Hi,<br><br>I see a few issues that pretty much need to be solved in order.<br><br><ol><li>How can we enable writers to easily change the Help Content, bring it up to date and customize it for the XO and for Sugar on a Stick.</li>
<li>Who will bring it up to date and customize it?</li><li>How can it be localized effectively?<br>
</li><li>Who will enable different versions to go into different releases?</li><li>How will people find the Help content, a ? in the activity ring and/or from Browse.</li></ol>Its easy to discuss #5 bur really until we solve the ones above it it hardly matters.<br>
<br>So how can I help cause issue 1 to be solved?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, S Page <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skierpage@gmail.com">skierpage@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Seth Woodworth wrote:<br>
> If not for Rainbow I think that the help activity and the browser could access the same material.<br>
<br>
</div>?? I can visit file:///home/olpc/Activities/Help.activity/help/XO_Introduction.html<br>
fine in Browse in 8.2.1. (Does having a developer key affect Rainbow<br>
file access restrictions?)<br>
<br>
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Yama Ploskonka <<a href="mailto:yama@netoso.com">yama@netoso.com</a>> responded:<br>
<div class="im">> <snip><br>
>><br>
>> The point of having the Help activity as its own icon was to put it as<br>
</div>>> close and easy to the user as possible. ...<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> As is now, an inconspicuous icon among many, low usability score.<br>
<br>
</div>I think a prominent help icon and "Need help?" text on Browse's start<br>
page would be far more discoverable than a (?) among many, but I live<br>
in the browser.<br>
<br>
The OLPC 8.2.1 start page is<br>
<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/tree/library-common/layout.tmpl" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/tree/library-common/layout.tmpl</a><br>
Code rebuilds the nifty expanding Library of local content whenever<br>
you install content, see <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library</a> , this<br>
could also detect installation of local help.<br>
<br>
The SugarLabs start page is<br>
<a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/blobs/master/data/index.html" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/blobs/master/data/index.html</a><br>
Sugar distributions lack the expanding Library (SL ticket 574) but<br>
maybe that's moot if <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library</a><br>
comes to fruition.<br>
<br>
You can determine in JavaScript if there's a local help manual in the<br>
file system or not and create a link to it accordingly; seems-to-work<br>
code is at <a href="http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/show_help.html" target="_blank">http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/show_help.html</a><br>
<br>
Seth:<br>
<div class="im">> I really really really owe the Sugar community a long email documenting<br>
> what the heck went on with the Help activity last year<br>
<br>
</div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FLOSSManuals" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FLOSSManuals</a> has a section ready and waiting ;-)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">=S Page<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>