[Trac #535] Serious problems finding the icon of the current application

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#535: Serious problems finding the icon of the current application
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 Reporter:  xorAxAx       |        Owner:  marco  
     Type:  defect        |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  BTest-2
Component:  sugar         |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:  accessiblity  |  
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Changes (by Eben):

  * owner:  Eben => marco

Comment:

 Well, there are two issues here:

 The close button:  I guess the stop button referred to is part of the
 activity itself.  By moving the actual close button out of the activity,
 it should at least become clear after a little use that things in the
 activity toolbar all belong to the activity.  Then, of course, there is
 the remarkably counter-inuitive shutdown 'x', which should definitely be
 removed sooner rather than later, or at least replaced with a different
 icon which means something stronger than "close."  That leaves us with the
 one in the menu, which is the one that should be used.  Of course, we have
 yet to see if this is clear enough, or discoverable.  Getting rollovers
 working (and drag'n'drop) in the Home screen is essential to really test
 this out.

 The colors:  This is a problem, but it's not so much a design issue.  At
 present, the HIG has a full section on color and contrast in the Munsell
 space.  As long as the colors that we allow the children to choose are
 constrained accordingly, this shouldn't be an issue.  Right now, the color
 chosen for the XO is random, right?  We will have much more control once
 they are selected by the user from a palette we give them.  We could also
 entertain the possibility of going back to a white frame, for high
 contrast.  We had early mockups of this, but they got left behind for no
 reason.  If it would aid in readability, we could try it out.

 I'm reassigning this back to Marco, since the close button issues require
 further implementation before we should undertake a redesign.  Also,
 Marco, you can take a white frame for a spin.  Other than that, I think we
 can ignore the colors for now; Walter has spent a lot of time on this, and
 I think we all expect this color selection to be implemented.  Once it is,
 we can revisit it and see if the contrast is sufficient.

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