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==Sugar UI==
 
==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]]
 
* [[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.
 
* 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 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.
 
* 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.
* 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
 
* View source?: Not fully implemented
* Copy and paste between activities? (No)
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* Copy and paste between activities? (Sometimes)
* 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 keyboard|Change keyboard]]
 
* [[The undiscoverable/Change UI language|Change UI language]]
 
* [[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
 
* [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
 
  yum search -- -fonts
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
 
  yum install ''name''-font
 
to install a font package.
 
to install a font package.
* 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):
 
* Community Jabber servers (Listings and how to change):
 
** [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers OLPC community Jabber servers]
 
** [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers OLPC community Jabber servers]
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