[OLPC-AU] XO-AU OS 12 Feedback

[Eric Barrows]

After a bit more playing, I have to say it's a lovely image (apart from the
default text), the access to "Documents" from the journal is great, but is
it possible to go the other way? ie access the journal from Gnome (and have
it make sense)
However before writing the system to the XO from the USB stick the script
runs the switch test, which is going to be a pain when I'm imaging 100
machines.

I love samba and vnc, great work guys.

Now all I need now is a 3.0 XO .


On 18 January 2012 12:16, Eric Barrows <eric.barrows at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> On 15 January 2012 13:59, Peter Hewitt <prh at mulawa.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I have compiled this list as I use the XO:
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>> * 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;
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>> * When installing a new activity I would expect it to be immediately
>> labelled a favourite;
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>> * I have installed and tested all of my 37 activities although I should
>> stress that none of them do anything sneaky :o)
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>> * I was interested to see that the samba-client is pre-installed - I'd be
>> interested to know the reason for this;
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>> * 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:
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>> - 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
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>> I wasn't going to mention this because I only observed it twice but I see
>> the NZ team had a similar problem.
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>> Peter
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