[Sugar-devel] Feedback about ticket #10122

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Benjamin
Thanks for review.
I don't know if you have time now, but I can devote a few hours to Distance.
I understand your concern about the volume change.

"Maybe the right answer is to print some warning text if the system volume
is too low. I think a better patch would probably show the user the
amplitude of the last received signal and the noise floor. This is easy to
measure, but I'm not sure how to display it in the GUI."

If you can tell me how detect the volume from the signal it's not enough to
make a measurement, i can try to work in the interface work.
Do you dislike the semaphore idea?
May be use icons?

What you think about saving in the journal?

Regards

Gonzalo

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <
> bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 09/10/2010 09:54 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> > Hi Ben:
>> > I am trying to resolve the ticket http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10122
>> > Can you review it? Could you test it in XO-1.5?
>>
>> I've been following the discussion, but I haven't looked at the patch yet.
>>  I've had a rather busy week.
>>
>> I can't easily test changes because my XO-1.5 is broken, but maybe I can
>> fix it this weekend.
>>
>>
> Ok. Tell me if I can send you more information.
>
>
>
>>  > There are changes I did based in my tests, but I need to know if you
>> agree.
>>
>> I'm concerned about any making Distance change the volume settings.  This
>> might make sense for the microphone amplification setting, but I would
>> prefer to leave the speaker volume under the user's control.  The
>> appropriate volume to use for Distance depends on how long a distance one
>> is trying to measure, the level of background noise, whether other people
>> might be disturbed, etc.
>>
>> I was thinking we can show a semaphore or any image with the quality of
> the measure, in base of the difference with the previous measurements.
> For example if the difference with the last is until 5% different its green
> , until 30% yellow, more is red.
> Also we can put a text suggesting turn up the volume for better results.
>
>
>> The changes in delay constant could make sense.  I'll need to look at the
>> changes and see if we can find an explanation for the changes.
>>
>> Other problem I am having is (in Sugar 0.84) if I restart a previously
> shared activity, the activity starts shared, but not appears in the
> neighborhood view from the other machines.
> I need to start a new activity and then share.
>
> Also I don't know if it's a good idea Distance save in the Journal.  Only
> saves the temp and humid values and the last measurement.
> May be we can save these values in the activity_root/data directory from
> the activity, not pollute the Journal and resolve the resume issue. What you
> think? The change is easy.
> Regards
>
> Gonzalo
>
>


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Gonzalo Odiard
SugarLabs Argentina
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