The Undiscoverable: Difference between revisions

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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.

* 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.

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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.

* 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.

* View source?: Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications.

===View source?===

Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications.

What's the hotkey to view source?

* Copy and paste between activities? (Sometimes)

* 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.

Not all activities respond to the 'stop-sign'. How do users kill _that_ activity?

* [[The undiscoverable/Change keyboard|Change keyboard]]

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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.
-* 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.
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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.
-* 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.
-* View source?: Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications.
+===View source?===
+Not fully implemented. On the menu in several applications.
+What's the hotkey to view source?
 * Copy and paste between activities? (Sometimes)
-* 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.
+Not all activities respond to the 'stop-sign'. How do users kill _that_ activity?
 * [[The undiscoverable/Change keyboard|Change keyboard]]