[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Olidata computers in Uruguay

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Esteban Bordón
<ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> In fact, Sugar working quite well, the main problem is that in many
> activities does not using the function zoom defined in
> sugar/graphics/style.py and doesn't scale well.

In your screenshots, it becomes clear that there is a problem with the
Journal detail view. We'll need to work on that. As far as individual
activities, perhaps we need a Code Sprint some weekend to identify and
fix the misbehaving ones, starting with the ones that are of most
interest to the teachers and kids.

regards.

-walter

>
> I attach some screenshots.
>
> regards,
>
> Esteban Bordón
> Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal
> Centro Ceibal - Av. Italia 6201 - Montevideo, Uruguay
>
>
> 2011/6/16 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Esteban Bordón
>> <ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
>> >> > One of the most noticeable source for incompatibilities seems to be
>> >> > screen definition, 800x600 in the Olidata, and thus several
>> >> > Activities are
>> >> > cropped,
>> >
>> > Screen definition is 800x480 ...
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Ouch, quite a few Activity toolbars will likely overflow at 800x600
>> >> (overflow widgets land in a drop down menu in the far right of the
>> >> toolbar
>> >> that shows the text from the tool button hint only). The XO is a
>> >> 1200x900
>> >> screen, about a year or two back there was general consensus that we
>> >> should
>> >> try and make sure Activities worked well down too 1024x768 as that was
>> >> common in emulated environments and regular laptops/desktops.
>> >>
>> >> These 800x600 display machines will want to make sure they are running
>> >> Sugar using an environmental variable of  SUGAR_SCALING=72, this will
>> >> shrink
>> >> the UI scale down to fit the lower screen resolution. SUGAR_SCALING
>> >> currently only has an effect at either 72 (works well for 800x600 and
>> >> 1024x768) or 100 (for 1200x900 or larger).
>>
>> Hmm. I routinely run Sugar in a VM at 800x600 and it is -- with very
>> few exceptions -- working quite well. I've not tried 800x480 in a
>> while... not ideal, but it should generally work. Can you describe
>> some of the specific problems you are encountering?
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > With SUGAR_SCALING=72 Sugar have some problems showing  properties of a
>> > journal entry for example. I trying to set lower values of SUGAR_SCALING
>> > but
>> > I have not getting good results.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Esteban.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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