Here's a list of activities that I think would be great, both worth starring and worth having unstarred (it's a large enough list now that it's confusing to have them all on the home screen by default, but there are lots of great activities that people who know about them will want even when they're offline with no way to get new activities). There may be another 5-10 of these that are worth unstarring for a clean, useful firstboot home screen... I'm testing these over the weekend. OLPCorps classes had lovely stories about using both Micropolis and Moon with parents and students becoming interested because of those activities (Moon for religious reasons). Words still accumulates bad characters at the start of its input field if you keep using it and encounter words with accents, but it's also been very useful. Read Etexts is a bit redundant with Get Books, but it is lovely in its own focused way, and small. OOo4kids and Gcompris (a suitable subset) would be excellent additions... both have sizeable development communities compared to most of the activities here SJ <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">TO TEST: ==============<div class="im"> Browse Calculate Chat Distance Etoys Implode Infoslicer IRC </div>Labyrinth Maze Measure Memorize<div class="im"> Physics Pippy Read Record Scratch Speak TamTam * Terminal Turtle Art Typing Turtle </div>Words Write [ADD] Get Books Help Wikibrowse (en, es) .. Falabracman FoodForce2 Micropolis (Corps support!) OOo4Kids (link to Gnome) </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">GCompris TuxPaint .. Finance Geogebra SocialCalc [UNSTAR] Analyze Jukebox Log Moon (Corps story!) Paint [ADD & UNSTAR] VNC Launcher Read Etexts?<div><div></div><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote"> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Ball <<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org" target="_blank">cjb@laptop.org</a>> Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:54 PM Subject: Re: Devel Digest, Vol 45, Issue 53 To: "Reuben K. Caron" <<a href="mailto:reuben@laptop.org" target="_blank">reuben@laptop.org</a>> Cc: OLPC Development <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>>, Eric Bachard <<a href="mailto:ericb@openoffice.org" target="_blank">ericb@openoffice.org</a>> Hi, [Added ericb to CC; Eric, we're talking about which applications to include by default on our OLPC XO-1.5 software release.] <div> > How about suggestions for programs on the Gnome side? </div>That's a good idea, thanks. I haven't decided what to do about OpenOffice yet -- at the moment we don't ship it, but do ship abiword and gnumeric. The options for it look something like: * just add the <a href="http://openoffice.org" target="_blank">openoffice.org</a> Fedora packages for GNOME. (How much disk space would that use?) * just add the Ooo4Kids activity for Sugar. * just add the Ooo4Kids activity for Sugar, *and* find a way to make the same activity launchable inside GNOME. This would need Ooo4Kids to be useful for older kids as well, since they're the target audience for using GNOME instead of Sugar. The OOo4Kids activity is here: <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4241" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4241</a> (100MB) Perhaps someone could try out OOo4Kids, see how it compares to standard OpenOffice, and see how much disk space adding the full OpenOffice packages would require? <div> Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org" target="_blank">cjb@laptop.org</a>> One Laptop Per Child </div>_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> </div> </div></div></blockquote></div>