[Testing] Info slice version 8

Aleksey Lim alsroot at member.fsf.org
Mon May 31 09:28:50 EDT 2010


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:48:56PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 04:30:35PM +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> > attached image (assume this will be stripped out of testing mail but
> > hopefully you get it James)
> > I dont get the browse one, just the info slicer icon in the journal, tried
> > changing info slicer activity name, hence the second one in journal. nothing
> > monochrome.
> 
> 
> > In browse activity under books we see other books but not ours. No info
> > slicer activity either in the browse books bit.
> 
> What you mean by "In browse activity under books we see other books but
> not ours" can only work in XO distribution (if it doesn't it could be sugar fail,
> but it works fine in my OS802 VM case). Any way, the major InfoSlicer workflow
> is opening by click in Journal (it will work in all sugar envs).
> 
> Not sure it doesn't work in your case, try to create new profile/remove
> existed and run InfoSlicer with empty Journal.

I forgot that sugar-0.82 will place your InfoSlicer article to Browse's
books only after installing .xol i.e. after clicking on newly created
.xol in journal.

> 
> > 
> > Tabitha
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 31 May 2010 16:12, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 03:50:21PM +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> > > > On 31 May 2010 15:41, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > > > > What I had to do was get an article from Wikipedia, click on the
> > > > > Edit tab and drag sentences across, click on the Library tab and
> > > > > click on the tick next to the article name in the Custom list on the
> > > > > bottom right of screen, then click on the "Publish selected
> > > > > articles" on the top right of the screen.
> > > >
> > > > we see the publish selected article (and have selected an article) and
> > > > we get an info slicer journal entry
> > >
> > > There are two types of InfoSlicer journal entries.  Which one are you
> > > referring to?
> > >
> > > One type has a monochrome icon and a description "This is a bundle
> > > containing articles on InfoSlicer Activity.  To view these articles,
> > > open the 'Browse' Activity, Go to 'Books', and select 'InfoSlicer
> > > Activity'."
> > >
> > > However, this type of journal entry just works if you ignore those
> > > instructions and just click on it.  Browse shows the content.
> > >
> > > The other type of journal entry has an icon with the user's colour pick,
> > > an empty description, and a preview showing an InfoSlicer screenshot.
> > > Just clicking on this journal entry opens InfoSlicer and restores state.
> > >
> > > This seems to be working nicely, though I've no idea if it is working
> > > properly.
> > >
> > > > > This created a journal entry which opened in Browse with the static
> > > > > content that I had selected.
> > > >
> > > > when we open the journal entry it just opens info slicer not browse
> > >
> > > This seems to be working properly.  You should have a different journal
> > > entry containing the published articles.  Make sure you click on the
> > > correct entry.
> > >
> > > > > I can't comment on tutorials and instructions, 'cause I don't know
> > > > > which ones you are referring to.  Perhaps they have lagged behind
> > > > > activity development.
> > > >
> > > > we looked at the sugarlabs activity page and the wiki.laptop.org
> > > > activity page
> > >
> > > Could you be more specific please?  Give me a URL.  I can't be sure I'm
> > > looking at the same thing.
> > >
> > > I've looked at activities.sugarlabs.org and it refers to
> > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/InfoSlicer ... and the
> > > screenshots there are certainly inconsistent with what InfoSlicer-8
> > > looks like on XO-1.5.
> > >
> > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/a/ad/Infoslicer-tutorial.pdf is dated
> > > 31st January 2009, and also uses a different toolbar.
> > >
> > > This is consistent with development going ahead of documentation.  I
> > > sense an opportunity.
> > >
> > > --
> > > James Cameron
> > > http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> > >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Aleksey

-- 
Aleksey


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