Indeed that worked with SoaS on a netbook, the Activity arrived at the top of the favorites ring.
I'll try with VirtualBox tomorrow (travelling). Who can update activities.sugarlabs.org with concise installation instructions? I can provide copy if that's helpful. thanks Sean On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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