[Sugar-devel] Dbus signal when ebook switch is activated

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> sascha wrote:
>  > Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Oct 14 22:09:09 +0200
> 2010:
>  >
>  > > It's simple and it's explained in http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10396
>  >
>  > At least in Read (and in most if not all activities), the dpad should
>  > work the same regardless of whether the keyboard is available (non-ebook
>  > mode) or not (ebook mode).
>  >
>  > Thus there's no reason to query the ebook mode switch in the first
>  > place.
>
> i suspect the point is that in "normal" mode it's okay for the
> focus to be "elsewhere", since there's a touchpad with which to
> change the focus.  in ebook mode, that's not the case -- if focus
> isn't on the text area, then you're stuck, and have to open the
> laptop to click.
>
>
Yes, this is the problem. A novice user is confused about why the dpad don't
work.

Gonzalo


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