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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The next step in this process is to
upload the working activities to the schoolserver and then
downloading and installing on an XO-1.5 with the 13.2.8 build to
verify that these activities also work on an XO. This can then
form a core of activities.<br>
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Part of the reduction in numbers from the 714 in ASLO came from
deleting the GCompris activities. These are available by
installation on gnome and then using a simple Sugar activity
wrapper. Unfortunately maintaining these activities separately
requires more investment of technical resources than are
available. The sugar-web-activities were not tested and so should
increase the number of available activities.<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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On Monday, 30 April, 2018 08:18 PM, Walter Bender wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Tony. This will help a lot as we try to put
the finishing touches on the new activity portal. Also, it will
provide further guidance to the student working on GTK2 porting.
As far as the Ubuntu bug, it is on our radar.
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<div>regards.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM Tony Anderson
<<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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2018 I downloaded the ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I <br>
generated a boot usb drive with dd. The usb stick was used to
install <br>
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS alongside Windows 10. Sugar was installed
using sudo <br>
apt-get install sucrose.<br>
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From <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/activities"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/activities</a>,
I scraped a list of <br>
the most recent versions of each activity. This list contained
714 <br>
entries. However a number turned out to be empty or
duplicates. These <br>
reduced the list to 516 activities.<br>
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I them matched each item against the repostories in <br>
'<a href="http://github.com/sugarlabs" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://github.com/sugarlabs</a>'.
There were corresponding repositories for <br>
222 of the 516 activities. All of these repositories (.zip)
were <br>
downloaded to the Positivo. One turned out to be empty: <br>
lybniz_graph_plotter.<br>
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The 221 repositories were unzipped and an attempt was made to
build a <br>
bundle with 'python setup.py dist_xo'. This process failed
with <br>
activities which included 'from sugar.activity import
activity'. These <br>
have not yet been ported to GTK3. This reduced the number of
activities <br>
to 106. Each of these activities was launched from the Home
View on the <br>
Positivo. Of these 91 executed as expected. The others failed
to start <br>
for various reasons.<br>
<br>
The details are in the attached spreadsheet - all normal
disclaimers <br>
apply. The comment 'help' means I didn't really understand how
to work <br>
the activity.<br>
<br>
Some general comments. The availability of Sugar on an LTS
version of a <br>
major distribution is an opportunity to demonstrate that the
value of <br>
Sugar is not limited to the XO. Unfortunately, the method to
launch <br>
Sugar is not obvious. You must click on your user panel to
show the <br>
password entry. Below, there is a 'gear' icon. You must click
on that to <br>
choose Sugar. Then you need to enter your Ubuntu password.<br>
<br>
On the first run, you are asked about colors, gender and age.
In this <br>
age with every site collecting private information for sale -
this does <br>
not make a good first impression.<br>
<br>
Sugar on Ubuntu launches to the (empty) Journal View! Ubuntu
itself <br>
provides a built-in set of welcome slides to introduce its new
features. <br>
Sadly, Sugar launches to a brick wall. The user needs to know
to display <br>
the Home View (using F3 or the Frame - F6).<br>
<br>
The Sugar install is minimal compared to what we have become
used to. <br>
The Home View has 5 activities: Browse, Calculate, Chat,
Pippy, and <br>
Write. Installed but not favorites are ImageViewer, Jukebox,
Log, Read, <br>
and Terminal. Presumably users are expected to install
additional <br>
activities from the 91 tested above. However, in general,
these bundles <br>
are not available on <a
href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">activities.sugarlabs.org</a>
and require some technical <br>
expertise to install from github.<br>
<br>
On a positive note: connection to the internet and to the
schoolserver <br>
was smooth. The Neighborhood View worked as expected.
Downloads from the <br>
school server to the Journal worked as normal. As far as I
could tell, <br>
the working activities showed normal screen coverage.<br>
<br>
On Sugar with Ubuntu, you are your Ubuntu user - not olpc.
Activities <br>
available to all Sugar users on a laptop are in <br>
/usr/share/sugar/activities. Activities installed by <br>
sugar-install-bundle are in /home/yourusername/Activities and
are only <br>
available to you. With some technical expertise you can copy
an activity <br>
to the /usr/share/sugar/Activities directory to share it with
other users.<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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