[Sugar-devel] [Testing] Testing summary - 10 January 2009

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:31, Mohit Taneja <mohitgenii at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Food Force II
>>
>> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing countries
>> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of
>> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but does
>> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen are
>> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons at
>> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when trying
>> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are now"
>> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village).
>> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than local? We
>> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing this
>> improve.
>
> Hi,
> I would firstly like to thank you guys for your comments.
> Well definitely, I accept that moving the screen by making the mouse go
> towards the edges is a problem, one reaason being that the control buttons
> are within their range also in some cases it leads to the frame being showed
> when one takes the mouse pointer to a particular edge. We would work on
> making the requisite changes.
> Also, it would be great to show the exact location of the player on the mini
> map (right hand side - middle ).
> And surely working on efficiency is always a priority.

If the SugarLabs's activity team would like to schedule an irc session
about performance, I'd be glad to share the tricks I have learnt
during the last two years.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards,
> Mohit Taneja
> Developer
> Food Force II
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabitha.roder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Thanks to Ian Thomson for coming along and talking to everyone about
>> Oceania deployments. There were lots of fantastic talks today with a diverse
>> group of people present. We are hoping to hear some kiwi's could be
>> volunteering in the Pacific Islands over the next few months - fingers
>> crossed funds can be found.
>>
>> Who came: Carl, Ian, Edward, Murray, Brenda, Callum, Uli, Jonathan, Kaleb,
>> Joshhua, Aida, Tabitha, Aaron, Douglas, Queenie
>>
>> Food Force II
>> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing countries
>> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of
>> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but does
>> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen are
>> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons at
>> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when trying
>> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are now"
>> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village).
>> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than local? We
>> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing this
>> improve.
>>
>> Chat
>> Today we had bonjour chat on Ubuntu (pidgin on 8.10 and 8.4) talking to
>> the XOs without issue. Intiating a chat from Ubuntu to the XOs would pop up
>> a chat icon, which clicking on would start a Chat application. However, a OS
>> X macbook with (using ichat bonjour) could see the XO's, but would return
>> the error message "Instant Message connection failed. The other person's
>> computer may not be reachable." Also, there is no way for an XO to initiate
>> a chat, or see non-XO computers using the bonjour chat protocol.
>>
>> Plans for next couple of weeks -
>> Next Saturday 17 January - learn how to pull apart your XO and put it back
>> together (thanks Callum, our resident expert in XO repairs) - at The Cross
>> Tuesday 27 January - meet Walter Bender, SugarLabs founder - further
>> details to come but can say it will be at Catalyst offices in Willis Street
>> One day soon - update from Andrew McMillan on OLPC presentations at Linux
>> Conference (February?)
>> One day soon - Martin Langhoff update on School server and python for
>> sugar programming sessions (February?)
>>
>> Feel free to invite others.
>>
>> To keep up to date with what the New Zealand OLPC volunteers are doing,
>> subscribe to olpc-nz at lists.laptop.org by going to
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz
>>
>> Have a fantastic week!
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Tabitha Roder
>>
>> (64)21482229
>>
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