[Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:41, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> I see; yes, facilitating for children is certainly the #1 priority.
>
> I gather you are talking about removing Restart from the user drop-down
> menu.
>
> I also assume that this does *not* apply to the CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE shortcut.
> If such is the case, I'll repeat my request that CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE be made to
> work on SoaS, as it does on the XO-1.
>
> If this request is appropriate, I'll happily enter a bug report. (I'll be
> out of town for 5 days and will check my mail for a reply when I return.)

This was a change that applies to Fedora so it trickled down to SoaS.
If you think this should be active by default for all users of SoaS
you need to enter a ticket for SoaS (it has nothing to do with Sugar).

Regards,

Tomeu

> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: "James Cameron" <quozl at laptop.org>; <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on
> XO icon incomplete
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:02, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I was mistaken about this. Both SoaS (yes, Strawberry) and the XO-1 act
>> identically: downloaded activities register immediately; *copied*
>> activities
>> (from a USB stick) require a restart to register.
>
> Btw, from 0.86 on you won't need to restart in that case, the
> Activities dir is monitored and new activities placed there are picked
> up.
>
>> As I stated previously, restarts (by whatever method) work fine on the
>> XO-1.
>>
>> With SoaS Strawberry, restart from the (old) user menu worked fine; the
>> CONTROL + ALT + BACKSPACE method crashes. I'd sure appreciate at least
>> *one*
>> SoaS option that works.
>
> If you search in the archives you will see that it was removed because
> it was causing problems to children. We appreciate each of our users,
> even more the ones that help us test and improve Sugar, but if we have
> to chose, we need to optimize the experience for children.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> To: "James Cameron" <quozl at laptop.org>
>> Cc: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>; <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on
>> XO icon incomplete
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:15, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:27:21PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> IIRC, the XO-1 and SoaS work differently when either downloading
>>>> Activities, or copying them via USB. (I'm forgetting now whether it's
>>>> one or the other or both.) In any case, the XO-1 registers them to the
>>>> list immediately, whereas on SoaS, a reboot is required for the new
>>>> Activities to appear.
>>>>
>>>> It certainly would be nice for SoaS to act like the XO-1 in this
>>>> regard.
>>>
>>> I agree. I'm afraid I don't yet know the code well enough to figure out
>>> why it happens. I suggest you raise a bug against SoaS to have new
>>> activities registered immediately without a reboot.
>>
>> There should be no difference in this regard, can someone verify if
>> this is happening?
>>
>> Also, when you say SoaS, you mean Strawberry, right?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
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>
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