Hi, I see a few issues that pretty much need to be solved in order. <ol><li>How can we enable writers to easily change the Help Content, bring it up to date and customize it for the XO and for Sugar on a Stick.</li> <li>Who will bring it up to date and customize it?</li><li>How can it be localized effectively? </li><li>Who will enable different versions to go into different releases?</li><li>How will people find the Help content, a ? in the activity ring and/or from Browse.</li></ol>Its easy to discuss #5 bur really until we solve the ones above it it hardly matters. So how can I help cause issue 1 to be solved? Thanks, Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, S Page <<a href="mailto:skierpage@gmail.com">skierpage@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Seth Woodworth wrote: > If not for Rainbow I think that the help activity and the browser could access the same material. </div>?? I can visit file:///home/olpc/Activities/Help.activity/help/XO_Introduction.html fine in Browse in 8.2.1. (Does having a developer key affect Rainbow file access restrictions?) On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Yama Ploskonka <<a href="mailto:yama@netoso.com">yama@netoso.com</a>> responded: <div class="im">> <snip> >> >> The point of having the Help activity as its own icon was to put it as </div>>> close and easy to the user as possible. ... <div class="im">> > As is now, an inconspicuous icon among many, low usability score. </div>I think a prominent help icon and "Need help?" text on Browse's start page would be far more discoverable than a (?) among many, but I live in the browser. The OLPC 8.2.1 start page is <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/tree/library-common/layout.tmpl" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/tree/library-common/layout.tmpl</a> Code rebuilds the nifty expanding Library of local content whenever you install content, see <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library</a> , this could also detect installation of local help. The SugarLabs start page is <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/blobs/master/data/index.html" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/blobs/master/data/index.html</a> Sugar distributions lack the expanding Library (SL ticket 574) but maybe that's moot if <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library</a> comes to fruition. You can determine in JavaScript if there's a local help manual in the file system or not and create a link to it accordingly; seems-to-work code is at <a href="http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/show_help.html" target="_blank">http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/show_help.html</a> Seth: <div class="im">> I really really really owe the Sugar community a long email documenting > what the heck went on with the Help activity last year </div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FLOSSManuals" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FLOSSManuals</a> has a section ready and waiting ;-) Cheers, -- =S Page </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax