Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 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
In the press release? Since, Labyrinth isn't included in the beta, that's probably not a bad thing... ;) --Sebastian >> 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 _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
