Re: OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
You don't need a person to keep the community in the loop if the community fora (as opposed to the water cooler and the hallway) are *religiously* maintained as being the loop. -- John. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:29 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/22/08, John R. Hogerhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need a person to keep the community in the loop if the community fora (as opposed to the water cooler and the hallway) are *religiously* maintained

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-17 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu writes: Yeah, its probably #1. Boot up times become moot if children simply rely on suspend and resume with topping up the battery whenever possible. Its the actual performance of the environment that really matters. I would say both are important in a

Re: Frame Decision (was [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-17 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:26 AM, John R. Hogerhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. My other /suspicion/ (could be completely wrong, I admit!) is that it's frequently bumped in passing. That is, the cursor briefly

Re: Frame Decision (was [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-17 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Do the 'frame reveal corner arrows' only appear when you hit the corners, or when your mouse is over the corner area (discoverability)? What is the difference between hit the corner/over the corner area? What I was

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

2008-05-16 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Denver Gingerich denver at ossguy.com writes: I've never seen one of these holier than thou e-mails you mention. It certainly doesn't seem to be like any of the staff I've communicated with to do such a thing. Sorry, but this impression on users (and I share it too) is inevitable. The

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view -- followup

2008-05-16 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Robert Myers rmyers7 at mindspring.com writes: I just saw the Microsoft video of an XO running XP. In it the XO single boots from an 'insyde' BIOS. The MS guy says that XP doesn't fit on the flash, and is installed on an SD card. In this case, I'd guess the flash is just being used as a

Re: Frame Decision (was [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-16 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Eben Eliason eben.eliason at gmail.com writes: Right. I think this is the biggest point of conflict between my own thoughts for solving the issues and those of the community providing feedback about it. I certainly take the comments regarding accidental invocation seriously, and seriously

Re: Sugar\Windows won't ship

2008-04-26 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Albert Cahalan acahalan at gmail.com writes: The next demand is obvious: eliminate Sugar. Well I think the more likely thing is that a Sugar (shell only) ends up as an icon on the Windows desktop. In fact until Sugar is a little more mature I don't think it would be the worst thing in the

Re: Usability testing

2008-04-13 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
I can echo all of that, and posted recently about my 4 year old. All the same problems with paint: hard to guess what to click on to set the color, popover frame gets very frustrating, two handed drag is a persistent issue for her, speed of opening applications is too slow (in the initial release)

Re:

2008-04-08 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Let me take a crack at it... The closest thing to a valid criticism here is that bitfrost does not protect political dissidents from government monitoring and control. Similarly, a valid criticism of my shampoo is that it doesn't protect me from falling satellites. Which is the bigger threat to

Re: UI usability for 4 year old (was Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!)

2008-03-23 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com writes: On Sunday 23 March 2008 3:59:31 am John R.Hogerhuis wrote: .. (actually it's not all that pleasant for me either given the button placement below the trackpad). Something modal or pressure based would be better. If a key on the keyboard held

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!

2008-03-22 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
John Gilmore gnu at toad.com writes: The second thing is basic UI usability. The pop-around menu border makes the UI thoroughly unusable with the trackpad http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4910 covers this issue and more. Yeah there's an awful lot in your ticket and I didn't notice it

UI usability for 4 year old (was Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!)

2008-03-22 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com writes: I have not seen a good analysis of the frame problem yet. For example I know that at some point the trackpad jumped to the corners very often, and that obviously aggravated it. Also in my experience the thing is nowhere so annoying on my