[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] The touchscreen gesture to bring up the Frame...

[Sebastian Silva]

On 09/04/15 11:11, Walter Bender wrote:
> a) We could add another hotkey. I've thought a lot about the CAPS LOCK
> key, for instance.
> Not sure how a different hot key makes it any more discoverable.
Arguably, the sheer abundance of options would make it more discoverable.

But more seriously, Chromebooks use the CAPS LOCK spot for the main
menu. It sends the Super key as signal though.

Perhaps we could even use bind both.

It would be a bold design decision but that's what Sugar is good at.
>
>> b) Add a keybinding configuration option to My Settings, so that this is
>> configurable.
> Probably we'd want to be able to configure all the hot keys, not just frame.
+1
>
>> c) Add another frame invocation touch gesture.
> +1 to that.
Gonzalo pointed out issues with this. I suggested that a visual clue
showing that there was something to pull from above could work.
>
>> d) Admit we don't care about other hardware than XO (I do!)
> Sugar Labs was founded on the premise of supporting as broad of a base
> of hardware as possible; but it was OLPC that supported the initial
> work on touch. Would be great if some other hardware vendors would
> pitch in.
First, we most likely need to make Sugar attractive to them. It isn't at
the moment, I think.

In part, this is because it doesn't work very well with regular
machines, or for regular use (outside, i guess, reflecting upon journal
objects).

This is not a problem of available technical resources, it's about the
will to design and implement a learner experience which is in accordance
to the ideals expressed in the Sugar vision, and yet is aesthetically
pleasing to use on recent hardware, and capable of doing any type of
work/play/tinker you'd normally do with a computer as well.

This should be something done out of love, not duty.

Current Sugar is close but critically lacking in some areas.

When the Sugar platform exposes the range of actions a computer user is
expected to do, it will become a viable option for computer vendors.

I am willing to work in this direction.

Regards,
Sebastian