Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Frederick Grose
See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap/Home_View --Fred On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Let me add some thoughts here, too... > ... > > > If its not too hard to change I think we shou

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 15:22, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 15:04, Sean DALY  wrote: >>> >>> InfoSlicer has been called out in our two press releases... as a >>> resource for teachers >> >> Talking about press releases, we don't have there Labyr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 15:04, Sean DALY wrote: >> InfoSlicer has been called out in our two press releases... as a >> resource for teachers > > Talking about press releases, we don't have there Labyrinth (mind maps) :( > > Tomeu In the press release? Since, Labyrinth is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Let me add some thoughts here, too... Caroline Meeks wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > I'm curious how setting which activities show up as Favorites works at a > technical level. As Tomeu explained, it's not really that hard. It's just a matter of figuring the activies' ID out and adding it then in the kic

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 15:04, Sean DALY wrote: > InfoSlicer has been called out in our two press releases... as a > resource for teachers Talking about press releases, we don't have there Labyrinth (mind maps) :( Tomeu > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Sat, Apr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Sean DALY
InfoSlicer has been called out in our two press releases... as a resource for teachers On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 14:43, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> Hi Tomeu, >> >> I'm curious how setting which activities show up as Favorites works at a >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 14:43, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > I'm curious how setting which activities show up as Favorites works at a > technical level. > > How hard is that to change? Its quite important right now as part of the > initial user experience.  We don't want broken activities,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Tomeu, I'm curious how setting which activities show up as Favorites works at a technical level. How hard is that to change? Its quite important right now as part of the initial user experience. We don't want broken activities, we want cool activities that people "get" quickly. Ideally, when

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 23:21, James Simmons wrote: > I haven't actually tried SoaS-Beta-1 (I'm assuming this is different > from what was released on the 10th) but I do have some leftover comments > based on what I saw last week. > > One thing we have to consider with Sugar on a Stick is that for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:45, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > Booted in VMWare 1.08 "create new VM", pointing at the just-announced .iso. > I am running VMWare in Ubuntu Intrepid.  Sugar comes up, and I can use the > built in activities that don't require networking or sound. > > However, the virtua

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Booted in VMWare 1.08 "create new VM", pointing at the just-announced .iso. I am running VMWare in Ubuntu Intrepid. Sugar comes up, and I can use the built in activities that don't require networking or sound. However, the virtual ethernet connection is not properly configured. The dmesg says th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-17 Thread Walter Bender
All very good suggestions, thanks. Please do try the new Beta, as it fixes a number of issues with the version from the 10th, including many sound and network problems. -walter On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:21 PM, James Simmons wrote: > I haven't actually tried SoaS-Beta-1 (I'm assuming this is dif

[Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-17 Thread James Simmons
I haven't actually tried SoaS-Beta-1 (I'm assuming this is different from what was released on the 10th) but I do have some leftover comments based on what I saw last week. One thing we have to consider with Sugar on a Stick is that for many, maybe most people it will be their first experience