New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 125 - control panel

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

Simple and quite effective :-)
Changing MAX_COLUMNS to 4 in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py did the trick.
And still has space for (just) one more control.

--- On Fri, 5/21/10, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> Subject: Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 125 - control panel
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Fedora OLPC" <fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com>, "Chris Ball" <cjb at laptop.org>, "Devel" <devel at lists.laptop.org>, "timClicks" <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>, "Sugar Devel" <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 8:53 AM
> [cc += sugar-devel@, timclicks]
> 
> El Fri, 21-05-2010 a las 04:13 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis
> escribió:
> > This probably belongs to SugarLabs Devel but maybe the
> control panel layout must be reengineered to properly fit
> all the controls. 
> > In the current layout is easy to miss the scroll-bar
> at the bottom and he software update/language panels. 
> > With the upcoming touchpad control panel, and maybe
> more things to come, is going to get worse.
> > Smaller icons should be an easy immediate fix and
> maybe tabs could be considered for the future.
> 
> I've applied the following patch to my builds. It mitigates
> the problem,
> at least on the screen size of the XO-1.
> 
> The correct approach, of course, would be computing the
> number of rows
> from the current width of the window divided by the width
> of each
> column. (patches welcome).
> 
> 
> 
> From d667cedc5052a95909578e6cc2e50472c0916e7c Mon Sep 17
> 00:00:00 2001
> From: timClicks <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>
> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 01:02:36 +1200
> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] _MAX_COLUMNS now 4
> 
> The 'My Settings' dialogue no longer overhands on the right
> on
> the XO-1. This change will generally provide better
> performance
> for small screens.
> 
> ---
>  src/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py
> b/src/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py
> index 51d9820..fb9010f 100644
> --- a/src/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py
> +++ b/src/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from jarabe.controlpanel.toolbar import
> SectionToolbar
>  from jarabe import config
>  
>  _logger = logging.getLogger('ControlPanel')
> -_MAX_COLUMNS = 5
> +_MAX_COLUMNS = 4
>  
>  class ControlPanel(gtk.Window):
>      __gtype_name__ =
> 'SugarControlPanel'
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
> 
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