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* Right-click/hover menus: Point to an icon and wait a second for its name to appear. Wait a bit longer for the accompanying menu to appear. Or, without having to wait, just right-click (o-button on an XO) to see the name and menu.
 
* Right-click/hover menus: Point to an icon and wait a second for its name to appear. Wait a bit longer for the accompanying menu to appear. Or, without having to wait, just right-click (o-button on an XO) to see the name and menu.
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* Activities: In home view, there are buttons to switch between the view of favorites in a ring and a list of all installed Activities. Select the star by an Activity to make it a Favorite. The hover menu for a Favorite includes the option to remove it from favorites without deleting it, and also an Erase option.
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* Activities: In home view, there are buttons to switch between the view of favorites in a ring and a list of all installed Activities. Select the star by an Activity to make it a Favorite. The hover menu for a Favorite includes the option to remove it from favorites without deleting it, and also an Erase option which deletes that activity!
 
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::For a school admin trying to keep machines uniform for the next wave of kids to descend upon the computer lab the erase key can pose problems, right? --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 
* Frame: Views and Activities on top; Friends on the right; hardware on the bottom; open documents on the left.
 
* Frame: Views and Activities on top; Friends on the right; hardware on the bottom; open documents on the left.
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* Use of Keep button: Keep places a checkpoint of the current state of your application in the Journal, including a screen shot, Activity state, and metadata. The user can rename the session from the name of the Activity to something specific to the session, and add a description and tags. Users do not agree on why and when to use Keep.
 
* Use of Keep button: Keep places a checkpoint of the current state of your application in the Journal, including a screen shot, Activity state, and metadata. The user can rename the session from the name of the Activity to something specific to the session, and add a description and tags. Users do not agree on why and when to use Keep.
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* Screen capture: An important use case for the Keep button. How do we store just the image, without the software state? Some Activities, including Turtle Art, have a button for this purpose.  
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===Screen capture===
*: <Alt> 1 captures the screen and stores a screenshot in the Journal.  
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An important use case for the Keep button. How do we store just the image, without the software state? Some Activities, including Turtle Art, have a button for this purpose.  
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*: <Alt> + 1 captures the screen and stores a screenshot in the Journal.  
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* View source?: Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications.
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===View source?===
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Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications.
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What's the hotkey to view source?
    
* Copy and paste between activities? (Sometimes)
 
* Copy and paste between activities? (Sometimes)
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* How to quit an activity: ''Most'' activities have a "stop-sign" icon under the Activity Tab on the toolbar at the top of the screen. (GCompris activities have a "exit-door" icon in the toolbar on the bottom of the screen. Some other activities may have a quit menu item.) ''Every'' activity has Stop in the hover menu associated with the Activity icon in the Frame.
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===How to quit an activity===
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''Most'' activities have a "stop-sign" icon under the Activity Tab on the toolbar at the top of the screen. (GCompris activities have a "exit-door" icon in the toolbar on the bottom of the screen. Some other activities may have a quit menu item.) ''Every'' activity has Stop in the hover menu associated with the Activity icon in the Frame.
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Not all activities respond to the 'stop-sign'. How do users kill _that_ activity?
    
* [[The undiscoverable/Change keyboard|Change keyboard]]
 
* [[The undiscoverable/Change keyboard|Change keyboard]]

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