Activities test in OS4

Activity	version OS4 / update	Works	New Toolbar	Notes
Speak	18	Yes	Yes	The code of the new toolbar is included in the activity
TamTamJam	54	No		Use HippoCanvas
Typing Turtle	26	Yes	No	Have only one toolbar
TamTamEdit	53	No		Use HippoCanvas
Labyrinth	10	Yes	Yes
Pippy	38	Yes	Yes	The examples are started in a window (with the metacity title bar)
Memorize	35	No		Error: No module named libxml2
Browse	112	Yes	Yes	Tabed browsing but crash.
Measure	32	Yes	Yes
Image Viewer	14	Yes	Yes
Words	4	Yes	No	Have only one toolbar. Ugly UI
Write	72	Yes	Yes
StopWatch	4	Yes	No	Have only one toolbar
Moon	11	Yes	Yes
Help	11	Yes	No
Chat	67	Yes	Yes	Have only one toolbar
TamTamSynthLab	53	No		Use HippoCanvas
WikipediaEN	20	No
Scratch	20100321	Yes	---------
Jukebox	20	Yes	No	Crash trying to play ogg file. Get X Windows error. Use HippoCanvas
Distance	21	Yes	No
Log	23	Yes	Yes
InfoSlicer	8	Yes	No
Record	86	Yes	No	Bad UI
Implode	9	Yes	Yes
Maze	6	Yes	No	Have only one toolbar
TamTamMini	53	No		Use HippoCanvas
Calculate	34	Yes	Yes
EToys	113	Yes	----------
Get Books	5	No		Error: No module named libxml2
Finance	3	Yes	No
Read	87	Yes	No	Can’t open PDF (evince.View(): module object has not attribute View)
Turtle Art	104	Yes	Yes
Terminal	31	Yes	Yes
Paint	28	No	No
Colors	15	No	No	binary blobs
Physics	7	Yes	Yes

Total 37 activities

9 activities don’t start

13 activities with old toolbar

Notes:

Activity Update does not work.
Neighborhood, Friends, Home keys does not work.
Alt-Tab doe not work
Need apply patch to create default keyring http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10290

The Library

Now, the only view of the library is the home page in Browse. You can’t remove a bundle from the Library, see the version or the size. If we change the format of the index file (using json instead of .library_pages/index.html), we can display them in the browser home page and in a custom view to enable all this operations. Is very simple create a python application to show this information in Gnome too.

I think the books, content bundles and PDF files have a different use case than the general objects in the Journal. A book will be used many times. I think we can add a “Move to Library” option in the menu of content bundles and PDFs in the Journal.

Activities related:

Read [1] is unmaintained. The poppler interface has changed several times, and is not possible run Read in many platforms.
Read ETexts [2] download, display and do text to speech with texts from project Gutenberg.
Read SD Comics [3] can be integrated?
Get Books [4] and Get Internet Archive Books (http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4194). GB contains to GIAB. Why two activities? GB is from Sayamindu, probably is unmaintained. This activities don’t use the language, i can’t ask for books in Spanish. Get Books can read a catalog in a attached device, how build this catalog? Can be modified to read a catalog in the school server?
Info Slicer [5] can create content bundles, but can’t put it in the Library.
ViewSlides [8] ?

I would be happy, if we can provide a coherent use case for book searching, downloading, reading and managing. Nice improvements can be, tagging, bookmarks and text to speech.

[1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4028

[2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4035

[3] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4340

[4] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4304

[5] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4042

[6] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/user/45

[7] http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction

[8] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4039

Pending tickets

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2556

More info:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/e-book-making-scripts

Comments from James Simmons:

(I have asked for comments to James Simmons [6]. He is the maintainer of Get Internet Archives Books, Read ETexts, Read SD Comics and the writer of “Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child” [7])

Gonzalo,

Any opinion I have on the subject will be found in my FLOSS Manual "E-Book Enlightenment":

http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction

Above and beyond that the needs I see are:

1). Finish the Pathagar Book Server project. It lacks some needed features, in my opinion.

2). Finish the Get Books Activity. It was supposed to be able to work with ANY OPDS book server (including Pathagar and calibre) but at the moment it only supports the Internet Archive and Feedbooks).

3). Add Plain Text support to the Read Activity, so you can use Read for pretty much any e-book.

4). Finish Aleksey Lim's Library Activity. Among other things this was supposed to allow children to share a shelf of books with other children through the network. You would not be able to copy any old Journal entry; just those that the child put on a "shelf" using the Library Activity.

5). Add Text To Speech support to Read, if possible with word highlighting.

James Simmons