

module_display.svg

How To Test

Features/Display section for control panel/Testing

User Experience

When a projector is available, it is great to be able to take advantage of it. This will make it easy for a teacher unfamiliar with the command line and xrandr to enable VGA out.

Note that the section only will appear on non-XO hardware. There is no change to user experience with Sugar on XO platforms.

Dependencies

No additional dependencies are required to implement this feature.

Contingency Plan

None necessary, revert to previous release behavior.

Release Notes

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Comments and Discussion

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