Re: [Sugar-devel] [Alpha release] DevTutor activity

2010-11-08 Thread Manusheel Gupta
James and Mikus,

Thanks for the feedback.

We are at a very initial stage for realizing how we can provide a better
understanding to developers about Sugar API through Devtutor activity. Focus
is on having a activity that would facilitate and expedite the process of
learning. Description is missing in the alpha version, and more modules need
to be added for demonstrative learning.

It would be great if you could share your feedback on what you think about
this idea, and how you would like to see it being realized to its full
potential.


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:08 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:


 I just ran it on my XO laptop with runs the .84 release for Paraguay.
 Your Activity requires the new style toolbars, which .84 does not
 support.  I realize that the purpose of your Activity is to
 demonstrate the use of Sugar API's, so full backward compatibility
 with graceful degradation may be unrealistic.  However, supporting
 both new and old toolbars is not that difficult.  I describe a
 workable method in Make Your Own Sugar Activities!  Judging from the
 screenshots most of the API's you're demonstrating haven't changed
 much, so maybe you could implement at least part of functionality in
 .84, which might be the newest thing out in the field.



Sure. We'll have the support for both old and new toolbars in the next
version.



 I'll try out your Activity at home in my dev environment and let you
 know what I think.  It sound pretty neat!


Thank you. At this juncture, we ourselves are not very confident on whether
the activity design serves the purpose of what we are aiming at. We did an
alpha release to get a better perspective of the field requirements.




 Terrific job on the icon, by the way.


Great. Glad you like it.

Regards,

Manu




 James Simmons


 On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote:
  Dear all,
  I am delighted to announce the alpha release of the DevTutor activity
  focused on understanding the Sugar API modules.
  Please visit - http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4353
  Many thanks to Kandarp Kaushik for his dedication and consistency during
 all
  the stages of the development; Ayush Goyal for designing the svg icon of
 the
  activity and Aleksey Lim for his continued guidance to the team.
  We look forward to hearing your feedback and experience with DevTutor
  activity. If you would like to put in a feature request, please do so at
  http://bugs.sugarlabs.org.
  Hope you find the activity useful.
  Regards,
  Manu
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [Alpha release] DevTutor activity

2010-11-08 Thread James Simmons
Manu,

I just ran it on my XO laptop with runs the .84 release for Paraguay.
Your Activity requires the new style toolbars, which .84 does not
support.  I realize that the purpose of your Activity is to
demonstrate the use of Sugar API's, so full backward compatibility
with graceful degradation may be unrealistic.  However, supporting
both new and old toolbars is not that difficult.  I describe a
workable method in Make Your Own Sugar Activities!  Judging from the
screenshots most of the API's you're demonstrating haven't changed
much, so maybe you could implement at least part of functionality in
.84, which might be the newest thing out in the field.

I'll try out your Activity at home in my dev environment and let you
know what I think.  It sound pretty neat!

Terrific job on the icon, by the way.

James Simmons


On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote:
 Dear all,
 I am delighted to announce the alpha release of the DevTutor activity
 focused on understanding the Sugar API modules.
 Please visit - http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4353
 Many thanks to Kandarp Kaushik for his dedication and consistency during all
 the stages of the development; Ayush Goyal for designing the svg icon of the
 activity and Aleksey Lim for his continued guidance to the team.
 We look forward to hearing your feedback and experience with DevTutor
 activity. If you would like to put in a feature request, please do so at
 http://bugs.sugarlabs.org.
 Hope you find the activity useful.
 Regards,
 Manu
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