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Summary

What I am trying to Achieve:

An enhanced "start new" screen for sugar.browse in the fedora.spin-soas v4. It should have a added customizable link and possibly Graphic Elements Suitable for SoaS v4 Mango Lassi

Ideas from Soas #sugar-meeting: 06/14/2010

Proposed custom default page for SoaS v4 Mango Lassi

Summary: add new link 'Introduction:-Mango Lassi' inserted to the left of the existing 5 links.
The Use of a customized introduction page on the wiki is a part of this proposal.

List of proposed links (left to right)

  1. Introduction:-Mango Lassi
Link to Custom wiki page
Special page on wiki with Needed Materials for using Soas-v4-Mango Lassi
This is a way for teachers and users to access information from the wiki and other pertinent web sites.
Uses this link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_Creation_Kit#Introduction_to_Soas-v3_Mirabelle - This will change for v-4 THIS IS A SAMPLE ONLY
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NOTES:
http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100705_1502.html
older Comments
Existing SoaS deployments
Other sugar deployments
SL Marketing
Fedora Marketing (not sure if this is applicable)

At least as much thought should go into changing the page as went into creating it in the first place.

MartinDengler 15:06, 14 June 2010 (EDT)

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Current status

Need to make git account and do edits so a diff can be created (mchua 06/16/2010) 
[15:29:57] <mchua> #agreed Browse start page feature accepted - mchua is the feature sponsor
[15:30:17]
[15:30:40] <mchua> #info Implementation: genericize patch, push to upstream Browse, edit wiki pages it links to - use this as an example of the feature process, as it's simple but an obvious change
[15:30:51]
[15:31:01] <mchua> hm, "clearly visible and easily to understand" is probably better than "obvious" but anyway...
[15:31:24] <mchua> satellit__: so go ahead and move it to the "accepted" section of the features list, and let me know when you're going to be in Portland and we'll sit down and work on it then.

Detailed Description

In a discussion with Peter Robinson, I discovered that a custom bookmark Browse.rpm can be downloaded from the fedora repository.

  1. Instructions
  2. Compatable Activities
  3. Installation Methods
  4. Floss Manuals
  5. Pertinent links to pages on wiki.sugarlabs.org
  6. Artwork -DVD/CD Covers etc
  7. e-books (?)
  8. Other sources of information (blogs/web sites etc)?

This allows a number of custom startup screens depending on the deployment or a schools requirements for Soas v4

Bernie has such a revised startup screen in his os240py software for the XO-1


This is the Proposed start screen

CLICK THIS LINK TO TEST: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/index14.html
This example will be changed when Mango Lassi becomes available
  1. I need to start a Git account
  2. Make proposed changes in Git to file http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/blobs/master/data/index.html

Suggestions on just what content should be included on this screen must be determined from discussions on the lists.

Benefit to Sugar

A simple enhancement to sugar.browse

MartinDengler 13:51, 14 June 2010 (EDT) In fact this is not an enhancement, it's a hack. The browse homepage should be made configurable (perhaps via gconf) and have a sensible default. In fact, you should do some research before you hack an app to pieces: this customisation is already possible and designed-for...see http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/browse/mainline/tree/webactivity.py#n354 and http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/browse/mainline/tree/webactivity.py#n162. The desired homepage should go in /usr/share/library-common/index.html . Please can we do some research before we flail about doing stuff. Sorry about the language but I don't have time to say this more nicely.

Scope

  1. Revise the browse start new screen for Soas
  2. (optionally) Edit the Browse activity to point to default-bookmarks.html or some other file specified by fedora

UI Design

Does the feature have a direct impact on the work flow, or does it need a UI? Link here mockups, or add detailed descriptions.

How To Test

Prototype start-page:http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/index14.html REVISED 06/19/2010

User Experience

If this feature is noticeable by its target audience, how will their experiences change as a result? Describe what they will see or notice.

Dependencies

What other packages (RPMs) depend on this package? Are there changes outside the developers' control on which completion of this feature depends? In other words, does your feature depend on completion of another feature owned by someone else or that you would need to coordinate, which might cause you to be unable to finish on time? Other upstream projects like Python?

Contingency Plan

Alternate path:

Documentation

Is there upstream documentation on this feature, or notes you have written yourself? Has this topic been discussed in the mailing list or during a meeting? Link to that material here so other interested developers can get involved.

Release Notes

The Sugar Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. An Example is 0.84/Notes. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.

Comments and Discussion

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