[Sugar-devel] rethinking your icon customization patch

[Ignacio Rodríguez]

> I still think adding a photo/drawing would be a valuable addition.

This involves a lot of code rewrite..

I'm making a new activity for set XoIcon
My idea is: A simple plaint for make svg icons.!


2013/6/20 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>

> On 06/20/2013 12:16 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
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>> On Thursday, 20 June 2013, Simon Schampijer wrote:
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>>  This thread is about the technical solving of the issue, did we agree on
>>> making this change, really? I am not at all convinced.
>>>
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>> The technical solution proposed here has pretty strong implications on the
>> feature though. It becomes completely optional being an activity. That
>> might affect our decision on making the change or not.
>>
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> For such a change I would like to see a design discussion first
> independent from the implementation. It is relatively easy to quickly
> implement something that sort of works, to hack something but creating a
> good user experience and work flow is not. There are all those little
> details to consider.
>
> The original question stands: do we make it easy to customize the most
> central icon in our UI. And there were concerns that we should not do it.
>
> As far as I understand the current proposal is to do it only locally. So
> it would change the XO icon in which places:
>
> The HOME/Groups/Neighborhood View for my icon?
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> Will it change in the Frame as well?
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> If I am sitting next to my friend and look on his screen for myself, why
> do my icon have the original shape?
>
> How would my icon look like in the members view of the Memorize activity
> when I play a game collaboratively?
>
> The color chooser in the CP uses this new icon?
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> We actually made the background customizable, the shape of the circle is
> theoretically. The latter could be made easier imho maybe in a CP section.
> As well, I still think adding a photo/drawing would be a valuable addition.
> It is true it is not as present as the user icon change but would help to
> personalize.
>
> Cheers,
>    Simon
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Ignacio Rodríguez
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