Seth Woodworth wrote: > If not for Rainbow I think that the help activity and the browser could > access the same material.
?? I can visit file:///home/olpc/Activities/Help.activity/help/XO_Introduction.html fine in Browse in 8.2.1. (Does having a developer key affect Rainbow file access restrictions?) On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Yama Ploskonka <y...@netoso.com> responded: > <snip> >> >> The point of having the Help activity as its own icon was to put it as >> close and easy to the user as possible. ... > > As is now, an inconspicuous icon among many, low usability score. I think a prominent help icon and "Need help?" text on Browse's start page would be far more discoverable than a (?) among many, but I live in the browser. The OLPC 8.2.1 start page is http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/tree/library-common/layout.tmpl Code rebuilds the nifty expanding Library of local content whenever you install content, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library , this could also detect installation of local help. The SugarLabs start page is http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/blobs/master/data/index.html Sugar distributions lack the expanding Library (SL ticket 574) but maybe that's moot if http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library comes to fruition. You can determine in JavaScript if there's a local help manual in the file system or not and create a link to it accordingly; seems-to-work code is at http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/show_help.html Seth: > I really really really owe the Sugar community a long email documenting > what the heck went on with the Help activity last year http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FLOSSManuals has a section ready and waiting ;-) Cheers, -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel