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==Sugar UI==

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* Views: Neighborhood, Friends, Home, current Activity

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* Frame: Activities on top; Friends on the right; hardware on the bottom; open documents on the left.

* [[The undiscoverable/Collaboration|Collaboration]]

* Hover menu unfolding: If you point at an icon and wait a second, its name appears; if you wait longer, a menu appears.

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* Right click on an icon to bring up a menu.

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* Right click on an icon to bring up a menu, which is the same as the hover menu.

* 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.

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* Screen capture is an important use case for the Keep button. How do we store just the image, without the software state?

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* Screen capture is 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.

* View source?: Not fully implemented

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* Copy and paste between activities? (No)

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* Copy and paste between activities? (Sometimes)

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* How to quit an activity: Click the stop icon on the Activities tab.

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* How to quit an activity: Click the stop-sign icon on the Activities tab.

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

* [[The undiscoverable/Change UI language|Change UI language]]

* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Font_considerations Fonts]: By default, only a few writing systems are [[The undiscoverable/Installed Font Coverage|covered]]. You need to use

yum search -- -fonts

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in Terminal to find [[The undiscoverable/Available Fonts|available ~~fonts~~]], and

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in Terminal to find [[The undiscoverable/Available Fonts|available font packages]], and

yum install ''name''-font

to install a font package.

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* Start an Activity without resuming last session: Select Start from ~~right-click~~ menu.

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* Start an Activity without resuming last session: Select Start from hover menu.

* Community Jabber servers (Listings and how to change):

** [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers OLPC community Jabber servers]

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