[Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 11/12/2009 09:32 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>> Thanks for all the feedback.
>
> Hi Walter,
>
> thanks for your work on this Feature and for using the Feature Policy.
> Your Feature has been accepted for the 0.88 sucrose release cycle for
> the following reasons:
>
> - your Feature is supported by the community (as seen in this email
> thread) and backed up by many requests from the field
> - a design is available and has been discussed (in this thread too)
> - you have been following the Feature policy guidelines [1]
> - a full Feature page is available [2]

yeah :)

> The Feature has been accepted and is listed at the 0.88 Feature page [3].
>
> It would be great to land this Feature in the next development release
> (Sucrose 0.87.2) [4]. Please work with the maintainer of the Sugar
> module [5] (Tomeu) to include it.
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Enhanced_color_selector
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Feature_List
> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Modules
>
> ----

Should be doable, depending on how ambitious we get about refactoring
me of the existing code.

> A few questions:
> - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option
> still available in the latest design?

This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the
code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as
before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team.

> - you mention a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Z), which is a standard way to
> undo an action: is it right that the undo option is removed and that
> this shortcut is then not needed anymore, too?

There is an invisiable icon that provides the undo fuctionality. (I
think thatit is important if we keep the random function.) I do have a
technical probem to sort out with Tomeu regarding the various widgets
I am using for the buttons. I cannot seem to find a way to include
both keyboard accelration and the ability to update the icon color
either in Suar toolkit or in the hulahop code. Hence the comment above
about more invasive changes.

> Thanks,
>    Simon

Thank you.

-walter
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