[Testing] Testing summary - 10 January 2009

[Mohit Taneja]

>
> Food Force II
>
Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing countries
> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of
> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but does
> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen are
> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons at
> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when trying
> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are now"
> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village).
> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than local? We
> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing this
> improve.
>

Hi,

I would firstly like to thank you guys for your comments.

Well definitely, I accept that moving the screen by making the mouse go
towards the edges is a problem, one reaason being that the control buttons
are within their range also in some cases it leads to the frame being showed
when one takes the mouse pointer to a particular edge. We would work on
making the requisite changes.

Also, it would be great to show the exact location of the player on the mini
map (right hand side - middle ).

And surely working on efficiency is always a priority.

Regards,

Mohit Taneja

Developer
Food Force II


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabitha.roder at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello
>
> Thanks to Ian Thomson for coming along and talking to everyone about
> Oceania deployments. There were lots of fantastic talks today with a diverse
> group of people present. We are hoping to hear some kiwi's could be
> volunteering in the Pacific Islands over the next few months - fingers
> crossed funds can be found.
>
> Who came: Carl, Ian, Edward, Murray, Brenda, Callum, Uli, Jonathan, Kaleb,
> Joshhua, Aida, Tabitha, Aaron, Douglas, Queenie
>
> Food Force II
> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing countries
> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of
> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but does
> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen are
> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons at
> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when trying
> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are now"
> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village).
> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than local? We
> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing this
> improve.
>
> Chat
> Today we had bonjour chat on Ubuntu (pidgin on 8.10 and 8.4) talking to the
> XOs without issue. Intiating a chat from Ubuntu to the XOs would pop up a
> chat icon, which clicking on would start a Chat application. However, a OS X
> macbook with (using ichat bonjour) could see the XO's, but would return the
> error message "Instant Message connection failed. The other person's
> computer may not be reachable." Also, there is no way for an XO to initiate
> a chat, or see non-XO computers using the bonjour chat protocol.
>
> Plans for next couple of weeks -
> Next Saturday 17 January - learn how to pull apart your XO and put it back
> together (thanks Callum, our resident expert in XO repairs) - at The Cross
> Tuesday 27 January - meet Walter Bender, SugarLabs founder - further
> details to come but can say it will be at Catalyst offices in Willis Street
> One day soon - update from Andrew McMillan on OLPC presentations at Linux
> Conference (February?)
> One day soon - Martin Langhoff update on School server and python for sugar
> programming sessions (February?)
>
> Feel free to invite others.
>
> To keep up to date with what the New Zealand OLPC volunteers are doing,
> subscribe to olpc-nz at lists.laptop.org by going to
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz
>
> Have a fantastic week!
>
> Kind regards
> Tabitha Roder
>
> (64)21482229
>
> Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo
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