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===[[The Undiscoverable/Collaboration|Collaboration]]===
===[[The Undiscoverable/Collaboration|Collaboration]]===
===Keep button===
===Keep button and Saving work===
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. See [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal#The_Notion_of_.22Keeping.22| The Notion of "Keeping"]] in the Sugar Human Interface Guidelines.
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. See [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal#The_Notion_of_.22Keeping.22| The Notion of "Keeping"]] in the Sugar Human Interface Guidelines.
====Saving Work====
Basically, we need a Save as... functionality, not just a Save that overwrites the previous version and a clumsy Save on Exit where you have to go roundabout to start up again. All of this should be bugged as a Feature Request.
<pre>On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline@solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares with
> each side being a different multiplication problem that had the same answer.
> http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H
>
> We also had them reflect in their Journals about what they did.
> All of this went well.
>
> What was horrible was trying to get the right point in the project saved to
> the Journal and then navigating to the correct place to write.
> The solution I suggest is when you click the Keep button (Journal Icon) from
> an activity that the Journal reflection dialog box appears.
> Here are the problems we had.
>
> Hard to get to the Journal, no easy F# short cut.
> Hard to find the little arrow that gets you to where you can write.
> Especially since if the Frame is active, which it has to be to get to the
> Journal, the little bitty arrow you need to click is covered.
> When students did their assigned task they were eager to go back to
> exploring with Sugar and wrote over their work without it being saved, or
> using the same name as the assigned activity. This was probably the worst
> outcome because then it was like they hadn't done the assignment, they had
> nothing to show for their work and we'll want to use it later for a
> portfolio.
>
> clicking the Activity Tab to write down the name is a PITA (this one is
> fixed in .88 I think).
>
> After they reflected they wanted to immediately go back to exploring in TA
> and we had to stop them, make them change the name again. They were very
> perplexed by this because they didn't know what to name their new file
> because they hadn't done anything yet.
>
> The word "Description" is not very friendly. I like "What did you do?"
> Walter wants to expand it even further, I'm not sure about that, its pretty
> challenging for the students to type so I'm not sure we want more boxes.
> Confusion between the Keep button and the samples and the snapshot icons.
> No feedback when you click Keep so there is a tendency to click it
> repeatedly.
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===Downloading and installing activities===
===Downloading and installing activities===
* Now a smaller Xephyr window will launch
* Now a smaller Xephyr window will launch
** 832x624 matches the XO display proportions (Pages in Browse will mimic the layout of those on an XO.)
** 832x624 matches the XO display proportions (Pages in Browse will mimic the layout of those on an XO.)
===Keyboard shortcuts===
* [[olpc:Keyboard shortcuts]]
===Localization===
===Localization===
* 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]
==Activities==
==Activities==