[sugar] frame activation

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 11:39:04 EDT 2008


Can we set up an actually experiment with some children? Uruguay,
Paraguay, and Peru all agreed to help. This seems like a obvious place
to start.

-walter

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've played with it a lot.  I think that a 1/3 second delay goes a
> long way to preventing accidental activation, but likely isn't long
> enough to prevent discovery, especially in a classroom full of kids.
> If everyone tests it out with a delay in this range and agrees, we
> could institute a delay between 1/3 and 1/2 second by default and
> probably provide a better out-of-the-box experience.
>
> - Eben
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bert's point is a good one and a further argument for keeping it
>> configurable. On my XO, the touchpad is flaky but there is a frame
>> key. On my HP, the touchpad is reasonably stable, but I need to
>> remember an undiscoverable keyboard binding. So I would like to have
>> almost opposite behaviors depending upon the hardware.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> On 10.06.2008, at 12:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> do we have any feedback regarding frame activation and the new control
>>>> panel option?
>>>>
>>>> Is it ok to ship with hot corners on by default and let the users
>>>> change it if they wish?
>>>
>>>
>>> As much as I hate the mouse activation, I still think this is a
>>> sensible default. On the XO we have a Frame key, but on other hw
>>> discovering the frame could be a lot harder.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
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