Hey guys, Today I tested out almost of all of the activities on wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities on build 702.
I remember reading an e-mail from Kim Quirk asking folks to test installing the activities on build 702. I am posting my findings here in case it might be useful. You may already be aware of the problems I encountered. First I downloaded all of the activities from the wiki page. I didn't use any automated scripts or xo-get because bandwidth is quite poor at my location. I didn't test out activity sharing, hopefully will do that tomorrow or Friday. What didn't work: OurStories v.1-beta Mimic v.1 MaMaMedia Storybuilder v.12 :( really an awesome activity Tuxpaint v.1 --> doesn't run at all Schoolsplay v.0.4- runs but display screwed up, hard to read MaMaMedia Creative Center v.3 - works but doesn't do __anything__, appears to be an advertisement Kuku - doesn't run Inferno - doesn't run Dr. Geo II - v.104 does run but really, really slowly Watch & Listen v.10 doesn't even show an icon in the activity panel What Works: Scratch Need Words app to work w/ Nepali, otherwise mostly useless Newsreader runs but very slowly Maze Speak Browse Write Paint, OK Measure EToys Memorize StarChart Moon SimCity starts up, didn't play w/ it much Record TurtleArt SocialCalc Ruler PlayGo PollBuilder runs, but Lesson Plans don't render properly, appears to be xml-1.0, UTF-8 MaMaMedia Learning Center Jokebook Jump Jigsaw Puzzle XoIRC Implode Frotz XaOS Flipsticks Other issues: In general, Etoys-based activities start pretty quickly but take a long time to shutdown, literally 2 minutes. This is an issue our team in Nepal is wrestling w/. Hopefully we will come up w/ a solution that can be shared. I should ask Hilaire for help w/ this. Minimal documentation for Starchart, Go, Measure, Jump, Implode, Connect. These are __great__ activities but it would be hard for a kid to get into them w/out having background knowledge. Our two schools will share a 128 kbps Internet connection so it will be harder for the kids to google for answers. SocialCalc, appears to be proprietary. The license info read "All Rights Reserved." How are we allowed to use it and how can we translate it? Am I missing something? I got some weird errors during bootup HAL daemon userdel: user 1035 does not exist I got 6 or 7 such messages Question: How do I install the locale for Gcompris? How do I install the TamTam suite? Hope this was of some use. On the whole, I was quite impressed by the breadth of activities. For now, 702 gets my vote for Update.1 stable release -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel