On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 14:43, Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> 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, we want cool > activities that people "get" quickly. Ideally, when a cool activity is > fixed it would be great to add it to the beta, but we have to balance that > against stability of the image. > > If its not too hard to change I think we should set up a wiki page where we > can discuss what should be in the favorites rings and potentially update the > image fairly regularly.
It's quite easy, a matter of editing this file here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/sugar.ks#line83 and spinning a new build. > Personally, I nominate FlipSticks and think InfoSlicer should not be in the > ring. > > Also when a new activity is downloaded is it automatically added to the > favorites ring? Yes. Regards, Tomeu > Thanks, > Caroline > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 23:21, James Simmons <jim.simm...@walgreens.com> >> 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 many, >> > maybe most people it will be their first experience of Sugar. We need >> > to consider that when we choose what Activities to install by default. >> > We want Activities that make a good first impression. By that, I mean >> > Activities that a kid can click on the icon to bring them up and start >> > fooling around with them without having to read instructions first. >> > >> > I am flattered as hell that View Slides made the cut, but as its author >> > I say it is a lousy choice. Read Etexts, which is not included but >> > which I believe Aleksey Lim was thinking about including, would have >> > been equally bad. To actually use these Activities you need to read the >> > website first. You can't just click on their icons and get them to do >> > anything useful. To use View Slides you need to have some content in >> > the Journal, it has to be in the correct format, and you have to do >> > something non-obvious to Resume it. View Slides doesn't make a good >> > first impression. >> > >> > In contrast to that, the Tam Tam Activities make a *much* better first >> > impression but are not included. >> >> In http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/768 >> >> > Pippy might be a better choice than Develop, for similar reasons. Pippy >> > has built in code samples ready to try out. Develop does not. Also, on >> > the machines I tried Develop used a *very* small font in the edit >> > window. >> >> Created http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/767 >> >> > I notice Read is not included. Now Read *could* be something that gives >> > a good first impression. Suppose you had the DJVU evince plugins >> > installed, you could perhaps start SoaS with an eBook from the Internet >> > Archive already in the Journal. A good choice might be the beautifully >> > illustrated edition of The Wizard of Oz from that website, in either >> > djvu or PDF format. The kid would click on the entry in the Journal, >> > and because it uses a MIME type that is only used by Read it would open >> > right up. >> >> The idea was that viewer activities like Read, Read ETexts, etc would >> not appear in the favorites window. They are installed (can see in the >> activities list), but will be launched only once the user tries to >> view some content from the journal. >> >> Has been suggested that we ship some files already in the journal. >> >> > I'm warming up to the idea of Unified Bundles that was discussed on >> > Sugar-devel last week. If we had that working we could include actual >> > books in the Activity Ring and properly show off what Sugar could do >> > with plain text files, slide shows, etc. >> > >> > Until then I would prefer that kids find out about Read Etexts and View >> > Slides from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/. They'll have a better >> > idea what to expect from them if they read about them on that website >> > first. >> >> Sounds good, please keep opening tickets so people are reminded about it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tomeu >> >> > James Simmons >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel