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<center><div style="font-size:140%; margin-bottom:5px;">''For the list of all activities, see [[Activities/All]]''</div></center> |
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{{Users}} |
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Applications for use in Sugar are called '''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Activities|Activities]]'''. This page lists {{Preinstalled}} activities and describes how to find others you can install yourself. The name of an activity links to more information about it; if you're using an XO you can click its download link to install it. For books, images, and other collections of [[Browse|browsable]] material, see our set of '''[[collections]]'''. |
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* For a quick overview of our activities, see the [http://laptop.org/gettingstarted laptop.org] website. |
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* For a list of all downloadable activities, see '''[[Activities/All]]'''. |
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* Other lists of downloadable bundles: [[Activities/G1G1]], [[Collections]]. |
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== Installing one activity == |
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See [[Activity installation]] to install groups of activities. |
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To install an Activity: |
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(only if you have an XO) |
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# start the [[Browse]] activity on your XO; |
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# go to this page in the browser; |
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# click on the link to an .xo bundle next to the word ''Download:'' |
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# When the download is complete, click "Show in Journal". (If you click "OK", you can continue browsing and finish the installation from the Journal later.) |
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# You'll be taken to detail view in the Journal. |
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# Click on "Star" to launch the Activity. The Activity will start and be installed. It will be included in the list mode of the Home view. |
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#* ''(prior to release [[8.2.0]])'' scroll the taskbar in the Home view to the right (by clicking on the arrow [[Image:Frame-scroll-right.gif|25px]]) until you see the icon for the activity; click on it to start. |
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A detailed description with images is in the [[Browse#Install_an_activity|Browse activity's page]]. |
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== Uploading new activities == |
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{{Developers}} |
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Add new activities by following the instructions on the '''[[Creating an activity]]''' page (Please be sure to read our human interface [[OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines|guidelines]] in addition to the [[activity guidelines]]). When adding your new activity to this page, follow the template syntax as described on the [[Template:Activity]] page. |
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== Lists of Activities == |
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=== Featured on 8.2 === |
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{{:Activities/G1G1/8.2}} |
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=== Other === |
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* '''[[Activities/All]]''' - all tested educational activities |
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* '''[[Activities/Other]]''' - all others, including partly-finished and just fun activities |
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* '''[[Collections]]''' of library content are organized separately. |
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Specific collections of activity and content are available; see the '''[[WorldWideWorkshop]]''' and '''[[GCompris]]''' activity sets, and repositories of [[Etoys]] projects at '''[http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/projects/olpc/ Potsdam University]'''. |
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Note: The [[Activity packs]] page is being deprecated in favor of pages such as [[Activities/Peru]] |
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== Other installation options == |
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{{:Activity installation}} |
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== Removing activities == |
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=== via Terminal === |
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Open the [[Terminal Activity]], and do the following (depends on whether you installed activities yourself or not) replacing ''ActivityName'' with the name of the activity (e.g. [[TamTam|TamTamMini]]) : |
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:''Note: You may want to "ls" before you "rm" so you can see what's in the directory and what options you have. '' |
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'''If done carelessly (e.g. removing [[Terminal]], [[Browse]], or [[Journal]]) your machine may operate in reduced functionality until you manually reinstall the activity!''' |
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cd Activities |
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rm -r ''ActivityName''.activity |
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=== via the Sugar shell === |
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''to be added'' |
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== See also == |
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* [http://www.laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/Sugar_InstallingActivities.html "Installing activities"] and other pages about Activities in the [http://www.laptop.org/manual manual] for [[Release notes/8.2.0|Release 8.2.0]]. |
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** For prior releases, "[http://laptop.org/7.1.0/gettingstarted/activities.shtml using activities]" page in the [http://laptop.org/gettingstarted OLPC getting started guide] |
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* See also : [[Activity bundle]], [[Collections]], [[Software ideas]], [[List of activity summaries]] |
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[[Category:Subsystems]] |
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[[category:Sugar]] |
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[[Category:Activity installation]] |
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