[Etoys] Stuff to do for Sugar release 0.84

[Walter Bender]

This raises an interesting point. Perhaps an activity could override
the resume behavior. But there is the "new" option in the hover menu
always available.

regards.

-walter

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 27.03.2009, at 15:14, Korakurider wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de
>> > wrote:
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> From: Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
>>>> Date: 27. März 2009 12:00:32 MEZ
>>>> To: Sugar Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Bugs are beautiful people (Volume 1)
>>>>
>>>> We have one week left for our 0.84.2 Release [1]. This is our final
>>>> update for 0.84.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap#Schedule
>>>
>>> I'm curious: who ever tested Etoys in Sugar 0.84?
>>     While I am eager to test it, it became really hard for casual
>> developers without
>>     sugar-jhbuild-capable box (like me) to have Sugar ready-to-test
>> image these days...
>>    SoaS seems promising, but it seems confusing which is official
>> version to test.
>
> Yes it's a bit hard to keep up with the Sugar folks ... The easiest
> way to test is by using "Sugar on a Stick". I simply download that
> disk image and use it in an emulator. SoaS-1 works best so far:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
>
> There were issues reported running this on an XO, that's why I use it
> in emulation.
>
> There are two main UI changes affecting Etoys. For one, clicking the
> Etoys icon on the home screen resumes the latest project, so there is
> no simple access to the "cloudy" launcher screen any more. Secondly,
> other activities now bring up a "save dialog" when stopping them the
> first time, so that kids are more likely to enter a good project name,
> and possibly a description and tags (on subsequent saves this dialog
> is not shown but the meta data re-used).
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>> /Korakurider
>>>
>>> IMHO it would be good to fix this:
>>>
>>> Prompt for title and meta data
>>> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8803
>>>
>>> and possibly this:
>>>
>>> Make launcher project accessible?
>>> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9282
>>>
>>> This reportedly is fixed:
>>>
>>> Video does not play in Particle Dye project
>>> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9282
>>>
>>> What do we need to do to ship it? Fix the project? Check VM fixes
>>> into
>>> SVN?
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, are there any fixes pending that are not yet in the update
>>> stream?
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
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