[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Frame icon to take a screenshot

Gary Martin garycmartin at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 3 15:10:02 EST 2013


On 3 Dec 2013, at 18:17, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> Nice to see this finally being implemented!
> 
> Let me refer to the feature page:
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Display_Device
> 
> And summarize the discussion we had past year:
> 
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-August/039152.html
> 
> - the device should be named "My Display", goes well with "My Battery", etc
> - we agreed in this icon for the device
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Candidate_Display_icon.jpg
> - we never solved the frame status.. should we hide it? show it? add
> two buttons?
> 
> I'm fine with hiding and then showing the frame, altrough it doesn't
> quite follow what the shortcut does (Alt-1).
> 
> I can take care of designing the SVG icon.  The brightness control and
> black/white toggle that are present in the feature page can be left
> for a future addition
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Mockup_Display_device_palette.jpg

Here's as far as I had got on this (way, way back) – mainly just tinkering with test code to see how it would work for touch, but I stalled out at how to talk to whatever needs to manage the actual display brightness – seems like the keyboard uses a custom path for XO hardware that is not standard in Fedora and I couldn't find a generic platform agnostic way to access it (read and write). It's been a while, I forget the nitty gritty details, apologies.

Anyway probably of more use/curiosity are the set of svg's I had been experimenting with, one set use a fill metaphor to go from dark to bright, a second set changes the length for the 'sun' rays to indicate brightness (FWIW I prefer the ray length version as it matches the keyboard icon designs more closely).

Regards,
--Gary

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P.S. Most of the icons (other than display-100.svg at the top level) will need the svg <!ENTITY stroke_color "#010101"><!ENTITY fill_color "#ffffff"> added (the others were fresh out of a vector drawing tool).

> 
> Regarding implementation, I'm not sure about the busy wait that
> Ignacio implemented (the while true).  But I left that for a
> maintainer with more time than me :)
> 
> 
> 2013/12/2 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
>> Ignacio posted a patch to add a frame icon to take a screenshot. This is
>> what it looks like
>> 
>> https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2650479/1632655/9ddcca80-577b-11e3-9378-6ac0fbaf14ef.png
>> 
>> Should we add this feature? (I think it's a good idea, key-only features are
>> not really discoverable).
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Daniel Narvaez
>> 
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