Here are some notes from Cris Anderson, one of my interns this summer who is fluent in Mongolian. Because of his language and technical skills he heard a lot of these issues first hand.
>From Cris: Tech problems I have noticed: file artifacts in the journal--the process went something like this-insert a flash drive to the xo that has a lot of files on it from windows computer, they show up in journal, remove flash drive, erase many of the files on a windows machine, use the flash drive with windows, mac and linux computers for a couple weeks, put it back in the XO and old files that have been deleted are still cluttering up the journal in usb view mode. The team had a hard time remembering all the services that need turned on when setting up a server. configuring to always start all necessary server services at runtime would help. In 650 and 656 the team saw a few instances of the journal disappearing-reinstalling the journal activity fixed this. When using an activity customization key, the additional Scratch Media and Project files and folders were not unzipped/installed with the activity. the team and teachers depend on that media to be there for teaching purposes olpc-update froze up and didn't do anything when going from 656 to 703. A work-around still needs to be developed for the 1000 pilot XOs that don't type in Mongolian. Either manufacturing data needs adjusted to auto-configure to the English/Mongolian hybrid keyboard, or a keyboard config file hack needs to be done (though this would be subsequently over-written in later OS updates). A language pack update option would be a good Sugar Control Panel addition ---- Tomeu, in terms of the questions you asked below I will respond shortly. Elana On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:18 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, >> record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - >> especially if it is more than a few days old. > > What I would love to read from you is an analysis of which are the > concrete difficulties that users are having when trying to find stuff > in the journal, and then work with us in improving how the journal > works so that users can more easily find their work. > > As you know, the Journal is one of the most immature parts in Sugar, > thus this is a good moment to improve what is worth keeping and drop > what is better to not have there. The feedback you are able to provide > is critical to this improvement process. > >> This is why everyone is >> desperate to save their projects on USB keys. > > Does this happen in all other deployment sites? > >> Also it seems that >> everything doesn't always go there. For example sometimes the pictures >> from a session in record are there - sometimes they aren't - sometimes >> it's just one picture - sometimes none. I have seen this many times - >> again it's why everyone wants to save on a USB right away. > > Record creates several entries in the journal: one per video, one per > photo, one per audio recording and one to tie them all together. Maybe > this is confusing users? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to use over >>>> a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't find things that they >>>> did unless it was done within the last 30 minutes. >>> >>> Could you please elaborate on the difficulties that people have when >>> using the journal? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Tomeu >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar