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* Collaboration
* Collaboration
* Hover menu unfolding
* Hover menu unfolding: If you point at an icon and wait a second, its name appears; if you wait longer, a menu appears.
* Right click
* Right click on an icon to bring up a menu
* Use of Keep button
* Use of Keep button Keep places a checkpoint of the current state of your application in the Journal. Users do not agree on why and when to use it.
* View source?
* View source? Not fully implemented
* Copy and paste between activities? (No)
* Copy and paste between activities? (No)
* How to quit an activity
* How to quit an activity: Click the stop icon on the Activities tab.
* [[Change keyboard]]
* [[Change keyboard]]
* [[Change UI language]]
* [[Change UI language]]
* Fonts
* Fonts: By default, only a few writing systems are covered.
* Start an Activity without resuming last session: Select Start from right-click menu.
* Start an Activity without resuming last session: Select Start from right-click menu.


==Journal==
==Journal==


* Search Alt-F; searches examine Title and Tag texts
* Searches examine Title and Tag texts
* Tag
* Tag Poor man's database
* Resume session
* Resume session Click on a Journal entry to start where you left off.
* Install Activities
* Install Activities
* Copy to USB stick
* Copy to USB stick Drag Journal entries to USB icon


==Activities==
==Activities==


===xo-get===
===[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get xo-get]===
 
The xo-get script and Activity access a repository of Activities for installation and updates.


* Script
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get#Installation_of_xo-get Script] [http://xo-get.olpc.at/xo-get.py Download]
* Activity
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get#Installation_of_xo-get_GUI Activity]


===Terminal===
===Terminal===


* The entire [[The undiscoverable/Command line|command line]] repertoire
* The entire [[The undiscoverable/Command line|command line]] repertoire
* Linux file system
* Linux file system: /, ., .., cd, pwd, mkdir, rmdir, cat, touch, rm, mount, umount
* Standard IO
* Standard IO >, >>, <, |
* Users and groups
* Users and groups root, /home, su, sudo, /etc/sudoers, sudoedit, visudo
* Permissions
* Permissions drwxrwxrwx ugoa
* Regular expressions
* Regular expressions [0-9][a-zA-Z]?
* File globbing
* File globbing *
* copy-from-journal copy-to-journal
* copy-from-journal copy-to-journal Journal entries are in ~/.sugar/default/datastore. Each entry has metadata directory.


===Etoys===
===Etoys===
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* You can add your own programs
* You can add your own programs
* You can import libraries
* You can import libraries
* Python is a large programming language. How do I learn it? This Activity, along with others needs a Help feature.
* Python is a large programming language. How do I learn it?


===Turtle Art===
===Turtle Art===


* Color space
* Color space: The image below shows the colors that the Turtle draws for inputs in the range 0-399. The range repeats after 200.
[[File:TA_Colors.png]]
* Programmable tiles (proposed tool tips will aid discoverability)
* Programmable tiles (proposed tool tips will aid discoverability)
* tamyblock.py        (")
* tamyblock.py        (")