[sugar] G1G1v2 Activities

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

then I'd also suggest the Xavier activity, which does:

- bidding game
- chat
- file sharing

Xavier uses cerebro directly.

Tree: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/ypod/Xavier-activity;a=summary
Snapshots:
http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/index.php/Image:Who.png
http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/index.php/Image:What.png
http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/index.php/Image:Bidding2.png (in Gnome)


Pol

Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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> Chris Ball wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> |    > Please pick up to 10 and put them in order of priority.
> |
> |    > We will tally the votes and use that as input to the decision.
> |
> | So, we shipped 19 activities with G1G1v1; that means the ten activities
> | people vote for here are likely to be a subset of that list, and we
> | aren't learning much about what new things we should include.  People
> | replying might decide to give 20 suggestions instead of 10, or to omit
> | original G1G1 activities from their list.
> |
>
> Also, G1G1v1 shipped with the old Sugar interface, which made managing
> large numbers of installed Activities very difficult.  By contrast, the
> new Sugar UI means that we could easily ship 100 Activities, with only 15
> starred by default.  Activities' average size on disk varies
> substantially, but many simpler ones are only about 100 KB, compressed.
> 100 Activities * 100 KB = 10 MB, or 1% of the disk.  Each additional
> Activity provides more opportunity for exploration, and makes the
> experience more enjoyable, so I would advocate for shipping as many as
> possible.
>
> - --Ben
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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
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Viral Communications
MIT Media Lab
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