[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-19

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:08:41PM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> I'd like to point out that my three Activities being released are in
> the "Physician, heal thyself!" category.  In the process of writing
> "Write Your Own Sugar Activities!" I found myself recommending
> practices I had never used.  These new releases are a first attempt to
> bring my Activities in line with my own recommendations.
> 
> I really like the way the new toolbars came out and only wish I could
> use them on my XO.
> 
> I had to test these on SoaS and I discovered that the menu options to
> copy something from a USB thumb drive or SD card to the Journal are
> missing and apparently have been missing from some time.  The only way
> to copy something from USB to the thumb drive now is to use the
> clipboard.

but afaik we didn't have such menu option
except "Copy" object could be dragged to journal or activated in place

> I really, REALLY don't like this.  When I copy an Activity
> or a book from thumb drive to Journal using this method I don't get
> the file name as the Journal entry title.  Instead, I just get a
> description based on the MIME type.  This is really, really bad.
> Maybe the original fine name wasn't the best possible title for a
> Journal entry but at least you had some idea of what the Journal entry
> was and you could easily change it.  Now every book is just "text
> clipping" and every Activity is "Sugar Activity bundle", plus getting
> these lousy results is more work than just doing a straight copy to
> the Journal.
> 
> The other problem I had with SoaS Blueberry was that even though I was
> using a 4GB thumb drive with a 3GB overlay the Journal reported having
> only 30 some megabytes free after I downloaded just a few books,
> nowhere near 3GB worth.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:52:26 -0400
> > From: Sugar Labs Activities <activities at sugarlabs.org>
> > Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-19
> > To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > Message-ID: <cc77bdc1ab500325811c1141543aab43 at 192.168.90.2>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > Activity Homepage:
> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4035
> >
> > Sugar Platform:
> > 0.82 - 0.88
> >
> > Download Now:
> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26830/read_etexts-19.xo
> >
> > Release notes:
> > Provides a new style toolbar for those versions of Sugar that support it (currently only Sugar on a Stick) and retains the old toolbar for older versions of Sugar.  For most Gutenberg text the book text will be reformatted automatically to allow word wrapping.  This will allow you to make fonts very large without cutting off any text, as the text will wrap to fit the new margins.  Read Etexts will not convert the text of books that have excessively long paragraphs.  These may be read without wrapping as before.  Most texts will be converted.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sugar Labs Activities
> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org
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-- 
Aleksey