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

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Perfect, that makes a lot of sense.


> 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.
>

So you mean that the battery or wifi devices in the frame would have an
"extra options" item in the palette that would jump to the corresponding
option-page in the CP?

Thanks for the quick and clear answers! :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer
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