[sugar] Picking person colors

[Eben Eliason]

Hi Jerry -
Thanks for your feedback!  Improving the color selection interaction is
definitely on our list; unfortunately it continually falls below many other
pressing bugs.  At a minimum, we want to add left and right arrows on either
side of the XO, to allow forward and backward cycling through the colors.
 We also have several more complex designs which, while not involving a
traditional color picker, do provide a direct way to select both stroke and
fill colors.  Perhaps when time frees up in a bit I can release those
designs to the wiki (wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs) for feedback and critique.

If you or others you know are able, we'd welcome a patch which does the
first of these as a short term improvement, until the designs are finalized.
 After that, perhaps a volunteer can also take on the task of matching the
design, should our engineers not have the time.

- Eben




On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Jerry Williams <jwilliam at xmission.com>wrote:

>  I loaded a LiveCD into a laptop that I had to let my Daughter try out
> OLPC.
>
> She entered her name and then went to the next screen and then took like 5
> min to find the person that was a color that she wanted.  Questions she
> asked, can I go back?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Is there a different way to choose the colors?
>
> How many colors are there?
>
>
>
> So I thought about it some.
>
> I was thinking about putting a block on each side of the person, one for
> the outside color and one for the inside color.
>
> Then if you click on the person all three would change color.
>
> Then if you click on a block then it would pop up the color selection tool
> and just let you pick a color.
>
> The same would work for the other block.
>
> Also maybe a right click would let you go back.
>
>
>
> I attached a jpg of what it might look like.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jerry Williams
>
>
>
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