[Sugar-devel] Problem with Read activity and screen rotate feature

[Samuel Greenfeld]

It was a design decision (at least initially) to not rotate the Game 
Buttons, as users might associate their symbols (square, circle, etc.) 
to mean certain things.  If there is a compelling reason to do this 
perhaps it should be revisited.

I admit that this does not work well for all activities.  Another 
activity which gets confused by this is Maze, which can use the 
directional pad and game buttons to add additional players on each XO 
using/sharing the activity.


On 11/17/10 13:29, Daniel Castelo wrote:
> Thanks for the information!
> I've tested the build 351. I realize that the "Directional Pad" change 
> the Behaviour when the screen rotate. Great!
>
> However, in the Read Activity the "Directional Pad" is useful for go 
> forward line per line, but if you want to change the page you have to 
> use the "Game Buttons". So, for Read Activity will be useful adapt the 
> "Game Buttons" too. What do you think?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de 
> <mailto:simon at schampijer.de>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/17/2010 05:37 PM, Daniel Castelo wrote:
>
>         We want to read books using the rotate screen capability of
>         XO.  We have a
>         small problem,  if we open a book (pdf, epub) and we rotate
>         the screen,  the
>         game pad buttons have the same use that the screen in a normal
>         position, I
>         mean that user have to click in the "left game pad" button
>         (the down button
>         in horizontal position) to go to the next page.
>
>         I think that all the game pad buttons have to be adapted
>         according the
>         screen position. We want to know how can we catch the rotate
>         screen event,
>         and be sure that this change in "Read" behaviour activity has
>         sense.
>
>         Regards, Daniel
>
>
>     Hi Daniel,
>
>     this has been fixed in the recent OLPC builds [1]. The ticket is
>     #10380 [2]. Please let us know if that works for you now.
>
>     Regards,
>       Simon
>
>     [1] http://build.laptop.org/10.1.3/
>     [2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10380
>
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