I&#39;ve taken the liberty to move this thread to a non-private mailing list...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Forwarded conversation</span><br>Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">Re: [support-gang] 10 things you should know about Sugar</b><br>

------------------------<br><br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Martin Dengler</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:martin@martindengler.com">martin@martindengler.com</a>&gt;</span><br>

Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:30 AM<br>To: &quot;Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT <a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a>&gt;<br>

</font><br></span><br>On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:56:00AM -0400, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi all,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; one of the things I started compiling during the olpc realness summit<br>
&gt; back in May was a list of &quot;10 things you should know about Sugar&quot;. This<br>
&gt; is meant to help decide which aspects of Sugar to introduce first-time<br>
&gt; users, regardless of whether they&#39;re children or adults.<br>
[...]<br>
&gt; (4) The four different Views, possibly combined with how to connect to a<br>
&gt; network<br>
<br>
Not sure what your four views are; according to the HIG, the fourth<br>
&quot;view&quot; is the activity view (&quot;Zoom metaphor&quot;[1]).  I think the<br>
Journal[2] is a further &quot;Zoom level&quot; and argue for this in tickets<br>
dlo.6251[3] and slo.1518[4].<br>
<br>
Please add comments to these bugs if anyone feels strongly about this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1518" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1518</a><br>
<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6251" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6251</a><br>
<br>
Martin<br>
<br>
1. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor</a><br>


2. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal</a><br>
says &quot; The Journal&#39;s primary function [is to be] a time-based view of<br>
a child&#39;s activities [...]&quot;<br>
3. <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6251" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6251</a><br>
4. <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1518" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1518</a><br>
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<br><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Mikus Grinbergs</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com">mikus@bga.com</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:55 AM<br>

To: &quot;Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \&quot;help AT <a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a>\&quot;&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a>&gt;<br>

Cc: Devel &lt;<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>&gt;, <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br></font><br></span><br>Martin is revisiting whether &#39;Journal&#39; should be considered a &quot;View&quot;.<br>


<br>
I think how &#39;My Settings&#39; is considered should also be revisited.  My<br>
problem is that occasionally, due to some situation (which I myself<br>
might have caused), I am unable to bring up Home Circle View.  Then, if<br>
I need to change a &#39;My Settings&#39; parameter, I can at best reboot - in<br>
the hope that that will let me access &#39;My Settings&#39; again.<br>
<br>
<br>
I have the feeling that in tomorrow&#39;s versions there is an intent to<br>
move control parameters out of &#39;My Settings&#39; into the toolbar of the<br>
Activity affected by that setting.  While that solves the problem of<br>
&quot;easy access to a setting from an Activity&quot;, it results in dispersing<br>
discovery of &quot;What things in the system can the user change?&quot;.  I myself<br>
favor the centralizing of &quot;control knobs&quot;, instead of dispersing them.<br>
<br>
But yes, there is a need for easy access to those &quot;control knobs&quot;.  Now<br>
that (as a result of the High School keyboard) resources such as Journal<br>
(for which there were dedicated keys on the membrane keyboard) are being<br>
assigned to existing &quot;Function Keys&quot;, I would like to see &#39;My Settings&#39;<br>
also be considered a &quot;View&quot;, and be assigned its own invocation key.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,  mikus<br>
<br>
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<br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Gary Martin</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM<br>

To: &quot;<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com">mikus@bga.com</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com">mikus@bga.com</a>&gt;<br>Cc: Devel &lt;<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>&gt;, &quot;<a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>&gt;, &quot;Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT <a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a>&gt;<br>

</font><br></span><br>Hi Mikus,<br>
FWIW, the settings CP dialogue can be accessed from any of your own buddy icons (since Sugar 0.84 I think). So that&#39;s from the usual large home XO, your group XO, your neighbourhood XO, or your XO in the right frame.<br>


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--Gary<br>
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