[Sugar-devel] Dbus signal when ebook switch is activated

[Paul Fox]

sascha wrote:
 > Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Oct 14 22:09:09 +0200 2010:
 > 
 > > It's simple and it's explained in http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10396
 > 
 > At least in Read (and in most if not all activities), the dpad should
 > work the same regardless of whether the keyboard is available (non-ebook
 > mode) or not (ebook mode).
 > 
 > Thus there's no reason to query the ebook mode switch in the first
 > place.

i suspect the point is that in "normal" mode it's okay for the
focus to be "elsewhere", since there's a touchpad with which to
change the focus.  in ebook mode, that's not the case -- if focus
isn't on the text area, then you're stuck, and have to open the
laptop to click.

paul
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