PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Not sure it has been reported. I looks to me (from update.1) the PDF reader is not user friendly, especially when one want to read book in portrait format, full screen and navigate from page to page (pressing one button to move next/previous page). I found the operation to achieve to this not

New joyride build 1593

2008-01-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1593 Changes in build 1593 from build: 1591 Size delta: 0M -xdg-utils 1.0.2-3.fc7 +xdg-utils 1.0.2-4.fc7 --- Changes for xdg-utils 1.0.2-4.fc7 from 1.0.2-3.fc7 --- + Fix for CVE-2008-0386 (#429513) -- This mail was automatically

Re: New update.1 build 690

2008-01-26 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday 25 January 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build690 Changes in build 690 from build: 689 Size delta: 0M -ohm 0.1.1-6.4.20080119git.fc7 +ohm 0.1.1-6.6.20080119git.fc7 -bootfw q2d08a-1.olpc2 +bootfw q2d10-1.olpc2.unsigned

Re: 'development' et al.

2008-01-26 Thread Ed Montgomery
Re: see quoted below, etc. Ah, kids these days...young whippersnappers...;-) How about doing some work on DSLinux? ;-) (i.e. linux for the Nintendo DS...about 4 megs ram to work with, etc.) Now THERE'S a challenge! :-) You should be whipping bits around at light speed with 256 megs

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Carol Lerche
On a related topic, I'd like to mention how beautifully a docbook formatted document looks (with a simple css) when read in browse. Given the prevalence of this format, I think it would be beneficial to special-case a mapping of the game keys to understand the links that are conventionally

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Eben Eliason
Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging exactly one screen height seems most logical to me, as there's no guarantee that a full page fits on

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Karl
Eben Eliason wrote: Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging exactly one screen height seems most logical to me, as there's no

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging exactly one screen height seems

Re: XOs B4 and USB-SVGA adapters

2008-01-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:38 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote: Hi all, I am trying to use a USB-SVGA adapter based on the SiS 35x chips with a XO Beta4. It seems like even with an external USB hub which is externally powered, the SVGA adapter does not received enough power, which I find

Re: OLPC wifi interrupts wireless internet connection of _other_ laptop

2008-01-26 Thread Oliver
Because of you comment on router possibly not being able to deal with a certain number of wireless clients, I get that you seem to have a lot of wireless clients. Is that the case? If you have other clients are they working ok when the XO is on? thought about that but it's not the problem as

Re: OLPC News 2008-01-26

2008-01-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Bender wrote: 5. Batteries: Carla Gomez Monroy reports from Mongolia that the batteries are not lasting as long as expected. The extreme cold was the first suspect. Richard had Carla collect data via olpc-logbat and ran some tests of his

Re: OLPC News 2008-01-26

2008-01-26 Thread linaccess
nice idea. the heater could be an add on, just for the extrem cold areas. yokoy On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:22:57 -0500 Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Bender wrote: 5. Batteries: Carla Gomez Monroy reports from Mongolia that

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Chas. Owens wrote: On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. Could you provide some justification for this approach?

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread linaccess
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the OLPC software should not be any different. in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO software should be better and

firmware q2d10

2008-01-26 Thread david
--- Changes for bootfw q2d10-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2d08a-1.olpc2 --- + update to q2d10 this is an unsigned image + OFW is rev 791 + EC is pq2d10 + OLPC keyboard selftest - Added game key display and timeout after + OLPC keyboard selftest - Changed from scanset 2 to scanset 1, so +

Multi-protocol (gtalk, yahoo, aim, msn, etc) chat

2008-01-26 Thread Oliver
Hi, i modified the latest version of the excellent InstantBird (www.instantbird.com) chat client to adjust the UI for the XO and it makes a pretty good chat client for AiM, GTalk, MSN and so on. It's based on libpurple for the IM connectivity and uses xulrunner for the UI. Check it out here:

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the OLPC software should not be any different. in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with

Re: school server and content

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Jan 27, 2008 5:08 AM, sulochan acharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to add to Bryan's email about our plans for the school server in Nepal, and how we might wanna manage content so that it is easier for kids to use the XO with the server. Hi Sulo, I think your ideas match the

Re: Moodle for School Server and Content

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi V.Nagarajan, On the technical side, there will be no problem getting Moodle on the XS. Well tuned, it can work very well on limited HW, and the XS won't have any problem with it. On the good fit aspect, see my other email -- the plan is to cut it down, simplify the UI and align it with Sugar

Re: What does 'Register' do for a G1G1 user?

2008-01-26 Thread ffm
On Jan 26, 2008 7:00 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'Register' that shows up on the drop-down menu on the Home view - I always thought it was for a pupil to register with his school server. But I have a G1G1, and __no__ school. [I don't have any wireless, either.] Is

Re: New update.1 build 690

2008-01-26 Thread Kim Quirk
I can't log into my simple WEP at home with this build...and I have had many builds where this has worked just fine, so I'm confident it is the build. Does anyone know why this is so broken in 690? Will we be able to get a fix? Trac item: 6123 Kim On Jan 26, 2008 10:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg

New joyride build 1597

2008-01-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1597 Changes in build 1597 from build: 1593 Size delta: 0M -libicu 3.6-18.fc7 +libicu 3.6-20.fc7 -vim-minimal 2:7.1.12-1.fc7 +vim-minimal 2:7.1.211-1.fc7 -- This mail was automatically generated See