On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 00:56, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 Jan 2010, at 23:11, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> Hi Caryl, >> >> On 4 Jan 2010, at 19:33, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> >>> Hi Gary, (a fellow Mac person... yea!) >>> >>> I really want to do the Live CD rather than the USB version of SoaS... due >>> to the difference in cost. I can take them 20 CDs for what one usb stick >>> would cost! >>> >>> Can I just do it with a live CD? The usb would be just for storing work >>> and they can get their own. >> >> You can certainly burn the Blueberry SoaS .iso onto a CD and boot from and >> use it (just use DiskUtility on the Mac). It will obviously forget >> everything once you reboot, though there's nothing stopping you from copying >> some of your work over to a USB stick before you reboot – not a very good >> workflow, and misses the whole 'Journal auto keeps your work for you' >> concept. You will also likely run into some issues as metadata related to a >> journal entry is no longer stored once you copy an entry onto a USB. This is >> great for interoperability with other operating systems (e.g. draw a PNG >> with paint or use Write to generate an .odt file, other OS's can edit the >> files just fine), but it can be a problem for many activities** without >> correct MIME and file extensions defined correctly as Sugar no longer >> recognises the file type at a later date. >> >> ** i.e. even my own Labyrinth work seems to fail on this test, even though I >> spent quite some time setting up a valid MIME type and file extension and >> custom svg icon; the file extension seems to go missing once an entry is >> transferred to a USB stick and haven't sussed that issue out yet :-( Walter >> seems to have Turtle Art working now, so I should go poke through his code >> to see what I am missing. > > Ooops, I must still be recovering from holiday cheer. Physics was the > activity all set up and working with MIME and extensions; I remember now, > I've held off doing the work on Labyrinth as folks don't seem to like > Labyrinth as the activity name. I'm dragging my heels as it seems a waste of > time and IMO could cause more confusion that it's worth (and a name change is > not trivial, it's referenced all over the place and will need > re-translating), but if there is consensus on a new name... the suggestions > so far were: > > Think > Connect > Conceive > Conceptualise > Organise > Map > Envision > Brainstorm > Outline > > If there's no agreement or the community decides Labyrinth is not such a bad > name, all things considered ;-) I'll stick with it and add a matching MIME > type and file extension for the next release.
During my stay in Uruguay, I heard more than once that Labyrinth's name gets confused with Maze's (Laberinto). These two activities are very popular there. Regards, Tomeu > Regards, > --Gary > >> Sugar Journal workflow to/from USB has taken quite a usability hit since >> 0.84, though it is _much_ more reliable as long as you are using standard >> file formats (i.e great for cross-platform interoperability). Perhaps >> Journal metadata could be stored a some type of .sugar_metadata directory or >> file for each entry? This might not be elegant to some, but it's how most >> other OSs have dealt with extra metadata content. >> >> Regards, >> --Gary >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
