umm... I'm trying to understand how that assists in keeping Activities up-to-date... what plays the role of the FF browser, phoning in for version availability?
thanks Sean On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:04 AM, David Farning<dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > 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