On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, that's the procedure when running Sugar and using Browse... which > I wasn't doing. A couple of phrases removing the mystery will help us; > it's a lowering-the-barriers issue... we can't assume everyone will > alertly figure it out. > > After all, common sense tells you that Software Update in the Control > Panel should check for Activity updates, which it sort of does, but > also doesn't. I understand that that infrastructure is on the OLPC > side, but a friendly checkbox for activities.sugarlabs.org (with of > course the server-side magic necessary) would help a lot.
Aslo is set up to handle automatic activity updates using the same mechanism firefox uses to check for addon update. david > I have stringent wireless security at home and it's a pain to connect > my XOs wirelessly, so I usually temporarily run a cable to an Ethernet > USB adapter (the green Zoltan thing I got from XOexplosion). But I got > stuck with ASLO by downloading the xo packages on another computer, to > a USB stick; with no idea how to bring them into an XO or a netbook > running SoaS. I only recently figured out how to browse files on a USB > key from within Sugar :-) > > Sean > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM, James > Simmons<jim.simm...@walgreens.com> wrote: >> Sean DALY wrote: >>> >>> GCompris is fine where it is; it is very well known in Europe and >>> elsewhere and has a five year headstart on us in word-of-mouth and >>> credibility with teachers. Although marketing/branding of GCompris has >>> been minimalist, it has a well-deserved reputation for quality. I'm >>> very excited GCompris is arriving in Sugar and I hope collaboration >>> will work in those Activities too. >>> >> >> OK with me. I hadn't heard of it before OLPC, so I assumed nobody else had >> either. >>> >>> I disagree that common baseline Activities should be absent; >>> >> >> I never suggested that they be *absent*, just not featured. I'm thinking >> that a new Sugar user finds his way to ASLO by clicking a link on the Browse >> start page and the featured items ought to be things he doesn't have yet. >> >> I like the term "Featured Activity" better than "We Recommend" too. "We >> Recommend" implies that the Activity is among the best and most robust we >> have, which limits what you can put in there. "Featured Activity" implies >> nothing more than "We think this is cool and worth a look." For instance, I >> would not hesitate to put "Story Builder" or "GCompris 3D Maze" as a >> Featured Activity, but would have a harder time saying I recommend either of >> them. Plus you could change what is a Featured Item every month or so. >> That would make this site a bit more interesting to visit, and you wouldn't >> have people wondering why last month we recommended Read Etexts but this >> month we don't. >>> >>> We need a short intro explaining >>> the install procedure (it took me days to figure out how to do it). I >>> had mentioned this a while back but I don't remember if someone >>> besides me had volunteered to look at that >> >> I just hit the Download button from within Browse. The Activity gets added >> to my Journal and is ready for use. I know there are other ways to install >> something, but downloading to the Journal works just fine for me. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep