<div dir="ltr">Hi Jerry -<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your feedback! Improving the color selection interaction is definitely on our list; unfortunately it continually falls below many other pressing bugs. At a minimum, we want to add left and right arrows on either side of the XO, to allow forward and backward cycling through the colors. We also have several more complex designs which, while not involving a traditional color picker, do provide a direct way to select both stroke and fill colors. Perhaps when time frees up in a bit I can release those designs to the wiki (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs">wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs</a>) for feedback and critique.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you or others you know are able, we'd welcome a patch which does the first of these as a short term improvement, until the designs are finalized. After that, perhaps a volunteer can also take on the task of matching the design, should our engineers not have the time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Eben</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Jerry Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwilliam@xmission.com">jwilliam@xmission.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I loaded a LiveCD into a laptop that I had to let my
Daughter try out OLPC.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">She entered her name and then went to the next screen and
then took like 5 min to find the person that was a color that she wanted.
Questions she asked, can I go back?</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I don't think so.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Is there a different way to choose the colors?</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">How many colors are there?</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">So I thought about it some.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I was thinking about putting a block on each side of the
person, one for the outside color and one for the inside color.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Then if you click on the person all three would change
color.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Then if you click on a block then it would pop up the color
selection tool and just let you pick a color.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The same would work for the other block.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Also maybe a right click would let you go back.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I attached a jpg of what it might look like.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Kind regards,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Jerry Williams</span></font></p>
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