Activities test in OS4

Activity	version OS4	Last	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	26.2	Yes	No	Have only one toolbar
TamTamEdit	53		No		Use HippoCanvas
Labyrinth	10	11	Yes	Yes
Pippy	38		Yes	Yes	The examples are started in a window (with the metacity title bar)
Memorize	35	36	No	No	Error: No module named libxml2 (solved with "yum install libxml2-python")
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	12	Yes	No
Chat	67		Yes	Yes	Have only one toolbar
TamTamSynthLab	53		No		Use HippoCanvas
WikipediaEN	20	23	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	8.1	Yes	No	(8.1 only add translations)
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	35	Yes	Yes
EToys	113		Yes	----------
Get Books	5		No	No	Error: No module named libxml2 (solved with "yum install libxml2-python")
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	* Last version change every minute :)
Terminal	31		Yes	Yes
Paint	28	31	No	No	Paint 31 starts OK
Colors	15	15.1	No	No	binary blobs (15.1 only add translations)
Physics	7	8	Yes	Yes

Total 37 activities

9 activities don’t start (Memorize / GetBooks / Paint can be easily resolved)

At least 15 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
"yum install libxml2-python" solves the problem with Memorize and GetBooks
Can we include openjdk ?

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

http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/

http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/web-content/

http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/sayamindu/fbreader-activity/

http://dev.laptop.org/git/ebook-browser-reader/

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