On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote:
> On April 27, 2018 I downloaded the ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I > generated a boot usb drive with dd. The usb stick was used to install > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS alongside Windows 10. Sugar was installed using sudo > apt-get install sucrose. > > From http://activities.sugarlabs.org/activities, I scraped a list of > the most recent versions of each activity. This list contained 714 > entries. However a number turned out to be empty or duplicates. These > reduced the list to 516 activities. > > I them matched each item against the repostories in > 'http://github.com/sugarlabs'. There were corresponding repositories for > 222 of the 516 activities. All of these repositories (.zip) were > downloaded to the Positivo. One turned out to be empty: > lybniz_graph_plotter. > > The 221 repositories were unzipped and an attempt was made to build a > bundle with 'python setup.py dist_xo'. This process failed with > activities which included 'from sugar.activity import activity'. These > have not yet been ported to GTK3. This reduced the number of activities > to 106. Each of these activities was launched from the Home View on the > Positivo. Of these 91 executed as expected. The others failed to start > for various reasons. > Did you try installing the GTK2 toolkit packages? I would think that the GTK2 activities would still run with the toolkit installed. > > The details are in the attached spreadsheet - all normal disclaimers > apply. The comment 'help' means I didn't really understand how to work > the activity. > > Some general comments. The availability of Sugar on an LTS version of a > major distribution is an opportunity to demonstrate that the value of > Sugar is not limited to the XO. Unfortunately, the method to launch > Sugar is not obvious. You must click on your user panel to show the > password entry. Below, there is a 'gear' icon. You must click on that to > choose Sugar. Then you need to enter your Ubuntu password. > > On the first run, you are asked about colors, gender and age. In this > age with every site collecting private information for sale - this does > not make a good first impression. > > Sugar on Ubuntu launches to the (empty) Journal View! Ubuntu itself > provides a built-in set of welcome slides to introduce its new features. > Sadly, Sugar launches to a brick wall. The user needs to know to display > the Home View (using F3 or the Frame - F6). > > The Sugar install is minimal compared to what we have become used to. > The Home View has 5 activities: Browse, Calculate, Chat, Pippy, and > Write. Installed but not favorites are ImageViewer, Jukebox, Log, Read, > and Terminal. Presumably users are expected to install additional > activities from the 91 tested above. However, in general, these bundles > are not available on activities.sugarlabs.org and require some technical > expertise to install from github. > > On a positive note: connection to the internet and to the schoolserver > was smooth. The Neighborhood View worked as expected. Downloads from the > school server to the Journal worked as normal. As far as I could tell, > the working activities showed normal screen coverage. > > On Sugar with Ubuntu, you are your Ubuntu user - not olpc. Activities > available to all Sugar users on a laptop are in > /usr/share/sugar/activities. Activities installed by > sugar-install-bundle are in /home/yourusername/Activities and are only > available to you. With some technical expertise you can copy an activity > to the /usr/share/sugar/Activities directory to share it with other users. > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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