On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
As far as FF goes, the FF updater ping the addons.mozilla.org periodically with a list of installed addons and version numbers. AMO responds with a list of updateable addons. The sugar updater would need to be extended to handle this additional level of polling to activities.sugarlabs.org. david > 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