From: bernie Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:07:58 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Edit page blog/2010/03 X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0e39c37b24e1f8ba196513dccbf6a0ffe3cdc4c;p=wiki.git Edit page blog/2010/03 --- diff --git a/blog/2010/03 b/blog/2010/03 index 422d353..51d0294 100644 --- a/blog/2010/03 +++ b/blog/2010/03 @@ -74,19 +74,7 @@ testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities. || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Cyber Nick, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} || -A few days ago, Fernando the owner of the Caacupe XO support center, wrote to us: - -{{{ -El 8 de marzo de 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés escribió: -> Como va la migración a Fedora 11 hasta ahora? -> Número aproximado de máquinas actualizadas? - -Raúl, la verdad que todo bien hasta ahora, los chicos están muy entusiasmados con la -nueva versión, y hacen correr la voz, creo que unos 120 equipos ya lo hicimos hasta -ahora más o menos. -}}} - -Google translation with my corrctions: +A few days ago, Fernando the owner of the Caacupe XO support center, wrote (Google translation with some corrctions): {{{ On March 8 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: @@ -94,8 +82,8 @@ On March 8 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: > of machines to date? Raul, the truth that it's going smooth so far, the boys are very excited -about the new version, and the rumor is spreading fast. I think so far -my team updated 120 laptops, more or less. +about the new version, and the rumor is spreading fast. +I think so far my team updated 120 laptops, more or less. }}} I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children are lining up in front of Cyber Nick's @@ -115,20 +103,22 @@ with a really cool screensaver. Quick! Let's add all this crap to Sugar! :-) Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal more to kids? By now, I think I've observed -our young users closely enough to be able to predict what they're really after: - -More configurabiity. +our young users closely enough to be able to guess what they're really missing in Sugar: -{{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hiding behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }} +
+Configurability. +
Yeah, dozen of scientific studies showed how users almost never customize the desktops beyond setting a background image. Kids, however, are a lot more passionate about their precious -laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// customize the exterior of -their laptops with stickers. +laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// cover the exterior of +their laptops with colorful stickers. + +|| {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hide behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }} || {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00050.jpg | maxwidth=480 || }} -Believe it or not, many of these kids set the random icon layout (aka "the Negroponte layout"), -because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in clever ways. I could take screenshot -to prove it. +Believe it or not, many of these kids also set their Home View with the random icon layout +(aka "the Negroponte layout"), because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in +clever ways. I could take screenshot to prove it. And what was the gray color scale in our UI supposed to mean? I was explained it once, and it seemed to make sense, but I forgot. And, whatver the reason was, kids are unlikely to agree