The kind people at OLPC sent me a XO and the last week has been busy getting familiar with the system. Anyway, I updated it to the latest dev build (1525) and can no longer load projects into the Etoys image. Anybody else experiencing this ?
Karl
The kind people at OLPC sent me a XO and the last week has been busy getting familiar with the system.
Cool!
Anyway, I updated it to the latest dev build (1525) and can no longer load projects into the Etoys image. Anybody else experiencing this ?
Not really. I'm also on 1525 and tried the examples in ExampleEtoys, projects from FileList, and also from Journal and all of them works. Does it do something with non-ASCII file names or such? Can you explain a bit more?
-- Yoshiki
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
The kind people at OLPC sent me a XO and the last week has been busy getting familiar with the system.
Cool!
It's a very nice machine. Quite a bit smaller than I had imagined. Keyboard only good for two finger typing :-) For my 5 year old daughter it is a nice size . I loaded some pdf on it to read in bed and that was very nice :-)
Anyway, I updated it to the latest dev build (1525) and can no longer load projects into the Etoys image. Anybody else experiencing this ?
Not really. I'm also on 1525 and tried the examples in ExampleEtoys, projects from FileList, and also from Journal and all of them works. Does it do something with non-ASCII file names or such? Can you explain a bit more?
Further investigation indicate a problem in the Journal. Each new attempt to load a project makes a new entry in the hierarchy of the journal linux directory with a other project I have stored. All attempts to load any Etoy project make a new entries with that other project. I'm a bit confused as most of the Sugar and Journal stuff is new to me. While the Journal is quite compelling in concept it leaves a few things to be desired. One is that associations to activities is quite hard to change or make. That leaves the option to dig trough the obscure file hierarchy...
Anyway, I tried to update to joyride 1526 yesterday and it complained about some checksums or other issues and refused to upgrade, so it is something wrong with the whole system :-(
I have to figure that out first, and maybe the Etoy error goes away :-)
Karl
It turned out to be a issue with the whole installation. After flashing ram and reinstalling most stuff seem to work. Karl
Karl wrote:
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
The kind people at OLPC sent me a XO and the last week has been busy getting familiar with the system.
Cool!
It's a very nice machine. Quite a bit smaller than I had imagined. Keyboard only good for two finger typing :-) For my 5 year old daughter it is a nice size . I loaded some pdf on it to read in bed and that was very nice :-)
Anyway, I updated it to the latest dev build (1525) and can no longer load projects into the Etoys image. Anybody else experiencing this ?
Not really. I'm also on 1525 and tried the examples in ExampleEtoys, projects from FileList, and also from Journal and all of them works. Does it do something with non-ASCII file names or such? Can you explain a bit more?
Further investigation indicate a problem in the Journal. Each new attempt to load a project makes a new entry in the hierarchy of the journal linux directory with a other project I have stored. All attempts to load any Etoy project make a new entries with that other project. I'm a bit confused as most of the Sugar and Journal stuff is new to me. While the Journal is quite compelling in concept it leaves a few things to be desired. One is that associations to activities is quite hard to change or make. That leaves the option to dig trough the obscure file hierarchy...
Anyway, I tried to update to joyride 1526 yesterday and it complained about some checksums or other issues and refused to upgrade, so it is something wrong with the whole system :-(
I have to figure that out first, and maybe the Etoy error goes away :-)
Karl
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On Jan 11, 2008, at 23:26 , Karl wrote:
It turned out to be a issue with the whole installation. After flashing ram and reinstalling most stuff seem to work.
Glad to hear that :)
Please test and report back on the Journal integration though. We have not had much feedback, though I think it is less than perfect. There is only one serious bug open:
https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5348
- Bert -
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 23:26 , Karl wrote:
It turned out to be a issue with the whole installation. After flashing ram and reinstalling most stuff seem to work.
Glad to hear that :)
Please test and report back on the Journal integration though. We have not had much feedback, though I think it is less than perfect. There is only one serious bug open:
I can confirm this bug. I'm not sure what to do about it, though.
It seems Journal needs some more work. Modal file opening is good if it works, not so much when it does not.
But I applaud the effort of trying a different approach to storage. And a few issues are probably ok, given that even Microsoft had to give up their effort to improve this area :-)
Karl
On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:40 , Karl wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 23:26 , Karl wrote:
It turned out to be a issue with the whole installation. After flashing ram and reinstalling most stuff seem to work.
Glad to hear that :)
Please test and report back on the Journal integration though. We have not had much feedback, though I think it is less than perfect. There is only one serious bug open:
I can confirm this bug. I'm not sure what to do about it, though.
No worries, I know what the problem is.
It seems Journal needs some more work. Modal file opening is good if it works, not so much when it does not.
But I applaud the effort of trying a different approach to storage. And a few issues are probably ok, given that even Microsoft had to give up their effort to improve this area :-)
Hopefully ... I'm at OLPC this week to discuss exactly this.
- Bert -
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