[Bugs] #2282 UNSP: Don't require the user to experiment to find out what the color-selector icons are for

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#2282: Don't require the user to experiment to find out what the color-selector
icons are for
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    Reporter:  mikus                      |          Owner:                             
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  untriaged                  |        Version:  0.90.x                     
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  OLPC                       |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by mikus):

 Replying to [comment:10 walter]:
 > I don't see any disconnect. There are two things going on here: a corner
 case in the implementation of the USER INTERFACE that was tripping you up
 -- I needed to understand how the COMPUTER works in order to diagnose the
 problem -- and a disagreement whether or not the USER can learn the
 INTERFACE without consulting additional documentation -- I think yes, but
 understand why the corner case led to your confusion and your doubts. I
 don't think it is a matter of how many icons: the icon you click is the
 colors you get.
 My confusion came from being faced with five colored icons - and not
 knowing what to do with them.  I've been thinking about how I would use
 the sugar-0.89.8 implementation, and this is what I came up with:
 {{{
     The procedure I've decided to use for changing the center icon color
 combination:

       (1)   Think of a 'stroke' color I would like to use
         (1b)  If I have already tried as described all the available
 'stroke' colors,
                 and I haven't found any 'stroke/fill' combination that I
 would like
                 to use,  give up and exit 'About Me' with the X (cancel)
 button

       (2)   Select __one__ left_side icon to be used in step (3c), in case
 it becomes
                 necessary to "cycle" through all the 'fill' color tables
                 [Note:  some 'fill' colors support fewer 'stroke' colors]
       (3)   Select __one__ right_side icon for use in steps (3a) and (3b).
         (3a)  If the selected right_side icon shows the 'stroke' color I
 am looking for,
                 click once on that icon to "push" that 'stroke' color onto
 the left_side
                 (and center) icons.  If the center icon now has the color
 combination
                 I want, go to step (6), else go to step (4)
         (3b)  Click repeatedly ("cycle") on that selected right_side icon.
 When it
                 "previews" the 'stroke' color I am looking for, go to step
 (3a)
         (3c)  If the 'stroke' colors gotten in step (3b) are repeating
 without my
                 desired color coming up,  click the left_side icon
 (selected in step(2))
                 to change the 'fill' color of the right_side icons - then
 repeat
                 step (3) - stil looking for that 'stroke' color I want
         (3d)  If the wanted 'stroke' color has never come up but the
 'fill' colors
                 gotten in step (3c) are repeating -- forget that
 particular 'stroke'
                 color and start again with step (1)

       (4)   Think of a 'fill' color I would like to use with the 'stroke'
 color I have
       (5)   Select __one__ left_side icon (which has the 'stroke' color
 from step (3a)),
                 for use in steps (5a) and (5b)
         (5a)  If I like the color combination now shown in the selected
 left_side icon,
                 click once on that icon to "push" that color combination
 onto the
                 center icon;  then go to step (6)
         (5b)  Click repeatedly ("cycle") on that selected left_side icon.
 When it
                 "previews" the 'fill' color I am looking for, go to step
 (5a)
         (5c)  If the 'fill' colors gotten in step (5b) are repeating
 without my desired
                 color coming up,  think of an alternate 'fill' color to go
 with the
                 'stroke' color from step (3a) - then go back to step (5) -
 now looking
                 for that alternate 'fill' color
         (5d)  If none of the 'fill' colors look the way I want with the
 'stroke' color
                 from step (3a),  forget that 'stroke' color and start
 again with step (1)

       (6)   If I want to set the system's XO color with the color
 combination now shown
                 by the center icon -- exit 'About Me' using the
 "checkmark" button
         (6b)  If this was a "dry run" -- exit 'About Me' using the X
 (cancel) button
 }}}
 My procedure would be a lot for a six year old child.  My guess is that a
 six year old child would have the patience to keep clicking semi-randomly,
 until he saw a color combination he liked,

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2282#comment:12>
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