On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote:
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be). Every
activity author should not be inventing various implementations of a book
shelf UI concepts for dealing with a monoculture 'collection' of objects.
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 04:17, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote:
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be). Every
activity author should not be inventing various implementations of a book
shelf UI concepts for dealing with a monoculture 'collection' of objects.
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be). Every
activity author should not be inventing various implementations of a book
shelf UI concepts for dealing with a monoculture 'collection' of objects.
Imagine if I wanted to put together a 'collection' of Physics
Hi Aleksey,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Aleksey,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 05:02, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:53:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
The term content bundles is still pretty wooly
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:56:40PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Aleksey,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Aleksey,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 05:02, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:53:33AM +0100,
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Aleksey,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Aleksey,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 05:02, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:53:33AM
On 26 Jul 2009, at 20:16, Eben Eliason wrote:
I've always envisioned a Bundle activity which is a glorified
tar/zip/other-bundle-format viewing and creation tool. With Bundle, it
would be possible to open any such file in the Journal (including
activity bundles, of course) to view its
All,
In my own emails when I refer to content bundles I am not referring
to anything that Sugar Labs has proposed as a standard. I was just
thinking about how to deal with the Children's Book Library project,
how would I deal with the problem of distributing 2,000 books to
children without
A possible solution for 2.
The catalog file should be a .html file with file:// links to the USB drive.
If the kid opens the .html file in Browse and clicks on the link then it
will be copied to the Journal and opened in Read.
The .html file can have pictures.
The only criterium is that the
Gary,
I was thinking myself that enhancing Get Internet Archive Books to
deal with local zip files of books as well as the Internet would be a
possible approach. Currently GIAB produces and can be resumed from a
Journal entry but does nothing with it. I might change that so it can
be resumed
Hi James,
On 24 Jul 2009, at 15:21, Jim Simmons wrote:
Gary,
I was thinking myself that enhancing Get Internet Archive Books to
deal with local zip files of books as well as the Internet would be a
possible approach. Currently GIAB produces and can be resumed from a
Journal entry but does
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Sayamindu,
On 23 Jul 2009, at 19:02, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
..snip snip
Hmmm. The down side of this is that you end up with 1 Journal
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmons wrote:
Gary,
What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, and which
shows image files for book covers.
Yes, book cover images, is the big missing feature with
Hi Eben,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 02:24, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmons wrote:
Gary,
What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, and which
shows image files for book covers.
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:53:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Eben,
On 25 Jul 2009, at 02:24, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmons wrote:
Gary,
What Scotty wants is a listing
below and wonder if we need a
different kind of bundle that can be used to distribute collections of
books without requiring the child to install the whole collection.
James Simmons
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:33:09 +0100
From: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Book
From: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read
To: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com
Cc: Sugar devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, OLPC
Bookreader
list bookrea...@lists.laptop.org
Message-ID: 37e66200-fa85-4d24-aa3e-9e2a3a520
of book) would make
quite an accessible solution. Perhaps if there's interest, we can
polish some of the above steps to make it even smoother in 0.86?
Regards,
--Gary
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:33:09 +0100
From: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
..snip snip
Hmmm. The down side of this is that you end up with 1 Journal zip bundle
holding a large number of books... So, I resume this zip bundle, pick one of
the many books and start reading. I assume the single
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi James,
On 23 Jul 2009, at 16:52, Jim Simmons wrote:
Yesterday I had an email exchange with Scotty Auble of the Rural
Design Collective project who have a list of 2,000 some odd books they
want to distribute to
Gary,
What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, and which
shows image files for book covers. The problem I have with USB
devices on the Journal is that they are listed in descending order by
the date and time they were created. Even a few hundred books on a
USB stick isn't all
Hi Sayamindu,
On 23 Jul 2009, at 19:02, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
..snip snip
Hmmm. The down side of this is that you end up with 1 Journal zip
bundle
holding a large number of books... So, I resume this zip
On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmons wrote:
Gary,
What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, and which
shows image files for book covers.
Yes, book cover images, is the big missing feature with current
Journal abilities when accessing external media (along with a Journal
Gary,
If it wasn't clear (because I started this discussion with Scotty
elsewhere) my idea was to put the ebooks, cover images, and Dublin
core catalog in a Zip file, then make an Activity that could read that
Zip file, generate a GUI catalog as a sortable table with images, etc,
in it, then let
On 23 Jul 2009, at 18:28, Gary C Martin wrote:
Just wondering. If I had a USB stick with 2,000 pdf, plain text,
etext, djvu, epub etc files on it... if they are at least reasonably
well titled file names (lets say at least title, author), then a child
can:
1). pop in the USB stick
2). goto
On 23 Jul 2009, at 22:56, Jim Simmons wrote:
Gary,
If it wasn't clear (because I started this discussion with Scotty
elsewhere) my idea was to put the ebooks, cover images, and Dublin
core catalog in a Zip file, then make an Activity that could read that
Zip file, generate a GUI catalog as
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be).
That would be handy. I would prefer a standard for /how/ to cover these
features that indivicual activities can implement though -- this could let
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:31:18PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
This makes perfect sense to me. In particular, Read should be able to read
.xol files and display books contained within them if they are in a
known/readable format. Adding support over time for alternatives to
catalog.atom would
Hello,
While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was
wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and
launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have
ebooks in them). If we use a zip archive format, with the following
internal layout, it
This makes perfect sense to me. In particular, Read should be able to read
.xol files and display books contained within them if they are in a
known/readable format. Adding support over time for alternatives to
catalog.atom would not be difficult (there are some learning-objects formats
that
On 22 Jul 2009, at 22:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
Hello,
While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was
wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and
launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have
ebooks in them). If we use a
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