From: bernie Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:07:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Edit page blog/2010/03 X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=52ec006be431da88270453cb85dc1c5807ccd0e3 Edit page blog/2010/03 --- diff --git a/blog/2010/03 b/blog/2010/03 index 6cf0c1f..e580777 100644 --- a/blog/2010/03 +++ b/blog/2010/03 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ learning it on their own driven by their own passion. * B: The "Snake" game * N: Strategic games * A: ...hmm... - * Mom: They need an automatic spell checker + * (Mom: They need an automatic spell checker... and a **screensaver**, of course). * **What's the most annoying problem for you with Sugar?** * B: Can't use the "robot" function in //Ablar con Sara// ( @@ -95,18 +95,19 @@ FG I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children start lining up outside of CATS' door early in the morning, and keep coming all day long, until the evening. All of them ask -for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said: "Quiero poner ventanas -coloradas" (I want colored windows). They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop, -also known as "salva pantallas" (screensaver). +for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said: -Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "Ahora tienen Windows!" -(now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windoews. + "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want colored windows). + +They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop, also known as "//salva pantallas//" (screensaver). +Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "//Ahora tienen Windows!//" +(now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windows. Power of brand. It doesn't rmatter if it's the actual Windows, or even if it really does -something useful. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it also comes -with a really cool screensaver. +anything useful at all. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it +also comes with a screensaver which makes it irresistible. -Quick! Let's add all this crap to Sugar! :-) +So, what do we do? Quick! Let's add a cool screensaver 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 guess what they're really missing in Sugar: