Activities: Difference between revisions

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For the list of all activities, see Activities/All

For the general public

Applications for use in Sugar are called Activities. This page lists some activities that are commonly Preinstalled 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.

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For a quick overview of the commonly-preinstalled activities, see the laptop.org website.
Activities/All has additional downloadable activities
Category:Activities has every activity with a page on this web site (some are still in development)
Activity queries provides details of activities.

For books, images, and other collections of browsable material, see our set of collections.

Installing one activity

See Activity installation to install groups of activities. To install an Activity: (only if you have an XO)

start the Browse activity on your XO;
go to this page in the browser;
click on the link to an .xo bundle next to the word Download:
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.)
You'll be taken to detail view in the Journal.
Click on "Start" to launch the Activity.

The Activity will start and be installed. It will be included in the list mode of the Home view.

(prior to release 8.2.0) scroll the taskbar in the Home view to the right (by clicking on the arrow ) until you see the icon for the activity; click on it to start. A detailed description with images is in "Install an activity" on the Browse activity's page.

Uploading new activities

For Developers

Add new activities by following the instructions on the Creating an activity page (Please be sure to read our human interface 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-oneline page.

Lists of Activities

Featured on 8.2

These activities are the ones that Software update in the Sugar Control Panel offers to install and update; they are pre-installed in most laptops running release 8.2.0 received through the 2008 Give One, Get One program. There are many other activities known to work on release 8.2.0.

The activity versions below are the latest believed to work with release 8.2.0 (or more precisely, the 8.2 build stream).

For laptops running Release 8.1.0, see the earlier G1G1 activity pack. If your XO is not running the latest release 8.2.0 also known as build 767 (here's how to check), then you should consider upgrading to it; the details are in the 8.2.0 release notes.

Activities: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:05, 9 June 2009

Installing one activity

Uploading new activities

Lists of Activities

Featured on 8.2

Activities

Content collections

Other

Other installation options

From the Internet (G1G1 owners, use this)

Removing activities

via Terminal

via the Sugar shell

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