[Sugar-devel] About customization of xo icon

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 16 June 2013 21:51, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ok, I can see the inconsistency being potentially a problem in the
classroom. I'll defer to people with more classroom experience on this one,
it's a bit of a balance I suspect, between giving the kids the "power" to
customize and keeping the teachers happy :)

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.
>

I certainly agree a good collection of icons is a must for this feature to
be useful.
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