[Sugar-devel] custom value for ~/.sugar/default/config (Pilgrim)

2009-07-08 Thread roshan karki
Hi, I am using Pilgrim to make nexo images. I need to use a different timezone and change the default value for hot corners. Those settings are in the file /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config. What to do in Pilgrim so that the xos when flashed contains custom timezone and hot corners.

Re: [Sugar-devel] poor man's mmap sliding window on Python 2.5.x

2009-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:23 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Had some time to retest this on the plane, and I think it was mis-diagnosis. The original code I was testing is lost. In re-testing this I find that the problem is more nuanced, and I may have been wrong: looking at 'top', the kernel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Questions about GConf and ORBit.

2009-07-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 05:32, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, I dug through the gconf, libbonobo, and orbit2 source code and discovered some interesting things. Most relevant for this discussion: * ORBit2, on Linux, defaults to sending messages over unix sockets in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-07-08 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 07/05/2009 10:14 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 07/01/2009 05:38 PM, David Farning wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: On 07/01/2009 12:49 AM, David Farning wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-08 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anurag Goelagoe...@gmail.com wrote: We booted several computers with SoaS and changed the

Re: [Sugar-devel] custom value for ~/.sugar/default/config (Pilgrim)

2009-07-08 Thread roshan karki
ok found in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/profile.py On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:59 AM, roshan karki ros...@olenepal.org wrote: Hi, I am using Pilgrim to make nexo images. I need to use a different timezone and change the default value for hot corners. Those settings are in the file

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Dave Bauerdave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: OK, we can workaround this two ways, Use schoolserver as the jabber server name in the settings then 1) set the IP in /etc/hosts as a quick hack to make sure things work 2) set up the SoaS to use the built in DNS on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Dave Bauerdave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: OK, we can workaround this two ways, Use schoolserver as the jabber server name in the settings then 1) set the IP in /etc/hosts as a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 12:51:43PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Eben Eliasone...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 3 Jul 2009, at 10:01, Martin Langhoff wrote: Wishlist: show files by size filter

[Sugar-devel] Add ability to record to Speak?

2009-07-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, We worked with 3rd going into 4th graders at the GPA in Boston today making memorize games using social studies terms. The kids drew pictures and added them to the memorize game. The kids are very interested in making the computer talk. The lab computers (this is SoaS not XO) have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Add ability to record to Speak?

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:55:36PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi, We worked with 3rd going into 4th graders at the GPA in Boston today making memorize games using social studies terms. The kids drew pictures and added them to the memorize game. The kids are very interested in making

[Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
We used paint at the GPA today and some of the kids did amazing things with it. Others were pretty frustrated. http://picasaweb.google.com/solutiongrove/GPARoom33Paint?authkey=Gv1sRgCJzK6r_1zsalLg# The program needs some love though. Is there anyone who would like to work on improving it this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:11:02PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: We used paint at the GPA today and some of the kids did amazing things with it. Others were pretty frustrated. http://picasaweb.google.com/solutiongrove/GPARoom33Paint?authkey=Gv1sRgCJzK6r_1zsalLg# The program needs some love

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on Beagle board.

2009-07-08 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi Elena, On Irc bernie was telling me that you might have some written documentation about how to install Sugar on the beagle board, I'm kind of investigating this kind of enviroments for Sugar solutions, so i was wondering if you can share the documentation with us? it would be very useful.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Introduction and question about introducing Sugar development

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
(I guess I forgot to change cc list) On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:29:16PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On 07/08/09 22:45, Steve Dalton wrote: I started having a look at the speak app - this is perhaps something I could maintain. Sure. alsroot is listed as the current maintainer, but he's

Re: [Sugar-devel] prep for an article

2009-07-08 Thread Jeff Elkner
Ann, Luke tells me that: 1. The chats are stored in the journal, but we don't know if there is an easy way to move them to a flash drive (Luke is trying as I type). 2. Alt-1 puts a screen shot in the journal. We can drag it to a USB stick from there. Good questions... Thanks! jeff On Wed,

Re: [Sugar-devel] prep for an article

2009-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
You can also upload pictures from the Journal to the web. -walter On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote: Ann, Luke tells me that: 1. The chats are stored in the journal, but we don't know if there is an easy way to move them to a flash drive (Luke is trying as

Re: [Sugar-devel] prep for an article

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:54:35PM -0400, Jeff Elkner wrote: Ann, Luke tells me that: 1. The chats are stored in the journal, but we don't know if there is an easy way to move them to a flash drive (Luke is trying as I type). Chat object is a plane text object with chat history so, it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:11:02PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: We used paint at the GPA today and some of the kids did amazing things with it.

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
To follow up on an off list discussion with Martin. The OLPC use case assumes top down support. OLPC perfers to sell in bulk to Governments. Sugar on a Stick complements this with a bottom up approach. Thus our use case is how can we support a teacher with some computers in their room but

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Caroline Meeks wrote: 1. Fix Jabber collaboration - We have a mysterious bug (that is also being worked on in parallel) that keeps dropping the connection to the externally hosted Jabber Server (jabber.sl.org) That's irritating. Have you tried other servers? For example,

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: 1. Fix Jabber collaboration - We have a mysterious bug (that is also being worked on in parallel) that keeps dropping the connection to the externally hosted Jabber Server

Re: [Sugar-devel] DNS Mischief

2009-07-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote:  d) rewrite as an NSS module?  e) rewrite in an external DNS resolver? Either of these would make it much easier to play with your patch, eliminating the whole now recompile your C library from scratch step. ;-) (d) would

Re: [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:41:33PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Nod, I've done that for Memorize and maybe we will for Paint too. It will take some thought to get it right and I've got a lot on my plate right now. Worth it if it turns into code but right now I'm wondering

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jul 2009, at 00:13, Caroline Meeks wrote: Specifically for the GPA We have 18 computers. Wired to the internet, we don't know the details. We are trying to bring in another computer, install the XS for it and put it beside the existing computers. For this summer we would be

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
My laptop (jhbuild) and Classmate (running the same Strawberry version of SoaS) both connected to the jabber server and were stable on the same network as the other machines. -walter On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 9 Jul 2009, at 00:13, Caroline

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Paint improvements?

2009-07-08 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: For our work at the GPA, where we have full sized screens, I think Tuxpaint is superior. I know the teachers really care about the automatic save though. The kids have a lot of trouble saving and its heart

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jul 2009, at 01:20, Walter Bender wrote: My laptop (jhbuild) and Classmate (running the same Strawberry version of SoaS) both connected to the jabber server and were stable on the same network as the other machines. Well that's good news I guess :-) Is the SoaS for your Classmate on

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:13:26PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: So in our use case we can't get any entries into the existing DNS. You might have already considered this, but I wanted to make sure you know about this option: The existing DNS [server] doesn't (necessarily) mean the current

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas on XO-1 vs activation

2009-07-08 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:08:26PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: - With your devkey installed, use the 'disable-security' procedure. Once it's done, OFW remembers it and your XO is free as a bird, permanently. After disable-security, can I forget about activation?

Re: [Sugar-devel] DNS Mischief

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote: d) rewrite as an NSS module? e) rewrite in an external DNS resolver? Either of these would make it much easier to play with your patch, eliminating the whole now recompile your C library from scratch step. ;-) Pff. It

[Sugar-devel] Bug tracker enhancements

2009-07-08 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, Our current trac instance is missing some basic functionality: - versions per component: a really simple enhancement would be to have a text field (maybe some versions (sugar core) you can select from) but that we do not have to keep the list updated for each activity - milestones should