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

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 07:20:37 EDT 2010


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:51 AM, 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?

I'll have to get back to you on this.

>
> In what version of Sugar was this introduced? This feature doesn't
> seem to be present in 0.84, used in OLPC builds.

I think it is new as of 0.90 (or possibly 0.88).

>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Technical Manager
> One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia
> p: +61 425 239 701
> w: http://laptop.org.au
>

-walter

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Walter Bender
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