Re: [Sugar-devel] "Howtos" within Sugar Activities (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:51 AM, samy boutayeb wrote: > Le mardi 11 octobre 2011 à 10:23 -0400, > sugar-devel-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org a écrit : > > Also, by including even simple help strings, the burden on the > > translator when from a few hundred single-word strings to many many > > long

Re: [Sugar-devel] "Howtos" within Sugar Activities (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-11 Thread Sean DALY
Sugar is disorienting for adults including teachers used to traditional systems, so help is... helpful. MacOS 7/8/9 style help balloons (toggled on/off systemwide? per Activity?) would I think aid in discovery of both Sugar and a new, unknown Activity. Sean On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:51 PM, samy

Re: [Sugar-devel] "Howtos" within Sugar Activities (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-11 Thread samy boutayeb
Le mardi 11 octobre 2011 à 10:23 -0400, sugar-devel-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org a écrit : > Also, by including even simple help strings, the burden on the > translator when from a few hundred single-word strings to many many > long sentences. Even so, the real explanations are found in the wiki. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] "Howtos" within Sugar Activities (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-11 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > The problem with this is localization. > If we want achieve all the activities translated  to all the needed > languages > (more than 110 active languages in pootle at this moment) > you can see including manuals/howtos in the activities we

Re: [Sugar-devel] "Howtos" within Sugar Activities (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-11 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
The problem with this is localization. If we want achieve all the activities translated to all the needed languages (more than 110 active languages in pootle at this moment) you can see including manuals/howtos in the activities we will have a space problem. We are thinking in include a minimal he

[Sugar-devel] "Howtos" within Sugar Activities (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-11 Thread Bastien
I have read all the interesting input regarding refreshing the Help activity and collectively writing up new Sugar lessons. One simple idea: why not try to put "howtos" *within* Sugar Activities? For example, the Turtle Art activity would have such a folder: how/general-tutorial.txt how/draw