[Sugar-devel] About customization of xo icon

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 16 June 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>
>> I think we should decide if changing the xo icon is a feature we _really_
>> want
>> include in sugar.
>>
>> I am not sure if add too much value, but probably can add confusion,
>> more if is applied in all the places where the xo icons is used , like
>> the actual
>> implementation do. May be we can limit the change to only the favorites
>> view?
>>
>>
> Can you elaborate on where/why it would be confusing?
>

If you look at the icon in the example image in the feature page,
is a pair of telephone tubes. I can hear teachers of support groups in
deployments trying to explain how to go to the control panel,
saying "press  over the icon with the kid like you have in the back of your
computer",
and that icon does not exist in any place. And the proposed patch don't
change the icon in the home page, but in all places. Is good for
consistency,
but will add more noise.

Can be more confusing if the kid decide use a activity icon as his xo icon
too.

Another issue to evaluate: In the case of the home background, we have
tools
like Paint, and the kids can draw their own backgrounds or take photos,
if the icons are svg, they can't create new icons.

The only way I see this proposal can be better if we have a collection of
icons
easily identifiable with the xo icon kid, like adding a football ball, or
dancing, painting, and so,
and with the entities defined to preserve the user colors.

Gonzalo
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