Thanks Tomeu,I would definitely like to attend something like that. Regards, Mohit Taneja
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:31, Mohit Taneja <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Food Force II > >> > >> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing > countries > >> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of > >> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but > does > >> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen > are > >> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons > at > >> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when > trying > >> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are > now" > >> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village). > >> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than > local? We > >> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing > this > >> improve. > > > > Hi, > > I would firstly like to thank you guys for your comments. > > Well definitely, I accept that moving the screen by making the mouse go > > towards the edges is a problem, one reaason being that the control > buttons > > are within their range also in some cases it leads to the frame being > showed > > when one takes the mouse pointer to a particular edge. We would work on > > making the requisite changes. > > Also, it would be great to show the exact location of the player on the > mini > > map (right hand side - middle ). > > And surely working on efficiency is always a priority. > > If the SugarLabs's activity team would like to schedule an irc session > about performance, I'd be glad to share the tricks I have learnt > during the last two years. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > Regards, > > Mohit Taneja > > Developer > > Food Force II > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tabitha Roder <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello > >> > >> Thanks to Ian Thomson for coming along and talking to everyone about > >> Oceania deployments. There were lots of fantastic talks today with a > diverse > >> group of people present. We are hoping to hear some kiwi's could be > >> volunteering in the Pacific Islands over the next few months - fingers > >> crossed funds can be found. > >> > >> Who came: Carl, Ian, Edward, Murray, Brenda, Callum, Uli, Jonathan, > Kaleb, > >> Joshhua, Aida, Tabitha, Aaron, Douglas, Queenie > >> > >> Food Force II > >> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing > countries > >> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of > >> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but > does > >> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen > are > >> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons > at > >> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when > trying > >> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are > now" > >> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village). > >> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than > local? We > >> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing > this > >> improve. > >> > >> Chat > >> Today we had bonjour chat on Ubuntu (pidgin on 8.10 and 8.4) talking to > >> the XOs without issue. Intiating a chat from Ubuntu to the XOs would pop > up > >> a chat icon, which clicking on would start a Chat application. However, > a OS > >> X macbook with (using ichat bonjour) could see the XO's, but would > return > >> the error message "Instant Message connection failed. The other person's > >> computer may not be reachable." Also, there is no way for an XO to > initiate > >> a chat, or see non-XO computers using the bonjour chat protocol. > >> > >> Plans for next couple of weeks - > >> Next Saturday 17 January - learn how to pull apart your XO and put it > back > >> together (thanks Callum, our resident expert in XO repairs) - at The > Cross > >> Tuesday 27 January - meet Walter Bender, SugarLabs founder - further > >> details to come but can say it will be at Catalyst offices in Willis > Street > >> One day soon - update from Andrew McMillan on OLPC presentations at > Linux > >> Conference (February?) > >> One day soon - Martin Langhoff update on School server and python for > >> sugar programming sessions (February?) > >> > >> Feel free to invite others. > >> > >> To keep up to date with what the New Zealand OLPC volunteers are doing, > >> subscribe to [email protected] by going to > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz > >> > >> Have a fantastic week! > >> > >> Kind regards > >> Tabitha Roder > >> > >> (64)21482229 > >> > >> Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Testing mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Richard Dawkins - "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so > > open-minded that our brains drop out." > > _______________________________________________ > > Testing mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing > > > > > -- Richard Dawkins - "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
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