<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
<br>
<br>I've been running joyride-2225 with what I believe to be the latest
versions (as per the update software functionality of the
sugar-control-panel) of some core activities. In the past half hour I
have stumbled across some issues that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere
else so I thought I'd share them:
<br>
<br>a) Record: using v56 the activity starts up fine, the display shows
whatever the camera is capturing, I can go into fullscreen-mode, switch
to different tabs, etc. However once I press the "capture"-button the
whole thing basically freezes, sometimes I was still able to move the
mouse but clicking wouldn't have any impact, at other times Sugar
completely froze and I had to do a hard reset of the XO.
<br>b) TurtleArt: v7 is missing an "l" in the activity title so we're
looking at "TurteArt"
<br>c) Read: This activity is only useful if started by clicking on a file
with a mime-type that's associated to read. However it still shows up in
the list view of the home-view even though you actually can't do
anything with it once you start it. The <a href="http://activity.info">activity.info</a> file has the
"show_launcher" property to define that behavior, not sure whether in
this case it's simply set wrongly in the read .info or whether the
list-view presently ignores this attribute.
<br>Another odd issue is that when you open read from the list / favorites
view and you then want to close it you're presented with a "keep error"
message which seems quite useless considering the fact that no activity
/ file was actually resumed. Again, not sure whether that's an issue
with read or the underlying Journal structure.
<br>d) Brightness adjustment: up to 708 and most earlier joyrides that I
have used in the past weeks allowed you to immediatly turn of the
backlight by pressing ctrl + reduce brightness button. With joyride-2225
this doesn't work anymore.
<br>
<br>Let me know what you think.
<br>
<br>Cheers,
<br>Christoph
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>Co-Editor, OLPCnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>
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