[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Olidata computers in Uruguay

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Esteban Bordón
<ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> In most cases the problem is specific of the activities, then people must
> modify the activities one by one.
>
>
> 2011/6/16 Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>>
>> Hello Esteban (and all),
>> It would be wonderful if you or someone else could write up some very easy
>> to follow instructions for doing the screen scaling, in Spanish, for the
>> teachers in Uruguay.  Don't assume anything.  Pretend the teacher is a total
>> beginner (on the Olidata many will be). Make it a "Grannie's Guide" type
>> document and they will love you forever for doing it!
>> Caryl (aka "GrannieB")
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy
>> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:58:43 -0300
>> To: garycmartin at googlemail.com
>> CC: IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org; yamaplos at gmail.com;
>> sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Olidata computers in Uruguay
>>
>> > One of the most noticeable source for incompatibilities seems to be
>> > screen definition, 800x600 in the Olidata, and thus several Activities are
>> > cropped,
>>
>> Screen definition is 800x480 ...
>>
>>
>> Ouch, quite a few Activity toolbars will likely overflow at 800x600
>> (overflow widgets land in a drop down menu in the far right of the toolbar
>> that shows the text from the tool button hint only). The XO is a 1200x900
>> screen, about a year or two back there was general consensus that we should
>> try and make sure Activities worked well down too 1024x768 as that was
>> common in emulated environments and regular laptops/desktops.
>>
>> These 800x600 display machines will want to make sure they are running
>> Sugar using an environmental variable of  SUGAR_SCALING=72, this will shrink
>> the UI scale down to fit the lower screen resolution. SUGAR_SCALING
>> currently only has an effect at either 72 (works well for 800x600 and
>> 1024x768) or 100 (for 1200x900 or larger).
>>
>> With SUGAR_SCALING=72 Sugar have some problems showing  properties of a
>> journal entry for example. I trying to set lower values of SUGAR_SCALING but
>> I have not getting good results.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Esteban.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education
>> Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
>

I've created a ticket to track the Journal Detail View problem:

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2899

regards.

-walter

-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org