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

[Daniel Drake]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Kim <kimtoufectis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

The clipboard related issues are known and are being worked on. I
believe we have had them for the whole development cycle, not just
post build 8. They are introduced by the underlying technological
shift to GTK3 technologies, so it is not a trivial fix or something
that we can just revert to fix it. It will be fixed before the final
release is made though - we're making progress.

If you are seeing other problems, especially ones that have only
appeared after build 8, we'd very much appreciate further emails
describing them.

> 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.

The customization of some GNOME components has indeed decreased a bit
in the last few years, especially in the "GNOME fallback" mode that we
run. Some of the panel customizations can be restored by holding Alt
and right clicking. Perhaps not ideal, I know.

I don't think we were aware of the "Change Desktop Background"
problem, so I've filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12399 to look at
it later.

As for the I and L issue on XO-1.5, we're aware and have almost fixed
it. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12354

Thanks again for the feedback. If there are other problems that you've
encountered but haven't described, please send followup emails letting
us know.

Daniel