[OLPC New Zealand] Testing Summary - 13 August 2011, Auckland NZ

[Gary Martin]

Hi Tabitha,

On 13 Aug 2011, at 12:35, Tabitha Roder wrote:

> Testing Summary - 13 August 2011, Auckland NZ
> Who: Fabiana, Gary, Nevyn, Oliver, Tabitha
> 
> Physics
> Would like to be able to copy and paste objects.
> Would like a tool for making an arc shape
> You can't put a motor in the empty space inside a polygon, so you can't make it rotate about it's middle -- perhaps polygons should be filled in? Or optionally filled in so you can also put things inside when that takes your fancy?
> Would like an option to put walls around the window to make the edge of the screen a wall (can be achieved with rectangles and pins but it takes ages).
> Would like to be able to rotate shapes as well as moving them in pause mode. Could we make use of the right click to do rotate?
> A library of preset shapes would be good, such as cogs (cogs are really really hard to draw in physics, I once tried for ages to make an escapement). 
> Still want density option, maybe colour as indicator. 

Many thanks for the feedback. Your 'walls around the window' falls quite well into a feature some of us were discussing a while back for adding a small selection of preset world templates (could include some quick start setups and examples). A library of preset shapes is a really great idea I'd not considered, especially a selection of cogs!

Regards,
--Gary

> Free From Malaria 4 fails to start on XO-1.5 on os874 with the following error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 21, in <module>
>     main.main()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line 121, in main
>     module = __import__(module_name)
>   File "/home/olpc/Activities/FreeFromMalaria.activity/activity.py", line 22, in <module>
>     import controller.GameController
>   File "/home/olpc/Activities/FreeFromMalaria.activity/controller/GameController.py", line 19, in <module>
>     from view import ComicScreen;
>   File "/home/olpc/Activities/FreeFromMalaria.activity/view/ComicScreen.py", line 19, in <module>
>     import gtk.glade
> ImportError: No module named glade
> Exited with status 1, pid 1550 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x9870e38>, '0aeadc5c0cfe86537d5dc68cc97c82d90926b9c4')
> 
> Browse failed to start while testing free from Malaria on XO-1.5 on os874:
> 1. Run Browse, download Free From Malaria 4
> 2. Stop browse
> 3. Testing Free From Malaria (which failed as above),
> 4. Start Browse
> 5. Browse fails to start with the following error 
> ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (HippoCanvasBox)
> returning /home/olpc/.sugar/default/org.laptop.WebActivity/data/gecko/prefs.js for key NS_APP_PREFS_50_FILE
> 1313236904.651786 ERROR dbus.proxies: Introspect error on :1.24:/org/laptop/WebActivity: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
> process 2446: Array or variant type requires that type string be written, but end_dict_entry was written.
> The overall signature expected here was 'a{ss}' and we are on byte 3 of that signature.
>   D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
> Terminated by signal 6, pid 2446 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x9b80d88>, dbus.ByteArray('e8865bf6c4b0fee369ae5faea822991649537af6', variant_level=1))
>  
> Browse failed to start with the same error every time, had to restart laptop to fix it. I tried the steps above again after erasing free from malaria and browse didn't have any problems. I didn't see this problem again.
> 
> Tested Get Books (the version that comes with os874, not the latest, sorry) and everything seemed to work well -- this is a really nice resource if you're connected to the internet!
> 
> Tested Log 25 on os874, couldn't find how to put log files into the journal. We nearly always want to put log files onto a USB flash drive -- it takes a fairly technical user to navigate to the right place in terminal and copy the log files. Could this be automated? 
> 
> I spent quite a long time on an os874 XO trying to find recently updated activities on http://activities.sugarlabs.org -- there is an updated button but you only get the last 5 updates. None of the advanced search options seemed to produce a list of activities ordered by last update. Looking again on the macbook, I see there is a view all recently updated activities which I didn't see on the XO. I don't have an XO handy to re-check whether it really isn't there.
> 
> Thanks testers