Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread Dave Crossland
What sugar activity packages did you install vis yum? My guess is you don't have any pulled in as dependencies from sugar-desktop. On Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 11:05 PM Kevin Hi all, and thanks for making and sharing sugar. It looks like wonderful > software. > > I'd like to introduce my 8yo kid to

Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Yes, the bug was detected in July 2017, but that was with pre-release software that we wouldn't have had newbies using. It wasn't until our collective inaction had matured and the release of Fedora and Ubuntu happened that newbies began to see it. Yes, an "errata" could be useful, but that

Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread Kevin
Thanks for your suggestion, Dave. I don't think that's the problem though. Fortunately however, I think I may have figured this out. After logging in with my kid's credentials again, I had the same experience of automatically entering the Journal activity again. But I experimented more

Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Perhaps, but the bug isn't specific to Fedora. It happens also on Debian, Ubuntu and others, as soon as they upgrade Metacity. I'd prefer we fix the bug than document it everywhere, because after the bug is fixed people keep finding documents that refer to it. Also, I'm not sure

Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread Kevin
Oh! Ok. Thanks for explaining, James! Would it be helpful if I added some words about this bug to the wiki article that got me started? On 11/26/18 1:15 AM, James Cameron wrote: > Thanks for the report. > > You're hitting a known bug

[IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread Kevin
Hi all, and thanks for making and sharing sugar. It looks like wonderful software. I'd like to introduce my 8yo kid to sugar, so I installed vanilla F29 on an old MacBook Pro, updated all installed software via yum (no apparent problems with that much), and then I followed the instructions I

Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the report. You're hitting a known bug we are working on. Press F3 key to show the home view, or move the mouse to the corner, wait for the Frame to appear, and select the home view that way. https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/home_view.html The bug was introduced by the Metacity window