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* Wireless mesh channels and access points
* Wireless mesh channels and access points
==Icon colors and user names==
===Icon colors and user names===
:Personalized icons? Drawings? Pictures? How can kids make their own icon? It's a surprisingly big thing to est. an iconic identity for many... just look at forums where kids(and adults!) hang out.--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:13, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
:Personalized icons? Drawings? Pictures? How can kids make their own icon? It's a surprisingly big thing to est. an iconic identity for many... just look at forums where kids(and adults!) hang out.--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:13, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
==Search wireless connections and people by name==
===Search wireless connections and people by name===
In the Neighborhood and Friends views, use the search bar.
Easier to find your friend if you recognize their icon. --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Easier to find your friend if you recognize their icon. --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
==Right-click/hover menus==
===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.
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.
::Nice if view source was there too. --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
::Nice if view source was there too. --[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
==Activities==
===Views===
In home view (hotkey F3), 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!
In Home View (hotkey F3), 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)
::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.
:::One of many reasons not to use computer labs, but to go with one-to-one computing.
===Frame===
Can be activated by putting the mouse cursor in a corner of the screen (default) or on an edge (option in My Settings)
* Views and Activities on top
* Friends on the right
* Hardware on the bottom
* Open documents on the left.
===[[The Undiscoverable/Collaboration|Collaboration]]===
===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.
===Downloading and installing activities===
===Downloading and installing activities===
:What's the hotkey to view source? Is there a hotkey to view the log for that specific acitivity?--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:10, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
:What's the hotkey to view source? Is there a hotkey to view the log for that specific acitivity?--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 16:10, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
===Copy and paste between activities?===
Sometimes
===How to quit an activity===
===How to quit an activity===
* Start an Activity without resuming last session: Select Start from hover menu.
* Start an Activity without resuming last session: Select Start from hover menu.
===Activities are located in 2 places===
1-) in /usr/share/sugar/activities
1-) in /usr/share/sugar/activities
:or
:or
* [[Community Jabber servers|local display of the OLPC Community Jabber servers]]
* [[Community Jabber servers|local display of the OLPC Community Jabber servers]]
* see Terminal listing below for how to change
* See Terminal listing below for how to change
* Can also be changed in My Settings
==Icons==
===Icons===
Although there is no such thing as an intuitive icon, it is sometimes possible to use icons that relate to experience, and it is generally possible to make icons mnemonic, so that they don't have to be explained more than once. Note that the common icon for saving a file in GUIS for Linux, Mac, and Windows is the obsolete floppy disk. A billion people have learned it, and now have to relearn its replacements. We have started over in Sugar.
Although there is no such thing as an intuitive icon, it is sometimes possible to use icons that relate to experience, and it is generally possible to make icons mnemonic, so that they don't have to be explained more than once. Note that the common icon for saving a file in GUIS for Linux, Mac, and Windows is the obsolete floppy disk. A billion people have learned it, and now have to relearn its replacements. We have started over in Sugar.
* InfoSlicer
* InfoSlicer
==Journal==
===Journal===
* The default text in each entry is the name of the Activity used to create it, or the name of a downloaded file. Users can edit this text to provide a meaningful title. The Description does not display in the main Journal view. Renamed sessions saved in the Journal show up on the right-click/hover menu for that Activity's icon in the Home view.
* The default text in each entry is the name of the Activity used to create it, or the name of a downloaded file. Users can edit this text to provide a meaningful title. The Description does not display in the main Journal view. Renamed sessions saved in the Journal show up on the right-click/hover menu for that Activity's icon in the Home view.
* Resume session: Left-click a Journal entry to start where you left off the last time. Right-click to get the list of Activities that can open this file. Save in Record, open in Paint, for example.
* Resume session: Left-click a Journal entry to start where you left off the last time. Right-click to get the list of Activities that can open this file. Save in Record, open in Paint, for example.
* Install Activities: Cannot install .xo over yum package. Delete Activity from /usr/share/sugar/activities, then download .xo from [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Activities repository]. Where is the result installed?
* Install Activities: Cannot install .xo over yum package. Delete Activity from /usr/share/sugar/activities, then download .xo from [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Activities repository] to Journal using Browse.
:Other browsers such as Firefox save to the Linux file system, not to the Journal. Copy to a USB stick using Terminal, then from there to the Journal.
:Starting a downloaded activity in the Journal automatically installs it first.
* Copy to and from USB stick: Drag Journal entries to USB icon.
* Copy to and from USB stick: Drag Journal entries to USB icon.
