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

[Mohit Taneja]

Thanks Tomeu,I would definitely like to attend something like that.

Regards,
Mohit Taneja

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo
> >>
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