[Etoys] First use of OLPC feedback (bugs,suggestions,questions)

[stephane ducasse]

Hi all

He took me at least 10 min to be able to open it (I'm really terrible  
with user interfaces) but the result is quite cool.

please find a list of bugs/questions/suggestions after playing with  
my laptop (which is quite cool).

OLPC Bug:
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- I clicked on the mess network then on the small triangle with  
represent my wifi  and I got a window to type the login.
I typed the login in, but I could never get the Ok button letting me  
to press it. :(


Etoy Bugs:
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- etoy projects may get in your way: they can stay over the first  
etoy window and you do not know how to get rid of them.
of course there is the halos but it feels strange.

- when I do load, click on OLPC, get a dialog window, click cancel, I  
get a primitive fail with a debugger.

Suggestion:
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- Is there any plans to have access to the squeak games: SameCell,  
tetris and chess.
Because a chess program would be cool on this machine.
I could open the sameGame because I could get access to the menu:
	
- the size of the square are a bit too small.

- This is a pity that the Squeak classes have so few comments because  
I'm sure a kid could get alone
the SameGame new openInWorld but if it would be explained. I think  
that there is a huge opportunity that such
a "details" can break.

- I was wondering why stuff like skipLists are still in this image.  
I'm sure that we could have a much better contents
that kids could really explore.

- Will DrGeo be buried in the Etoy projects ?
Because this would be better to put it as a separate entry. DrGeo can  
definitively be a first class application on such a machine.

Questions for BotsInc.
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- I removed all references to the file system but when I play with  
the simple drawing tool I could save drawing to files.
So is it possible or not to save files?

- I wanted to load my botsInc project so I put it naively on a USB  
stick but how can I access it. I could not from a load from the load  
your
project list

- Using the fileList I tried to use usbdev1.2_ep02 and some others  
but I failed?
Is there a way?

I feel that there is a huge potential to see the ideas of alan  
becoming true at different level (etoys, Smalltalk skin onion model)
and I have the impression that the Smalltalk part could be made  
easier to access.

Stef