On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg<b...@freudenbergs.de> wrote: > (moving to devel-list) > > Yes indeed, but we still have no obvious technical solution for this > in Sugar. > > Adding a pre-made project to the Journal might work, but currently it > would be resumed regularly and modified on stopping. It would need to > be marked as a template so that when keeping it, a copy is saved by > default. However, finding this template in the Journal would be hard. > > Making it into a separate activity bundle seems somewhat pretentious > to me, it would just be Etoys under a different name, right? And it > would suffer from the same resume-by-default problem like Etoys, in > that the Sugar UI makes it not easy enough to launch a fresh instance. > > Ideas welcome.
That's hard. I think one point here is that there's often a tradeoff between flexibility and simplicity (though not always). Etoys is extraordinarily powerful, and can do all kinds of awesome things, but if someone really JUST wants a simple slideshow, a tool designed just for this, with a few really basic slide templates all ready to go the moment a new activity is started might be worthwhile as well. For Etoys itself, maybe some of those steps could be collapsed. Perhaps instead of clicking on "new project", there are simply a number of different primitive types of projects to choose from, one of which is a "book." Maybe clicking on this can set up the UI as best it can for that project, revealing those tools, adding the first page, creating a sample slide with placeholder text, etc. This would reduce those first 5 or six steps to about 2 or 3, right? Eben > - Bert - > > On 02.07.2009, at 14:51, Walter Bender wrote: > >> I still wish there was a >> launch-this-project-and-we'll-have-taken-care-of-steps-1–5-below-for- >> you >> Etoys bundle kicking around that we could just ship with the Journal. >> >> -walter >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bert >> Freudenberg<b...@freudenbergs.de> wrote: >>> Since this does not seem to be obvious: It's really simple to create >>> nice presentations in Etoys, there is not even scripting involved: >>> >>> 0. Start a fresh Etoys copy (in Strawberry, right-click the Etoys >>> icon >>> and choose "start" rather than resuming the latest project) >>> 1. click "new project" >>> 2. From the "supplies" box in the toolbar, drag out a "book". >>> 3. Use the top-left button to toggle more book controls >>> 4. Use the "+" button to add pages >>> 5. Place text on a page by dragging out a Text from the "supplies" >>> box, resize after right-clicking by dragging the yellow handle >>> 6. Import images either via the clipboard or directly from the >>> Journal >>> (using the Journal icon in the top right) >>> 7. Add annotations using the paint tool >>> 8. Add visual and sound effects for turning pages in the book's menu. >>> 9. Play with the options in the book's menu (like "view pages full >>> screen") etc. >>> >>> ... and of course you can place scripted objects / animations on the >>> pages too if you like. >>> >>> Also, the Etoys QuickGuides (accessible from the left-most button in >>> the toolbar) have an entire section on Books. >>> >>> - Bert - > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel