User:Godiard/Activities for F14

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Activities test in OS9

Activity Version Last Starts Has new toolbar Uses journal Can collaborate Notes
Speak 21 Yes Yes The code of the new toolbar is included in the activity
TamTamJam 54 Yes No Yes
TamTamEdit 54 No No Yes
TamTamSynthLab 54 Yes No Yes
TamTamMini 54 Yes No Yes
Typing Turtle 26 26.2 Yes No Yes Have only one toolbar
Labyrinth 11 11 Yes Yes Yes
Pippy 38 Yes Yes Yes The examples are started in a window (with the metacity title bar) 10688
Memorize 35 36 Yes No Yes Yes
Browse 120 Yes Yes Yes Yes Tabbed browsing but crash.
Measure 32 Yes Yes Yes
Image Viewer 14 Yes Yes Yes
Words 4 Yes No Have only one toolbar. Ugly UI
Write 72 Yes Yes Yes Yes
StopWatch 4 Yes No Yes Have only one toolbar
Moon 11 Yes Yes Yes No (button is greyed out)
Help 12 12 Yes No Is likely outdated for the latest Sugar version and only available in english.
Chat 67 Yes Yes Yes Yes Have only one toolbar
WikipediaEN 20 23 No
Scratch 17 Yes own toolbar Yes
Jukebox 20 Yes No Crash trying to play ogg file. Get X Windows error.
Distance 21 Yes No
Log 23 Yes Yes
InfoSlicer 8 8.1 Yes No (8.1 only add translations)
Record 88 Yes No Yes Yes UI Rework ahead
Implode 9 Yes Yes
Maze 6 Yes No Have only one toolbar
Calculate 34 35 Yes Yes
EToys 113 Yes own toolbar Yes Yes
Get Books 5 Yes No
Finance 3 Yes No
Read 87 Yes Yes Yes (Yes) Collaboration is being reworked currently
Turtle Art 104 Yes Yes * Last version change every minute :)
Terminal 31 Yes Yes
Paint 31 31 Yes No Yes
Colors 15 15.1 No No binary blobs (15.1 only add translations)
Physics 8 8 Yes Yes Yes No (button is greyed out)

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.

We need add text files (like in Gutemberg.org) support to Read, and enable text to speech, highlight text and bookmarks to the different backends (pdf, epub, text) when possible.


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


More info about OPDS:

http://opds-spec.org/

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/OPDS#Online_OPDS_Catalogs

http://openlibrary.org/subjects/accessible_book

More book sources:

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks

IA Children Library http://www.archive.org/details/iacl

http://www.freeliterature.org/

http://www.hesperian.org/

http://lasindias.org/libros

More Activities related tasks

New Toolbar in all our activities

Check UI fixes for Record in Dextrose http://git.sugarlabs.org/~m_anish/record/ui-fixes

Record UI ideas http://www.flatlandfarm.de/blog/?p=283

Interesting Activities in ASLO

This section need more work, now is only a list. There are 312 activites in ASLO, this is a preselection

For reference, here is the list of activities included in Sucrose 0.88 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes#Sugar_Activities

Activity Url Works New Toolbar Use Journal Collaboration Notes
Abacus http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4293 Yes Yes Yes No Powerfull idea. Works ok.
GeoJAM http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4356 Yes No No No Simple online/offline map activity. Only to see maps.
Calendario http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4360 Yes No No No Simple calendar app. Needs more work but is functional
Clock http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4191 Yes No No No Start without showing the clock and with a error in the log.
WatchMe http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4205 Yes No No Yes Need gtk-vnc-python
Plot http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4287 Yes No Yes No Confusing interface.
Ruler http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4192 Yes Yes No No
Edit http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4349 Yes No Yes Yes
StarChart http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4300 Yes No No No UI need work. Error with python 2.7 "integer argument expected, got float" and don't show constellations
Poll http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4074 No No Confirm Confirm Starts, but don't works. Error in log. UI is not very standard
FotoToon http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4253 No No Yes No Error with python 2.7 "integer argument expected, got float" and don't show pictures


Backup and Restore?

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4326

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4327

Ideas if we have a time machine or a clone developers machine ....

Integrate in Paint functionalities of Scribble http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4242

Integrate in Pippy functionalities of Desarrolar / Edit / idle / PyDebug / DevTutor ?

Geometry

There are 3 activities, not are very integrated to sugar. May be can include one of them in Gnome.

Good idea, need more work:

X2O http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4223

TimeLapse http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4270 (does not starts in F14, use glade)

Jam2Jam http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4290 (does not start in F14, csound tidy up: segment violation)

Open Video Chat http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4305 (does not work in F14)

ShowNTell http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4196 (last release 09/2009, does not start)