On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 15:04, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> 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 <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel