#6435 NORM Never A: GUI for sugar-control-panel (was: Sugar has no GUI control panel)

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#6435: GUI for sugar-control-panel
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  Reporter:  gnu     |       Owner:  erikos        
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:                
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:                
 Blockedby:          |  
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Changes (by erikos):

  * owner:  marco => erikos


Comment:

 we started to discuss the design of the control panel yesterday in the
 sugar-meeting, here the summary:

 - mockup: https://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/6435/settings.png

 - It is organized into pages, where each tab corresponds to one page, each
 page is broken into sections.

 - offer both "cancel" and "confirm" buttons, so that you can undo any
 settings changes you made when leaving, "esc" will dismiss the alert

 - home XO will have an option "About my XO" to reveal the panel

 - make it modal to the place it has been invoked (here home view) because
 otherwise you would be blocked from using other activities (for example a
 web page that has the instructions for the setting
 ) when using the control panel.


 Questions:

 Compared to the OSX panel
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:System_Preferences.png you do not see
 all the available options when you open the panel, only the options for
 one section (e.g. Network). The OSX way is nice when you are not sure yet
 that the radio on/off option is placed in the Network section for example.

 Eben can you provide a detailed mockup that illustrates how a subsection
 of a page will look like? I guess white font when you use the black
 background color. Do we get icons as well for each subsection (e.g. Radio,
 Jabber server)?

 The menu item in should probably be called "Control Panel" since "About my
 XO" is a section within the panel.

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