[Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

[Gary C Martin]

On 19 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi Eben/other interested victims,
>
> I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've designed things) some
> interfaces that allow for switching between Sugar and GNOME for the
> XO-1.5 builds. I'm looking for feedback on the design and any
> suggestions/contributions.
>
> By default, laptops boot straight up into Sugar.
> But you might notice a new icon in the control panel named "Switch
> desktop"
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-controlpanel.png
>
> If we click on that, under normal circumstances you will see:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-active-sugar.png
>
> Then, when you click the "Switch to GNOME" button, it will look like
> this:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-active-gnome.png
>
> And if everything works right, this one will never be seen, but allows
> for an escape route if something goes wrong:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-active-unknown.png
>
> When you're in GNOME, there is an icon that says "Switch to Sugar" on
> the desktop. It's also on the Applications menu, under System. When  
> you
> click on it, it brings up a dialog box that tells you to restart and
> then you'll be back in Sugar again.
> In this screenshot you can see the desktop item, the menu item, and  
> the
> output dialog box:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/gnome-ui.png
>
> Code for all of that is at
> git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/olpc-switch-desktop
> (latest updates to be pushed in a few minutes)
>
> The Logout menu item in sugar is disabled. It's still there in GNOME,
> but I'll look for a way to hide it. (when you logout, it just  
> basically
> restarts the desktop environment, so it's kind of pointless. A  
> reboot is
> acceptable for changing DE, and the logout concept is confusing when
> there wasn't any logging in to begin with.)
>
> Thoughts?

Hey, great to see this moving along. Screen shots look real good to me!

Regards,
--Gary