[Sugar-devel] Testing Rotate in sugar-jhbuild

[Manuel Quiñones]

2012/8/19 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>>
>> On 16 Aug 2012, at 16:53, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> In anybody want test how activities work with the screen rotated in
>>
>> sugar-jhbuid,
>>
>> can do in the terminal:
>>
>>
>> xrandr -o left
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>>
>> when your neck hurts, or you have finished...
>>
>>
>> xrandr -o normal
>>
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
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>> Works great. Check out
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/c/cb/Portfolio-27.xo which support
>> rotation. But I am curious why the stop button runs off the edge... it
>> would appear there is plenty of room for it.
>>
>>
>> Not sure if this is your issue (my land line has been down most of the day
>> and am on GSM network), but invisible separators still take space unless you
>> explicitly tell them not to:
>>
>>     separator.set_size_request(0, -1)
>>
>> So your separator factory might need a tweak. See Physics activity.py line
>> 103 for a working example.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>>
>> -walter
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>> Walter Bender
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>
> I've been thinking for quite some time that we need a new approach to
> the problem of toolbar items following off the end of the toolbar This
> problem will be greatly exacerbated by the more frequent use of screen
> rotate one would expect with more use of tablet mode on XO 4.0 Touch.
> Most activities have not taken into account the potential squeezing of
> the toolbar by 25% even of they take into consideration general
> resizing of the screen due to rotation.

+1 I think this should be solved somehow, is not easy.

> A simple solution would be to double the vertical size of the toolbar
> and wrap the icons onto a second row.

Yeah but how the subtoolbars and the icons that toggles them would
look in this case?


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