Bernie. Thanks so much for this. With the 5th grade US students I work with, this customization is really important to their sense of ownership.
By the way, how do you upgrade the XOs (we have XO-1s) to .84? This is a very big deal for us. Thanks. Gerald On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org>wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:35 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > > So +1 to look customization. E.g., why not allow to change the > > gray frame color? In Etoys you can at least change the toolbar > > color (not permanently though, I should fix that). Even if it > > enrages our latte-drinking black-wearing designer friends ;) > > they're kids after all ... > > I feel that Sugar should aim to reach the same level of "hackability" of > eToys: every UI element is an object that you could drag, drop, copy or > modify. > > Of course, this has consequences in terms of stability and clarity. > Before we could unleash this power we need to think of ways to recover > from mistakes. If multiple undo is too hard, a "restore everything to > defaults" might be good enough. > > Perhaps we're worrying too much. Re-installing the system from USB takes > only 3 minutes and is already being done very often. A boy just showed > up on the door of the repair lab, saying: "se borrĂ³ el Navegador" (the > Browse activity deleted itself :-) > > All we need to do is make the backup-update-restore procedure slightly > more automated so that kids and teachers could do it without bothering > the technicians. > > Actually, we don't even need to worry too much for a solid backup and > restore procedure. I've always suspected that most kids wouldn't care > about preserving their diary. Now it's confirmed: kids are flocking here > to get the new version of Sugar even though their journals are not going > to be preserved across the upgrade. > > On the other hand, teachers and teacher trainers always ask to preserve > the content of their journal. Technicians use a pair of simple shell > scripts to tar up the journal to a USB stick, so they don't depend on > being within the range of the correct school server. > > I'll summarize all these things in a field report asap. > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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