* When you download an image, it doesn't have a preview. Open it and close it immediately to generate one. [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1106 Ticket #1106]
* When you download an image, it doesn't have a preview. Open it and close it immediately to generate one. [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1106 Ticket #1106]
===Saving Work===
===Saving Work===
* What version of this activity am I running? The list view in Home gives the number.
* What version of this activity am I running? The list view in Home gives the number.
* Add and Remove Favorites. WARNING: Erase is '''not''' Remove Favorite.
* Add and Remove Favorites. '''WARNING''': Erase is '''not''' Remove Favorite.
===[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get xo-get]===
===[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get xo-get]===
* When unformatted text is selected the Style menu appears with only one item visible: None. Unless the user notices the little up arrowhead and moves the cursor up to reveal the rest of the menu, Styles remain a mystery.
* When unformatted text is selected the Style menu appears with only one item visible: None. Unless the user notices the little up arrowhead and moves the cursor up to reveal the rest of the menu, Styles remain a mystery.
** Styles is what separates an effective user of a desktop editing program from the casual user. Anybody having to write something longer than 1/2 a page NEEDS to become an effective user. Essential for high school work, college, any professional document. The default of most software is NOT to focus on styles, thus children and all ages learn setting fonts, sizes, bold, etc, and thus learn wrong. Write is no exception. People who learn wrong need to unlearn before they are able to learn it right. It would be much better to give people the chance to learn things right from the get-go.[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 23:52, 9 April 2011 (EDT)
** Styles is what separates an effective user of a desktop editing program from the casual user. Anybody having to write something longer than 1/2 a page NEEDS to become an effective user. Essential for high school work, college, any professional document. The default of most software is NOT to focus on styles, thus children and all ages learn setting fonts, sizes, bold, etc, and thus learn wrong. Write is no exception. People who learn wrong need to unlearn before they are able to learn it right. It would be much better to give people the chance to learn things right from the get-go.[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 23:52, 9 April 2011 (EDT)
* When text is selected, and the color palette opened, clicking outside the palette window dismisses the palette. Not a problem so far. However, if the user clicks in the edit window, the previously selected text is deselected and no color applied. Clicking anywhere on the toolbar applies the color and leaves the text selected. It has been suggested in [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg08918.html mailing list thread] that adding 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons, as in the color palette in Paint, would solve this problem.
* When text is selected, and the color palette opened, clicking outside the palette window dismisses the palette. Not a problem so far. However, if the user clicks in the edit window, the previously selected text is deselected and no color applied. Clicking anywhere on the toolbar applies the color and leaves the text selected. It has been suggested in [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg08918.html mailing list thread] that adding 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons, as in the color palette in Paint, would solve this problem.
===[[The Undiscoverable/Calculate|Calculate]]===
===[[The Undiscoverable/Calculate|Calculate]]===
* Help
Type help or help() to get directions for getting Help on specific topics: Help(topic)
* Graphing
* Graphing
* Help
help(plot)
:plot(eqn, var=-a..b), plot the equation 'eqn' with the variable 'var' in the range from -a to b.
For example,
plot(x**2,x=-3..3)
===Measure===
===Measure===
* Frequency and amplitude settings
* Frequency domain and amplitude (time domain) settings
===Library===
===Library===
* Keyboard sends screen the "erase" key as the ascii code NULL (back erase) and sees "fn+erase" as code DEL (forward erase).
* Keyboard sends screen the "erase" key as the ascii code NULL (back erase) and sees "fn+erase" as code DEL (forward erase).
====Open Firmware====
===XO-1.5===
Any issues?
===XO-1.75===
===XO-2===
Does not exist. The prototype was a clamshell design with two touch screens.
===XO-3===
In design, as a multi-touch tablet with an ARM processor. C. Scott Annanian is in charge of development.
===XS School Server===
Status?
==Open Firmware==
This is presently only relevant to OLPC XO hardware, which uses Open Firmware instead of a BIOS.
This is presently only relevant to OLPC XO hardware, which uses Open Firmware instead of a BIOS.
* Identify the hardware and software, including the versions used.
* Identify the hardware and software, including the versions used.
* For the undiscoverable, describe the person who could not make the discovery (age, education, language...)
* For the Undiscoverable, describe the person who could not make the discovery (age, education, language...)
* State what you did.
* State what you did.
* State what you expected to happen.
* State what you expected to happen.
* What did you try to fix the problem?
* What did you try to fix the problem?
[http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Bug Tracker]
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