[Sugar-devel] Debian Advocacy for Sugar - Update - Issues found in Memorize Activity v58

[James Cameron]

Thanks.

Is there anything you can help with to get those three activities
included?  You might first find out why they are not part of the
testing distribution, and see if you can improve the situation.

Is there anything you can do to get other activities included?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:58:49PM +0000, shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I’ve listed the issues found in the Memorize activity. This was the last
> activity that I could test on Debian Bullseye.
> The remaining activities: sugar-record-activity, sugar-etoys-activity,
> sugar-finance-activity from the [1]Sugar Debian Repository are not part of the
> Debian Bullseye packages at the moment.
> I will post what was tested and the issues found in all the activities on
> Debian Bullseye soon.
> 
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> 
> Sugar Memorise Activity v58
> 
> sudo apt install sugar-memorize-activity
> 
>  1. On hovering over ‘grid size’ buttons, a warning is displayed:
> 
>      (sugar-activity3:1859): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:04:20.416: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions.
>      Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menuitem owner SugarPaletteHeader)
> 
>  2. Editing the game doesn’t work, the activity gets stuck [2]#29
> 
>  3. Activity saves its state to the Datastore but does not load it properly, a
>     fresh instance is started. Therefore, the user is unable to save their
>     progress and continue later.
> 
>  4. The activity’s sounds and images (which are optional) depend on art4apps (
>     [3]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps), which is not installed by
>     default. Hence none of the sounds and words to generate cards dynamically
>     are included. The user is not notified of winning as there is neither text
>     displayed saying he/she has won nor the winning sound (win.wav from
>     art4apps) is played.
> 
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> 
> This simple Multitail config for highlighting the logs that I’ve setup, may be
> useful to others:
> 
> # Paste the snippet into /etc/multitail.conf
> # (or) save as .multitailrc in the home directory
> 
> # Sugar
> colorscheme:sugar
> cs_re:green:DEBUG
> cs_re:red:ERROR
> cs_re_s:yellow:(Warning.*)
> cs_re_s:blue:([0-9]{10,}\.[0-9]{6,})
> #
> 
> Usage: multitail -CS sugar -iw "*YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME*" 1 -m 0
> eg. multitail -CS sugar -iw "*Memorize*" 1 -m 0
> 
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> 
> Best,
> Shaan
> 
> ​
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-sugar-team
> [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs/memorize-activity/issues/29
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps

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James Cameron
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