#1739 NORM Trial-3: Allow adding and removing activities to the bottom frame

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#1739: Allow adding and removing activities to the bottom frame
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  Reporter:  tomeu        |       Owner:  Eben   
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  sugar        |     Version:         
Resolution:               |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment (by Eben):

 > Yes, but what happens if the children deletes the journal entry for
 Browse? He needs to get a new Browse activity from some other laptop? And
 what about the Journal? It's an even more special activity.

 Journal is special; it doesn't belong in the Journal (We can spare the
 kids the lesson on recursion), nor the frame.  As the only filesystem, the
 Journal is treated more like part of Sugar and less like an activity.  As
 for the rest of them, I say let them do what they want.  If someone else
 comes out with a web browser activity that's far superior to ours, who are
 we to force ours to remain in the frame?  These are obviously the basic
 activities you mention, and I find it unlikely that a kid will want to get
 rid of these.  If they do by accident, then it should be easy to get them
 back, either from anyone else in their class, or from whatever content
 repository we provide for downloading new activities.

 > What if we have a basic set of activities that appear on the frame,
 cannot be removed from there, and don't appear in the Journal? They could
 be Browse, Paint, Write, Record, Chat, ... the ones we consider are part
 of Sugar. Perhaps we could lock them on the left side of the frame and
 leave the right side for adding shortcuts to activities in the Journal.
 Some of the shipped activities won't be so integral to the Sugar
 experience.

 While I agree these are the most important, I still think it defeats the
 idea if we special case our own activities.  Maybe there are better
 versions available.  Maybe they created a new version of a base activity
 themselves with custom features.  Maybe, even  though we think these are
 basic, some kids would rather have other activities in the first page of
 their tray. I think we need to trust the kids to manage this on their own,
 with the only backup being the ability to re-download the core activities
 from the school server if needed.

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