Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
<alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Labyrinth and Maze are both called Kōwhīwhiwhi - suggests an
>>inappropriate translation of Labyrinth (guess it should be translated to
>>a word more appropriate for brainstorm/mindmap activity).
>
> In spanish we have the same problem, and the Labyrinth name was
> changed to "Mind maps".
> Would be good rename the activity in the activity.info to "Mind maps" and
> avoid
> this problems.

The name doesn't make sense in English either. But at a minimum, a
translation comment would be helpful.

>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 22:01:52 +1200
> From: tom at carrott.org
> To: olpc-nz at lists.laptop.org; Devel at lists.laptop.org;
> testing at lists.laptop.org; barry at laptop.org.au
> Subject: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013
>
>
> Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013
> Who: John, Tabitha, Tom
>
> Testing XO-system 1a For XO-4 (build 46)
> Sugar 0.98.7
> Firmware Q7B35
>
> Found that my previously described customization script was not working
> right -- the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard change is overwritten during first
> boot! Updated the customization script to also hack olpc-configure. Will
> look at options to do this better later.
>
> Found that this build does not include the Maori translations for sugar
> itself. Worked with CJL to get the language pack into the customization
> script. We're not sure how we missed this as we have done a moderate
> amount of testing with Maori in previous builds, perhaps we saw the
> activities translated to Maori (activities are built differently) and
> just didn't notice that sugar itself had no Maori.
>
> The language selector is awful. It's slow to appear, the drop downs
> don't work the first time you use them and they scroll very slowly
> compared to the number of entries but too fast to easily spot your
> desired language. Sometimes when changing the language, when you click
> the restart now, nothing happens. If you click restart later and then
> restart the whole laptop the changes seem to take affect.
>
> Some activities that we were expecting to be there, were not (maybe we
> are getting confused between builds prepared for different deployments).
> There is no GetBooks but there is Read (without any books!). There is
> also no Infoslice. There is no SocialCalc. There is no eToys.

Since you were testing the build for AU, the activities are the ones
they selected.

>
> In Browse we went to activities.sugarlabs.org and tried to use the touch
> screen to write in the search but that didn't work, you had to use the
> touchpad button to activate the search box. You also couldn't just touch
> the button that starts the search, you had to use the touchpad button
> (or enter key). You could however use the touchscreen to select the
> activity to go to the activity page and touch to select download.
> Activities did however download successfully, install and run (like the
> Music keyboard activity btw).

Did you launch Browse while in tablet mode? Or switch to tablet mode?

> There used to be a menu on the left side of the homepage in Browse but
> it has gone on all the XO-4 homepages. You used to use that menu to
> access maps, images and sound files, as well as any published Infoslice
> activity.
>
> Maze works.
> Paint works well with touchscreen.
> Physics works well with touchscreen.
> Implode works well with touchscreen.
> Portfolio works.
> Measure works well with touchscreen.
> Labyrinth works.
>
> Write works and the Maori Macrons (now, after some changes) work. The
> insertion of a table changes the font to times new roman which is not
> actually a listed font available in Write.
>
> We're not sure if there is a camera in the XO-4 SKU 303 serial
> SHC318001EC we just got from Australia, there is something there but it
> is at best mis-aligned. This laptop did get banged against a wall on
> it's handle while it was closed. The direction of the impact was mostly
> parallel with the plane of the shut laptop and wasn't too severe. Could
> this move the camera in the body of the laptop and also break it?
> Firmware camera test fails, record behaves reasonably (it only offers to
> record sound). Barry reports the second XO from the pair in this
> shipment has a working camera. The XO-4 we got from Boston does
> recognise it's camera on and it can take high and low quality video
> well. Will take photographs and wait for advice before opening.
>
> Moon still fails to start when the XO language is Maori. Previously
> reported in https://sugardextrose.org/issues/3971
> Clock - loving the new grab hands feature, still doesn't talk when XO is
> in Maori. Maori issue also reported in the same 3971 ticket.
>
> Labyrinth and Maze are both called Kōwhīwhiwhi - suggests an
> inappropriate translation of Labyrinth (guess it should be translated to
> a word more appropriate for brainstorm/mindmap activity).
>
> On some laptops terminal is called Terminal and on others it is called
> Kāpeka.

Most likely different versions of the activity?
>
> WikipediaEN has not had an activity name translation either but this
> might be deliberate.
>
> Turtleblocks activity has a partial translation inside the activity due
> to new blocks being added. The name of the Turtleblocks activity has not
> been translated (but again that might be deliberate).

I will check to make sure all of the latest strings are downloaded
from Pootle. Turlte Blocks should be translated. Will investigate.

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As always, thanks for testing.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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