[OLPC-AU] [olpc-nz] Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 25 September 2010

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 07:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> On 26 September 2010 00:08, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tabitha et al., this is great. Thanks.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz> wrote:
>>> There is no erase option on the turtle
>>> activity in the list view of all the activities in dextrose 373pyg, however
>>> there is an erase option for turtle activity on os852. Although they are
>>> both showing as version 99 they are different which is a bit confusing.
>>
>> This is also due to changes in Sugar. Since Turtle Blocks is part of
>> the "Fructose" collection, it is in a list of activities that can be
>> updated, but not erases. Earlier versions of Sugar allow any activity
>> to be erase, which classroom teachers found to be problematic. The
>> idea is to let the teachers maintain a list of required activities;
>> Turtle Blocks is on the default list.
>
> This answers some of the questions we've been getting from teachers.
> Where can we set/edit this list?
>
> In what version of Sugar was this introduced? This feature doesn't
> seem to be present in 0.84, used in OLPC builds.

So the list of protected activities is a feature that has just landed
in 0.90. But note that already in previous versions (0.84 included, I
think) only activities that had been installed in ~/Activities could
be erased because of UNIX permissions. So it depends on where you have
pre-installed activities in the build you are using.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
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