On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 22:14, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Tomeu, > > Thanks for the encouragement. I've been working on this a little each day > and it's starting to look less like a rigged demo and more like a really > useful Activity. I may have something good enough to criticize in a week or > two. When I do I'll post it to the Activities site. > > Unfortunately, while Gutenberg uses a consistent file naming convention for > *most* of its content, there are still a fair number of older texts that use > a naming convention that does not lend itself to automatic downloading. For > the time being these books won't be available for downloading from my > offline catalog search (nothing to stop anyone from getting them from the > website, though). Also, I plan to make the Activity have some Help text > loaded into it when you start it up from the Activity ring. Of course this > text would be in English. I'd like to have versions of the text loaded > based on the locale, but I don't know how to do that in Python. Pootle, > etc. doesn't support that kind of thing.
Ok, I look forward to see what that looks like and I'm sure we can find a way to localize it. > I'm thinking also of modifying View Slides so it can create slideshows as > well as view them. I'd write something that would let you select images in > the Journal and let you add them to the Zip file, resequence them, and view > them. Maybe let you use the XO camera too. Sounds great, what I would like to do is to add buttons to the objectchooser for taking a photo, record a video clip and record audio to the object chooser, so all activities using the object chooser can also get those media from the input devices. > The "growing one step at a time" is a necessity considering how little time > I have to do this kind of work. I think it's important not only because of our limited resources, but also because it allows for a more efficient feedback loop. We have many options open and is often hard to decide which way to go. Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> I think this an awesome idea and that this attitude of growing one >> step at a time will lead Sugar to a consistent growth. I'm anxious to >> hear how people use your software and which improvements are proposed. >> >> I will love to help give your software to .uy for testing and feedback. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
