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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. | + | * 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! |
− | | + | ::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.
| + | ===Screen capture=== |
− | *: <Alt> 1 captures the screen and stores a screenshot in the Journal. | + | 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. |
| + | *: <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.
| + | ===View source?=== |
| + | Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications. |
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| + | What's the hotkey to view source? |
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| * 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.
| + | ===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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| + | Not all activities respond to the 'stop-sign'. How do users kill _that_ activity? |
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| * [[The undiscoverable/Change keyboard|Change keyboard]] | | * [[The undiscoverable/Change keyboard|Change keyboard]] |