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

[Esteban Bordón]

In fact, Sugar working quite well, the main problem is that in many
activities does not using the function zoom defined in
sugar/graphics/style.py and doesn't scale well.

I attach some screenshots.

regards,

 Esteban Bordón
Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal
Centro Ceibal - Av. Italia 6201 - Montevideo, Uruguay


2011/6/16 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Esteban Bordón
> <ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> >> > 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).
>
> Hmm. I routinely run Sugar in a VM at 800x600 and it is -- with very
> few exceptions -- working quite well. I've not tried 800x480 in a
> while... not ideal, but it should generally work. Can you describe
> some of the specific problems you are encountering?
>
> -walter
>
>
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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