[Sugar-devel] About customization of xo icon

[Gonzalo Odiard]

When the background image feature was included, we discussed
run a contest to create background images. May be we can do the same
with the icons?

Gonzalo


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Ignacio Rodríguez <nachoel01 at gmail.com>wrote:

> > 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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>
>
> --
> Ignacio Rodríguez
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