Sugar Network/Tutorial

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- Updated Aug 18, 2012

Sugar Network annotated screenshots

Info and How to install Sugar Network (SN)

Main Wiki Page Sugar Network

How to install on XO-1 and XO-1.5

Tested on XO-1.5

To Upgrade XO-1.5 to SN 0.5 software:

terminal
su
yum update

SN is only available on Factory
Test View of latest SN (0.5) Look at a preview of the latest changes to the SN interface.
advanced View of Activites with Hub Interface

Harmonic Distribution

Sweets Distribution#Installation

Sweets Distribution/Manual Installation

Sweets Distribution/Testing With instuctions on updating sweets-distribution

Sugar Network Activities Listing of On-Line SN Activities by page

If you are new to Sugar, see this visual introduction to the Sugar Interface.

Check for Updates Often

Maybe even daily; as SN is a rapidly being developed.

Caution Do Not Use My Settings/Software update

As you may download Activity updates that are not compatable with SN

Alternate Method for Activity Installation

Note: This will correct for loss of the activity if Cresent ("Moon") and ("star") icons are uncolored by mistake *.

* Doing this will erase the activity and an Activity.xo downloaded from sugar-browse will not start in SN-Factory

Running Ubuntu 11.04 (Trisquel 5.5)

Download new Activity.xo file from ASLO to the desktop - with SN not running
Or Copy the Activity.xo from a CD/DVD or USB to the desktop
Extract the .xo file with "Archive Manager" to Activities from the desktop
New activity will be on inside end of (f3) Home View activity spiral

And will appear when the Circle with 3 circles inside Icon on left end of SN Top bar is not colored - Offline Mode

Upgrading Sugar-Network

Ubuntu (Trisquel 5.5)

sudo su
password
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
sweets-distribution status
sweets-distribution sync

Home view for Sugar Network (F3 key)

Home view

Hover over central XO avatar to get drop-down menu

Sweets Distribution in "My Settings"

Sweets Distribution

Click on Sweets Distribution Icon

(Currently a grey circle as Sweets-Distribution Icon has not been approved)

Check [x]Sugar Network Integration
Reboot Computer after selecting Sugar Network Integration

You may be unable to Connect to Activites if you do not

Screen in Ubuntu (Trisquel 5.5)

(Sweets-distribution 11.04 Factory)

Screen in XO-1.5 1

(Hexokinase Factory Sugar 0.94.1

Restart XO-1.5 after yum update if updating to SN-0.5
Check [x] Sweets-Desktop is Default Sugar-Session
Check [x] Sugar Network Integration

Internet_Proxy

New

Modem_Configuration

for 3G Modems

Neighborhood view for Sugar Network (F1 key)

Neighborhood view can also be accessed from the far left icon on the Sugar Frame (see next screenshot).
Note many more XO avatars than are present on jabber.sugarlabs.org

Grey (no color) XO avatars seem to have incomplete information on the server.

Access Activities with SN button on Frame

Move the mouse pointer to a corner of the screen/window to activate the Frame. Wait a couple of seconds for it to appear.
Click on the SN button to access SN Activities.

The F8 key is an alternate way to access SN Activities.

SN Activities

There are 2 sets of Activities available:

Off-line Mode (see Below)

Locally stored Activities

On-Line Mode (see Below)

Downloaded from the Internet

OFF Line mode

Left SN Icon on top bar not colored (Circle with 3 smaller circles inside of it)
Screen 1 of 16 pages, (92 Activities)
Clicking on the Activity Icon will start it.
Note extra buttons that appear when cursor is over activity:

 (?)               questions            (Box with Tail)      review
 (Lightning bolt)  ideas                ( 0 )                (future use not working)
 (!)               problems             (Horizontal Grid)    View All Resources

Use them to report, or ask questions, about the on activity's behaviour.

This will only happen when SN is On line Mode.

Off-line reports are disabled

ON Line mode

When Selected the left SN Icon is Colored ( Circle with 3 smaller circles inside)
Screen 1 of 11 pages, (66 Activities)

The pointer is on the Selection Drop-Down Menu

Note: Clicking on the "(" moon icon will copy the remote Activity bundle to the local system, thus it will be accessible from the Home view. If the 'star' icon is set, it will appear in the Favorites view of Home. Deselect "(" moon icon to remove it from the local system; unset the 'star' icon to remove it from the Favorites view.

Browse Resources

Selected from the (Horizontal Grid) icon on the top bar

Cursor is pointing to it

The icons on the right side of the top grey bar are used to filter the view of the resources by clicking the icons:

 (?)                questions
 (Lightning bolt)   ideas              
 (!)                problems 
 (Box with Tail)    review
 ( 0 )              (future use not working)
 (Horizontal Grid)  ALL

Click on the top bar Icon with Grid to return to Activities Screen

Notes

Note: Enter the name of the Activity you want in the Search box (_______) on the tool bar of page to find it quickly

For Details on Search - It can be Complex --"walter"

Object model for the Sugar Network API - File:Sugar-Network-diagram.png

ALSO SEE - Reference: Listing and start pages for Sugar Network Activities