[IAEP] Sad

[Albert Cahalan]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Am 17.09.2008 um 10:19 schrieb Albert Cahalan:

>> Within the Sugar community, certain activities are adored.
>> They hold privileged positions, generally being installed
>> be default despite not being of a utility (shell, browser)
>> nature. They even get to hide their bloat by being allowed
>> to require RPMs that are of no use to anything else. They
>> are terribly slow. They are terribly complicated.
>
> Feel free to name names, and please state why providing those activities is
> bad for a learning device, and don't hesitate to suggest a (non-Sugar) Linux
> application as replacement.
>
> If you are thinking of the same activity I think you are, then this got

"activities" -- plural

At least two activities obviously qualify, but I hate to pick
on them because other activities share many of the same
issues. It's in fact rather typical for activities to frustrate.
I actually have serious doubt about the learning value of
some of these activities, even ignoring the problems with
ease of use.

In my previous email I probably strayed too far from my main
point: as long as we remain oblivious to deficiencies and
insist on staying the course, we're handing kids to Microsoft.
It's damn hard to step back and see things as others do,
especially after spending tons of effort on cool new ideas.