[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

[Sean DALY]

many thanks Martin for finding that thread for me, I have so much
going on I'm having trouble remembering keywords to look things up

Actually what faked me out was the fine print about XO software
update: it won't update to the latest Activity version on ASLO, just
the latest OLPC supported Activity version. Which is of course
perfectly logical now that I think about it, but as Activity versions
are coming fast & furious, I had lost confidence in the "Your software
is up-to-date" message... since I knew more recent versions were
available. Intuitively, I would expect ASLO to be polled by Sugar
machines... in clicking, I expect the machine to figure out all by
itself what it needs to be up to date... I guess the best way out of
that is to ask OLPC to title that page "Search for OLPC updates"?

Re USB: a brief little popup saying "Your USB key is visible in the
Journal" would be helpful I think.

Sean


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Martin Dengler<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:58:39AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> Yes, that's the procedure when running Sugar and using Browse... which
>> I wasn't doing. A couple of phrases removing the mystery will help us;
>> it's a lowering-the-barriers issue... we can't assume everyone will
>> alertly figure it out.
>
> This is the email thread you may have been thinking of, with a "couple
> of phrases" suggested:
> http://n2.nabble.com/-Marketing--adding-or-updating-an-Activity:-two-typical-teacher-scenarios,-let%27s-%09lower-barrier-to-installation-td2981491.html
> (ugh, that's a horrible link).
>
>> After all, common sense tells you that Software Update in the
>> Control Panel should check for Activity updates, which it sort of
>> does, but also doesn't.
>
> It does (check for activity updates that OLPC supports) on OLPC
> builds.  The Software Update extension in the Control Panel doesn't
> exist (well, it's broken and hidden) on SoaS.  So it either works as
> designed, or isn't present.
>
>>  I only recently figured out how to browse files on a USB
>> key from within Sugar :-)
>
> How can this be made easier for newcomers to learn?
>
>> Sean
>
> Martin
>