[Sugar-devel] [Design] Accelerometer icon

[Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez]

Great, +1 to auto screen rotation
2012/9/2 Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>

> Hi Agustin,
>
> Early in the current development cycle there were/are plans to enable
> system wide auto screen rotation using the accelerometer when in ebook mode
> (there was a chance we might loose the physical rotate button on the
> display). Using the accelerometer to rotate the image inside Image Viewer
> would likely prove frustrating if the system was also auto rotating the
> screen. If we enable system wide auto rotate (in ebook mode) this does
> raise the case for allowing Activities the option of blocking
> accelerometer auto rotation if they are the front most activity so they
> can customise the experience.
>
> Walter, this probably affects you more than others at the moment, what are
> your thought on auto rotate an activity accelerometer use?
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>
> On 2 Sep 2012, at 21:31, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez <aguz at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> Some days ago I sent a patch for ImageViewer, that adds the use of the
> accelerometer to rotate images in this activity.
> I am maintainer then I can apply this patch, but I want to know your
> opinion.
>
> Regards,
> aguz
>
> 2012/8/31 Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>
>
>> On 31 Aug 2012, at 13:44, Manuel Kaufmann <humitos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> I use the accelerometer if it
>> >> available. If not, I fall; back to the keyboard. I think that would be
>> >> a reasonable approach for Maze as well.
>> >
>> > I think in Maze would be good to have the option to use the
>> > accelerometer or not because Maze can be played with more that one
>> > player, and in that case you need the keyboard. It could be really
>> > difficult to play a multiplayer Maze Game if one of them is using the
>> > accelerometer :)
>>
>> +1, Maze and Physics both need to provide a toggle option, although
>> sometimes fun, accelerometer input is often impractical, inaccurate, and
>> non obvious in many cases *, though the default state should be up to the
>> activity author.
>>
>> * phone size devices are more practicle, but tablet size and up are only
>> good for limited use or in special use cases of the sensor
>> (landscape/portrait detection, movement monitoring, how bumpy is your
>> journey to school, pedometer counting activity/game).
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>> > --
>> > Kaufmann Manuel
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