[Sugar-devel] About customization of xo icon

Ignacio Rodríguez nachoel01 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 16 16:08:38 EDT 2013


> 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.

Yes, they must be created. The tube phone was to test . Since it was the
only icon I had on hand.


2013/6/16 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>

> 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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