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Features/Background image on home view (view source)
Revision as of 15:18, 5 November 2013
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[[Category:Feature|Background image on home view]]
[[Category:FeatureLanded|Background image on home view]]
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== Current status ==
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: 0.100
* Targeted release: 0.100 or 1.0
* Last updated: 22.03.2013
* Last updated: 22.03.2013
* Percentage of completion: 90%
* Percentage of completion: 90%
== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==
With Sugar already ported to Gtk3, changing the background in the Home View is easier than before. The image can be set from the Sugar control panel, selecting from the backgrounds in /usr/share/backgrounds or in the Documents folder.
== Benefit to Sugar ==
== Benefit to Sugar ==
== User Experience ==
== User Experience ==
We need images where the icons are not confused with the background.
See the following examples with bad and good images:
<gallery>
File:Background_feature_example1.png
File:Background_feature_example2.png
File:Background_feature_example3.png
File:Background_feature_example4.png
File:Background_feature_example5.png
File:Background_feature_example6.png
</gallery>
== Dependencies ==
== Dependencies ==
== Documentation ==
== Documentation ==
The actual implementation was coded by Agustin Zubiaga for the GCI contest [1]. The following improvements can be useful:
* If there are many images to read, the control panel screen takes time to load, should be good load the images after open the section, or change the mouse cursor to show a clock. (or both)
* Should be good monitor the change in the gconf value, without need restart sugar to see the change in the background.
* Should be good add a label to communicate to the user he can put images in the Documents folder to select.
* Right now, the code try to open every file in the Documents directory. Should be good test if is one image.
[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/Homeview_image
=== Counter proposal ===
Manual has a counter proposal [1] which would tile the background with a pattern.
[1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-March/042111.html
== Release Notes ==
== Release Notes ==