[Sugar-devel] Yama First impressions, OLPC OS 13.1 31018

[Kim]

Kim <kimtoufectis <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
>I'd call my 1.5 HS first impressions "poor."  Beginning from a clean install
>(fs-update from a USB stick), things loaded fine and the opening "hello" boot-up
>experience is improved.  After using the control panel to connect to the web,
>set time, place, jabber, and frame settings, I killed Sugar in Browse amost
>immediately (I tried to save the clipping I had just made of my developer key
>link to my journal using the context menu the appears when hovering over the
>clipping icon on the left side of the frame).  In three years of using an xo-1
>and -1.5, this OS crashed more quickly than any other, and that includes some of
>the earlier builds in this sequence (number 8 didn't have these problems).
> 
>Finally getting the developeer key into Terminal produced a "that certificate is
>invalid" message, so to complete the process I needed to add
>"--no-check-certificate" to the end of the command as instructed.  These are
>great ways to let send non-tech folks like me know they're not the target
>audience...
> 
>I agree the Sugar interface doesn't seem a developer priority right now; that's
>a shame.  I am puzzled that brand new activities often only support older
>OS's...and Dextrose 3 had some features I've given up hoping for in other
>versions of sugar, like an indicator of processor/memory strain in the frame and
>an easy way to offer user feedback
> 
>Switching over to the Gnome interface also failed to delight:  I can't hide the
>bars at the top and bottom of the screen by right-clicking as I could in the
>past, and choosing on "Change Desktop Background" after right-clicking on the
>desktop did nothing.
> 
>In gnome I do like that I don't have to reconnect to wifi; my settings carry
>over from Sugar.
> 
Playing with this iteration of Sugar some more on a 1.5 HS, I find that trying
to save any clipping to the journal kills the activity, and code streams by on a
black background as (presumably) Sugar reboots, whether in Browse or elsewhere.

As was true for version 8, certain letters (L's and I's I think) seem to vanish
from certain text; so "Feliz Navidad" becomes "Fe  z Nav dad" in the
similarly-named activity.  Closing that activity also caused Sugar to reboot.

Ignore the repeat that follows; I wasn't able to post less than I quoted so I'm
just going to triple my post through repetition.
 
Playing with this iteration of Sugar some more on a 1.5 HS, I find that trying
to save any clipping to the journal kills the activity, and code streams by on a
black background as (presumably) Sugar reboots, whether in Browse or elsewhere.

As was true for version 8, certain letters (L's and I's I think) seem to vanish
from certain text; so "Feliz Navidad" becomes "Fe  z Nav dad" in the
similarly-named activity.  Closing that activity also caused Sugar to reboot.

Playing with this iteration of Sugar some more on a 1.5 HS, I find that trying
to save any clipping to the journal kills the activity, and code streams by on a
black background as (presumably) Sugar reboots, whether in Browse or elsewhere.

As was true for version 8, certain letters (L's and I's I think) seem to vanish
from certain text; so "Feliz Navidad" becomes "Fe  z Nav dad" in the
similarly-named activity.  Closing that activity also caused Sugar to reboot.