virtualisation usability of frame

[quozl]

When Sugar is used in VirtualBox, the frame is difficult to activate using the mouse. As the mouse exits the emulation window toward the top left, the emulator stops delivering mouse events to the virtual machine before reaching coordinate (0,0).

Workarounds are either;

• use the F6 shortcut key,
• move the mouse very very slowly one pixel at a time until it reaches (0,0), or
• turn off mouse integration mode (host+i).

A solution might be to enlarge the area of activation for the frame, from one pixel to 4, 9, 16, or 25 pixels. A further improvement may be to provide this as a slider in the frame control panel in My Settings.

References:

• git repository ​https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar.git
• source file src/jarabe/frame/eventarea.py
• method __init__ of class EventArea,
• each call to _create_invisible uses a width or height of 1.

[SAMdroid]

Patch: ​https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/571

[quozl]

Patch: ​https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/602

[quozl]

Is in 0.107.1