On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Scenario 1: > > Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider > myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have > never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS, > loading it onto a stick with the Fedora LiveUSB Creator and booting my > PC with it. I've tried a few Activities and am wondering what other > Activities are available. Later, back in Windows, I've visited > www.sugarlabs.org and found the Activities section. Browsing by > section, I find a couple of Activities that seem interesting. I've > clicked the pancake buttons and downloaded two .xo files and put them > on my hard disk where I usually store the attachments friends and > colleagues send me. > > > Scenario 2: > > A colleague has mentioned Sugar to me, talking about the OLPC project. > I have a Mac for ease of use and I never see a text screen. I visit > www.sugarlabs.org and after reading the "teachers" section with > interest, I return to the homepage and click on "Try Sugar with a > child today", arriving on the page that advises how to install for > each system; I click on the Apple icon. The boot helper instructions > seem complicated, but I find the VirtualBox OSX installation > instructions and get Sugar running. I'm intrigued by the Activities > and want to know if there are more, so I switch to my browser in the > other window, return to the Sugar Labs site and find a very > interesting-looking Activity in the website's Activities section. I > click the pancake button and download the .xo file to the Mac's > desktop. > > > ****************************** > Questions: > > 1) what are the teachers' next step? Would the procedures be different > for these two scenarii? > * No instructions I could locate on activities.sugarlabs.org :-( > * In the wiki section, I eventually located Activity Library and found > a page called End Users, but two of the three pages are blank and the > other one talks about a sandbox... > * The search engine doesn't help either, there are lots of documents > found but none give advice about how to add an Activity or update to a > more recent one. > > 2) I think we are assuming Activity installation from within Browse > under Sugar, but that method may be too much to assume for a newbie or > for someone with no net connectivity with Sugar... "automatic" if > connected though I don't remember if a new Activity arrives in the > list view or is a favorite... we need to communicate what to expect in > that case > > 3) Someone told me how to add an Activity by placing the .xo bundle in > a directory... but I can't find the mail :-( and CLI manipulations > daunting for many ordinary users > > 4) If I remember correctly, a collaborative Activity set to public > sharing is pushed out over the network to other Sugar machines. Are > those machines permanently updated with more recent versions, or > installed if new versions, or merely "borrowed" during the session? > > 5) if there is a problem, is it possible to roll back to the previous > version of an Activity? > > ****************************** > > any info appreciated.
I think the easiest thing to do is to (1) copy the .xo files onto a USB; (2) insert the USB into a system running Sugar; (3) open the USB in the Journal (tab at bottom of the page); and (4) click on the .xo file--it should autoinstall from there. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep