[OLPC-AU] XO-AU OS 12 Feedback

[Eric Barrows]

Love the change in tool bar function.
But I agree the font is a deal breaker, I can not roll out something like
that to indigenous ESL kids.

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Regards Eric.
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Eric Barrows
SPTI ICT Maningrida
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On 15 January 2012 13:59, Peter Hewitt <prh at mulawa.net> wrote:

> I know from experience that the hard thing about asking for feedback is
> that 99% of what you get will be negative stuff so can I start out by
> saying that "XO-AU OS 12" is a great achievement and I for one appreciate
> the many many hours of work that are entailed.
>
> I'm not all that experienced with using the XO itself (I work mainly on
> (shhh!) a Windows XP box) so please disregard any of my feedback that is
> inappropriate.
>
> I have compiled this list as I use the XO:
>
> * the italic spiky font is a most unfortunate choice and is hard to read -
> I'm not persuaded by the argument that this font is used in schools -
> screen and page are usually different - eg sans-serif for the former and
> serif for the latter;
>
> * When installing a new activity I would expect it to be immediately
> labelled a favourite;
>
> * I have installed and tested all of my 37 activities although I should
> stress that none of them do anything sneaky :o)
>
> * I was interested to see that the samba-client is pre-installed - I'd be
> interested to know the reason for this;
>
> * occasionally when I right click on XO and choose "Shutdown", the black &
> white warnings screen shows and remains - I have to power down with the
> switch. Nothing external is plugged in when this happens. I've tried to
> narrow down the problem but, as you can see from the following, with little
> success:
>
> - install 2 new activities from USB, test activities, unmount USB,
> shutdown - problem - could not reproduce
> - start up, shutdown - ok
> - start up, run Weigh activity, shutdown - ok
> - start up, run Stars activity, shutdown - ok
> - start up, journal, usb in, unmount usb, usb out, shutdown - ok
> - start up, journal, usb in, install Stars, unmount usb, usb out, shutdown
> - ok
>
> I wasn't going to mention this because I only observed it twice but I see
> the NZ team had a similar problem.
>
> Peter
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