[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

Aleksey Lim alsroot at member.fsf.org
Wed Jun 10 13:43:56 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
> FWIW, I have tried and failed to understand fructose, glucose, honey,
> etc. When I get around to writing a little Activity I guess I'll climb
> that learning curve.
> 
> I'm sure it's a useful classification system, but I don't think
> teachers, parents, or Learners need any level of system architecture
> detail. Simpler is better.
true, maybe "Basic"
I guess "Preinstalled" doesn't make sense as well
(for example in openSUSE we have ~40 preinstalled activities:)

> If tagging is possible for each Activity,
yup, it should work

> perhaps it would be better
> to do that? a simple search on "fructose" would return the list,
> right?
in current code there is a restriction of 3 simultaneously pinned tags
I guess in that case we should increase this limit :)

> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
> >> I think that's a great idea - will be very helpful in identifying the
> >> "classics".
> > I've created Fructose(but not sure about name) category for that reason
> >
> >>
> >> i don't mind trying to write the instructions if someone else can edit
> >> & post them.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Sean
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM, James Simmons<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> >> > Sean,
> >> >
> >> > I had another thought.  Activities can be included in up to three categories
> >> > on ASLO.  So, in addition to GCompris we could also have a "Core" category
> >> > (or "Pre-Installed" or some other agreed upon phrase) that would include all
> >> > the Activities that are installed by default.  This would showcase our most
> >> > essential Activities and also give people a place to download stuff they may
> >> > have removed by mistake.
> >> >
> >> > When I first got my XO I didn't have a wireless router, so I had to copy
> >> > everything in using a thumb drive.  I agree that some simple instructions
> >> > would be worthwhile.
> >> >
> >> > James Simmons
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sean
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Aleksey
> >
> 

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Aleksey


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