[Sugar-devel] new features for 102 (Walter Bender)

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Lionel Laské <lionel at olpc-france.org> wrote:
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>
> Hi Walter,
>
> Nice feature.
> Two questions:
> - It could be nice to include gender informations (and nickname too) in
> backups. At OLPC France (guess like at lot of other deployments) we
> developed a backup process that get datastore contents, gnome desktop
> contents and write a file name "nickname" with the XO informations,

The information is stored inGConf, your backup process can get it an
restore it later.

> - It seems that this feature is already include in the 0.100 Testing version
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Testing). Gender/age is asked at first
> boot.
> Is it a 0.100 feature too ?
>

The testing images include the work done for Australia deployment,
that is the reason, this and other features proposed by Walter are
already included.

Gonzalo


> Best regards from France.
>
>              Lionel.
>
>
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> 2013/11/5 <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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>> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:18:42 -0500
>> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> To: Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] new features for 102
>> Message-ID:
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>> I wrote up a page for a proposed enhancement to the About Me section
>> of the control panel [1].
>>
>> Summary:
>>
>> OLPC Australia uses gender and age as part of their program analysis.
>> They also use age to modify the behavior of some activities, e.g., the
>> robot in the Speak activity takes on the age of the user. The proposed
>> feature is to modify the About Me CP section and the initial intro
>> pages to include widgets for selecting gender and age.
>>
>> thanks for your consideration.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/AboutMe
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
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