Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-22 Thread linaccess
Hello Bernardo, All, I wonder about shipping DejaVuLGC, too. I ask the same questions a few weeks ago on #olpc / #sugar but didn't get an answer. Ok, it is irc and not a mailinglist. Thanks for posting it here. IMHO we should try to switch from DejaVuLGC to DejaVu. Frontiers are not perforce

Use-case for turning off display smoothing

2007-08-22 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
I'm thinking about syntax coloring. In cases like this, it is more important to be able to see *whether* something is colored than to see what color it is. Even with no backlight, the diagonal banding would give you that information; the smoothing, by reducing that banding, would be getting in the

Re: X trapezoids rendering performance

2007-08-22 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
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Re: Use-case for turning off display smoothing

2007-08-22 Thread Walter Bender
We should alway make sure that there is some value contrast in our color choices so that (a) things will work in reflective mode and (b) those with color vision deficiencies can still see important distinctions. -walter On 8/22/07, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Jameson

Re: Use-case for turning off display smoothing

2007-08-22 Thread Eben Eliason
Use of bold, italic, and underline for syntax highlighting can also be effective in conjunction with color/value differences. - Eben On 8/22/07, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should alway make sure that there is some value contrast in our color choices so that (a) things will

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2007-08-22 Thread Mike Usmar
OK, hopefully this is an easy question I want to upgrade to build 542, and have the downloaded and un zipped to a UDB drive in boot the olpc-auto.zip, and the latest OS image and .crc file, so in the boot directory I have 6 files q2c24.rom; os542.img; os542.crc; usbupgos.img, usbupgrd.img, and

Re: no subject

2007-08-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
Mike Usmar wrote: OK, hopefully this is an easy question I want to upgrade to build 542, and have the downloaded and un zipped to a UDB drive in boot the olpc-auto.zip, and the latest OS image and .crc file, so in the boot directory I have 6 files q2c24.rom; os542.img; os542.crc;

Re: no subject

2007-08-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
In any case, the recipe to fix it is to do the firmware upgrade first, manually: ok flash /usb/disk:\boot\q2c25.rom After that you will have up-to-date firmware and the rest of the installation will probably go smoothly. Mike Usmar wrote: OK, hopefully this is an easy question I want to

Anti-theft traceback on booting 553

2007-08-22 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Trying to boot build 553 in a VirtualBox environment (testing fix in [1]), I see a failure in the activation code (I'm copying this manually): /antitheft.py, line 17, in run from initutil import activate_fail ImportError: cannot import name activate_fail which suggests that even if

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-22 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Sergey Udaltsov wrote: When you replace simplified fonts with the full version: are you able to input Ethiopean with the code provided? I assumed it would, but now I installed the dejavu-fonts RPM and the Ethiopean glyphs still don't display neither in the Write activity, nor in the Web