[Sugar-devel] [FEATURES] Display Device

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> El 21/11/11 13:17, Christoph Derndorfer escribió:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Simon
>> Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to propose the following Feature to enhance the Sugar
>>> learning environment:
>>>
>>> "Add a frame device to control the display. The idea is to add their an
>>> option to change the brightness and to take a screenshot. Both actions
>>> are
>>> only available via the keyboard as of today." [1]
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   Simon
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/**Features/Display_Device<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Display_Device>
>>
>>
>> Hey Simon,
>>
>> I really like the idea of adding the brightness controls to the frame,
>> especially since that makes it consistent with the volume controls.
>>
>> I'm less convinced about the value of adding the screenshot capability to
>> the frame device. Functionality-wise it is of course related to the
>> display
>> but IMHO it still doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the frame device
>> features.
>>
>> Also I think that today the screenshot functionality is mainly used as a
>> defacto replacement for the lacking print capabilities. Reading through
>> Walter's latest Sugar-Digest it seems like the move to GTK3 will enable
>> much better export / printing capabilities in Activities. As such I feel
>> that adding the screenshot capability to the frame now is more of a short
>> term fix which introduces an inconsistency whereas it should be possible
>> to
>> have a significantly better overall solution soon (e.g. for Sugar 0.98?).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>
> Hmm, I disagree here. The screenshot functionality is an important tool,
> used by teachers. I don't think it is only used as an replacement for
> printing.

Screen capture is an essential tool for creating documentation,
something we'd like to encourage our end users to do.

-walter

> Currently it is only accessible by a shortcut, not available in
> the UI. That it's why the goal is to preset it here. I could not come up
> with a better place to expose such a functionality, suggestions welcome.
>
> Regards,
>   Simon
>
>
>
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