many thanks Martin for finding that thread for me, I have so much going on I'm having trouble remembering keywords to look things up
Actually what faked me out was the fine print about XO software update: it won't update to the latest Activity version on ASLO, just the latest OLPC supported Activity version. Which is of course perfectly logical now that I think about it, but as Activity versions are coming fast & furious, I had lost confidence in the "Your software is up-to-date" message... since I knew more recent versions were available. Intuitively, I would expect ASLO to be polled by Sugar machines... in clicking, I expect the machine to figure out all by itself what it needs to be up to date... I guess the best way out of that is to ask OLPC to title that page "Search for OLPC updates"? Re USB: a brief little popup saying "Your USB key is visible in the Journal" would be helpful I think. Sean On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Martin Dengler<mar...@martindengler.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:58:39AM +0200, Sean DALY 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. > > This is the email thread you may have been thinking of, with a "couple > of phrases" suggested: > http://n2.nabble.com/-Marketing--adding-or-updating-an-Activity:-two-typical-teacher-scenarios,-let%27s-%09lower-barrier-to-installation-td2981491.html > (ugh, that's a horrible link). > >> 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. > > It does (check for activity updates that OLPC supports) on OLPC > builds. The Software Update extension in the Control Panel doesn't > exist (well, it's broken and hidden) on SoaS. So it either works as > designed, or isn't present. > >> I only recently figured out how to browse files on a USB >> key from within Sugar :-) > > How can this be made easier for newcomers to learn? > >> Sean > > Martin > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
