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Features/Introduction Tutorial (view source)
Revision as of 16:36, 13 March 2010
, 16:36, 13 March 2010→Detailed Description
== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==
''Expand on the summary, if appropriate. A couple of sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better.''
''Expand on the summary, if appropriate. A couple of sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better.''
The proposal consists in providing a default interactive tutorial for Sugar that will give an overview of the particularities of the Sugar interface and activities. This tutorial should be accessible from the first login screen, right after the color selection, and from the option menu:
<img src="http://tutorius.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/login1-300x226.png" alt="login" title="login" width="300" height="226" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-241" />
<img src="http://tutorius.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/options-300x225.png" alt="options" title="options" width="300" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-231" />
The tutorial will provide an overview of the Desktop, the Group and the Neighborhood Views as well as the Frame, the Journal, the Write and the Browse activity. Here are screenshots of what it might look like for some of them.
<img src="http://tutorius.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/desktop-300x214.png" alt="desktop" title="desktop" width="300" height="214" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-227" />
<img src="http://tutorius.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/neighborhood-300x214.png" alt="neighborhood" title="neighborhood" width="300" height="214" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-230" />
<img src="http://tutorius.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/journal-300x216.png" alt="journal" title="journal" width="300" height="216" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-228" />
<img src="http://tutorius.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/write-300x216.png" alt="write" title="write" width="300" height="216" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-232" />
The information presented to the user will be essentially composed of bubble messages pointing at screen elements. Progress through the tutorial will be accomplished by the user clicking a next button at the bottom of the screen. Once the tutorial is over, the user will be brought back to the Desktop screen where she will be able to resume interacting with the system normally.
The tutorial should be stored in the user home directory, alongside any activity data, as an XML file representing the execution states of the tutorial.
Translation of the tutorial should be made using the gettext convention by storing translations of the tutorial strings along side the XML file using the gettext schema (.po, .pot, .mo files).
The tutorial should be independent of the screen resolution.
On top of that, the tutorial should be designed to be robust against unscripted actions made by the user. It means that if the user clicks on any button while the tutorial is showing the different elements of the interface, the tutorial should never become out-of-sync with the state of the interface in a way that cannot be resolved by the user. The examples given previously simply rely on the user pressing the next button when she is ready to move on, therefore issues about the exact state of the interface should be avoided.
For the 0.90 release, the tutorial won't be user modifiable other than by modifying the XML format by hand, which won't be recommended.
== Benefit to Sugar ==
== Benefit to Sugar ==