Martin, Regarding pushing activities, I agree that putting them on the XS to allow the users to manage themselves is the best way. If a teacher wants to make sure that all have it installed, they can always create a folder with the activity uploaded to make it unambiguous. A "Todays files" folder would be useful, with the teacher directing children to it using sharing Bookmarks (Browse), so they have only to join the shared activity and then click on the Bookmark - 2 clicks to the resources for the lesson.
3 questions, (1) what happens if the version on the XS is different (higher or lower) than a version one already on the XO? Do you get duplicates or does the latest downloaded/run version preside? (2) how can one upload an activity to a folder on the XS from an XO? (3) What is the location on the XS of site files and course files, in case I want to load stuff manually? Here is a combined report on several related non-critical issues. Firstly, I took note of your suggestion and updated my four XOs (2 B4s and 2 C1s) using 802/2QE41 and the latest version of the activities. I upgraded all of them using the same memory stick using the fresh install method (four game keys on boot). So they should have been identical software wise. I discovered two issues in this process. (1) It's difficult to know which are the latest stable versions of activities as the OLPC and Sugar activities pages differ (unless I missed the small print). Sugar has more advanced versions. However, I noted that you referred to Browse 102 which is the current version on the OLPC wiki for that activity. I decided to use the OLPC wiki Activities page for all the "G1G1" core activities and the Sugar site latest versions for the rest. I have yet to test them all but all seem OK so far. SO, I am using Browse 102 and Read 56. (2) At risk of seeming to make a fuss out of nothing, this issue has the potential to cause a lot of confusion and time wasting. After noticing some activities and collections failed to start or appear, I suspected that some of the downloads were incomplete. This was confirmed when I looked at the shell screen that appears at the stage when activities are installed one by one. If there are errors, the activity is shown with an exclamation mark rather than a plus sign. I found several of the files were not installing properly. This I found to be because they were incomplete. The downloads had terminated partway through, however with no indication of anything amiss. I used a download manager and re-downloaded the ones that had failed to install. True enough, they now all installed and I can see all the collections, for instance. The issue here is that in countries where there is unreliable connectivity (slow with outages, as is the case here in Solomons) this will be something people will experience. Can the downloads be provided in a more reliable way so that one knows that one has got the full file? Or otherwise recommend people to use download managers. Now to the other issues. (A) PDFs uploaded to Moodle folders always open in the Rainbow-Daemon dialogue when you left click on the links. If you go to hyperlinks on HTML pages either in my local public folders or out on the net, a PDF file always opens in the Browse version of PDF reader when you left click on it. In all my tests it is fully reproducable using both B4 and C1s. I would prefer them to open in Read activity, which has but it's not a huge problem, they are very similar. One can also Keep and then open from the Journal. But why the rainbow-daemon window? Thanks! David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link http://www.leeming-consulting.com -----Original Message----- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 22 December 2009 12:43 a.m. To: David Leeming Subject: Re: [Server-devel] PDF resources in Moodle On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:30 AM, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it is reproducible. I am using 802/Q2E41 and Browse-98.xo and the XS is > the current latest version stable build. Thanks. Orange flag right there: Browse-98.xo? Get Browse-102.xo from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/ (and I think that will fix your B4s that don't auto-authenticate ;-) So - upgrade Browse, retest! - are you using Squid? If yes, switch it off, retest...? - other websites serving PDFs -- test one from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:PDF > Where do I register bugs, sorry I should know that. Let me know and I will > do it if you confirm you can replicate. http://dev.laptop.org/ get an account there. It's a rite of passage ;-) If you want to draw more attention to the usability issues for future releases of Sugar, also get an account on http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ and file a bug there. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
