[Sugar-devel] Better resolution for the Preview image - Re: Sugar Digest 2013-02-02

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/2/2 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> 1, Redwood City: Raul Gutierrez Segales, Bernie Innocenti and I have
> been busy hacking in a mini Sugar Camp this weekend. Our goal is to
> build an interface between the Sugar Journal and several on-line
> services. Specifically, Raul and I are working on an interface between
> the Journal and Facebook and Bernie is working on an interface between
> the Journal and Google Drive.
>
> Here's is where we are at at the moment:
>
> * We have a control panel widget for managing your Facebook account.
> [1] It saves a token in .gconf that can be used to make transactions
> with Facebook. (We plan to add a section to manage all of the users
> online accounts, probably in the manner of the GNOME online account
> manager. Suggests (and patches) welcome.)
>
> * We have a "Share on" extension to the Journal palette menu. [2]
> Right now, the only option is to share on Facebook. Raul has written a
> class that manages a Facebook object consisting of the Journal preview
> image, the title, and the description. The preview image is uploaded
> as a photo object to the Sugar Journal album on Facebook. The title
> and description are added as a comment. (Question for the design team:
> can we bump up the resolution of the preview image?)

Definitely. Better resolution for the preview image is something I
always wanted to see. I remember the topic appearing once in a while
since I joined the project.  Main reason against is the disc space
limitations in XO-1 hardware.

Current size is poor 300 x 225 px.  That is 1/4 of XO resolution, 1200
x 900 px.  Maybe we can bump it up to 1/2 XO resolution 600 x 450 px,
then we can easily make a thumbnail of 300 x 225 resizing the preview
by a half.

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