[Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

[Jim Simmons]

Joshua,

Before you upgrade an Activity you need to remove the existing one
from the Journal.  There is no way to overlay an old Activity with a
new one.  Activities are self contained, so this is not as traumatic
as it would be with other popular desktop environments.

Read Etexts only does text to speech for books, not for that bit of
Help text that starts with the Groucho Marx quote.  It never occurred
to me that anyone would want to have text to speech with highlighting
for the Help.  I could add that in a future release if others are
confused by that.

James Simmons


> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:31:25 +0530
> From: Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image
> To: Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> Cc: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
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> I tried upgrading an activity (Read Etext from 14 to 15) using the
> Browser. Read Etext downloaded. A journal detail screen appeared, but I
> couldn't start the new activity. When I exited the journal detail view,
> I could not find the new download in the main journal listing. I checked
> ~olpc/Activities/ReadETexts.activity/activity/activity.info for the
> version (still 14). Version 15 seems to have disappeared.
>
> I upgraded Read Etexts using sugar-install-bundle from USB key. That
> worked (according to what is in my home dir). However, the home view
> still claims that I have version 14 installed. This was corrected by
> restarting sugar (Ctl-Alt-Del).
>
> Read Etexts shows the Speech tab, but I'm not sure how to get it to read
> what is on the screen. I didn't try to load a book. I just want to read
> the introductory text. Pressing the play button does nothing. I looked
> at the log file, but I didn't find anything suspicious.