• Moved to Sugar Labs
• Dedication
• Introduction
• I discovered this discovery
• Discovery: Preparation
• Discovery: Open your XO
• Discovery: Buttons and bits
• Discovery: Turn XO on, and observe
• Discovery: Turn XO on and start trying things
• Discovery: Button functions
• Discovery: Other bits of the XO
• Discovery: Icon Ring
• Discovery: List view
• Discovery: Help
• Discovery: Frame
• Discovery: Wireless networking
• Discovery: Browse
• Discovery: Good questions
• Discovery: Journal
• Discovery: Record
• Discovery: Paint
• Discovery: Write
• Discovery: Collaboration
• Discovery: Frame Again
• The Undiscoverable: Terminal
• Discovery: Utility Menu
• Pause
• Discovery: More Activities
• Discovery: Puzzles
• Discovery: Games
• Discovery: Turtle Art
• Discovery: Calculate
• Discovery: Measure
• Discovery: Etoys
• Discovery: Music
• What do I want to discover?
• Discovering childhood education
• Discovery: Hints
• Resources
• Discovery: Glossary

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Discovery: List view

There is a group of four keys on the XO keyboard just above the 2 3 4 5 keys. Three have dot patterns and one has a rectangle. You were supposed to try them all out and see what they did, and you are supposed to have a lot of questions about what you encountered. Now we are going to explore the consequences of the key with one dot on it, between the key with three dots and the one with a rectangle. When you press the one-dot key, you see something like this.

Figure 9-1 Home View

Click the rightmost icon at the top of the screen, the one with the parallel lines in a circle. Now you see something like this.

 Figure 9-2 List View

You should have been here before, and you should have questions. Go back to the other view, the Home View, by clicking the icon with a dot in a circle, and then to the List View again.

But here I have a new task for you. What questions might I ask of you at this point? What discoveries might I be leading you to? Think about it a bit. Make a list. Don't worry that you can't think of everything, or that you might be wrong. What would you ask somebody at this point?

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Right. Have a nice long list of questions? Excellent. Compare them with these.

• What are the controls in the top bar for?
  
• What happens when you point the cursor at them?
• What happens when you click them?
• Then what?
  
• Does anything in this view affect the Home View?
  
• Most of the screen is taken up by five columns. What is that about?
• What can you tell about the stars in the leftmost column? What happens when you point at one? When you click one? 
• Do you recognize the icons in the second column? What happens when you point at them or click them?
  
• What are the numbers in the third column for? Point? Click? Questions?
  
• The fourth column has time intervals, perhaps in hours, days, or years. What is that about? Point? Click? Nothing? No problem.
  
• Did you see any menus? What do the choices do? (I don't recommend trying Erase at this point. Can you tell why?)
• Any places where you can enter text? What happens? Do you understand? How about when you start to erase what you typed with the Erase key?
  
• What's the grey and white line at the far right? Point? Click? Both parts? Click and drag?
  

That will do for now. How did you do on making your own question list? How many questions did you answer? Do you have any ideas about how to find answers to other questions?

The Undiscoverable: I'll give you one for free. Column three has the version number of the activity on that line. That's documented in the Sugar Labs Wiki and in the FLOSS Manuals manual for Sugar. Nothing is supposed to happen when you click them.