[Sugar-devel] Putting stuff in the control panel vs. the frame

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <
christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> looking at some of ParaguayEduca's latest builds I saw that they have added
> some new icons / features to the frame (e.g. CPU / memory consumption,
> accessibility, touchpad-mode, etc.)
>
> I talked to Bernie about this and we realized that there currently doesn't
> seem to be a clear consensus on what kind of features should go into the
> frame and which ones into the control panel. One could easily argue that
> some sparsely populated CP options could be removed and the options instead
> added to the corresponding frame devices (particularly power and network
> options come to mind here). Or on the contrary that things like the
> touchpad-mode should be accessed from within the CP rather than the frame.
>
> Anyway, I was wondering what people here thought about this issue.
>

I think that the dominant factor in the choice of what to show should be the
frequency with which the information or controls are used. If a setting is
changed frequently by a child within a single "session" it's a good
candidate for a device icon in the Frame. If the setting is, more often than
not, set and then forgotten it should exist only within the Control Panel,
where it won't distract from more important information and controls.

I also agree with the idea Tomeu brought up; I think linking to the
corresponding section of the Contol Panel from any devices that have
additional settings makes a lot of sense.

Eben


> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
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