<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Eben Eliason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eben.eliason@gmail.com">eben.eliason@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com" target="_blank">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all,<br><br>looking at some of ParaguayEduca's latest builds I saw that they have added some new icons / features to the frame (e.g. CPU / memory consumption, accessibility, touchpad-mode, etc.)<br><br>I talked to Bernie about this and we realized that there currently doesn't seem to be a clear consensus on what kind of features should go into the frame and which ones into the control panel. One could easily argue that some sparsely populated CP options could be removed and the options instead added to the corresponding frame devices (particularly power and network options come to mind here). Or on the contrary that things like the touchpad-mode should be accessed from within the CP rather than the frame.<br clear="all"> <br>Anyway, I was wondering what people here thought about this issue.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I think that the dominant factor in the choice of what to show should be the frequency with which the information or controls are used. If a setting is changed frequently by a child within a single "session" it's a good candidate for a device icon in the Frame. If the setting is, more often than not, set and then forgotten it should exist only within the Control Panel, where it won't distract from more important information and controls.</div> </div></blockquote><div><br>Perfect, that makes a lot of sense.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"> <div>I also agree with the idea Tomeu brought up; I think linking to the corresponding section of the Contol Panel from any devices that have additional settings makes a lot of sense.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>So you mean that the battery or wifi devices in the frame would have an "extra options" item in the palette that would jump to the corresponding option-page in the CP?<br> <br>Thanks for the quick and clear answers! :-)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Christoph<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>