Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Extending activity microformat spec to include optional olpc_activity_size

2010-11-20 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Anish Mangal's message of Sat Nov 20 06:59:36 +0100 2010: Let's keep the discussion exclusively on sugar-devel, please. Cross-posting can cause thread fragmentation. I also don't see any value in discussing all Dextrose-related technical decisions on two lists in parallel. I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] ObjectChooser() Issue?

2010-11-20 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Art Hunkins's message of Sat Nov 20 05:13:30 +0100 2010: I think I may have answered my previous question: Feature unavailable in Sugar 0.82. FWIW, I think this is the right thing to do from a development PoV. The wording is fine, too. It will also increase the incentive for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Extending activity microformat spec to include optional olpc_activity_size

2010-11-20 Thread Anish Mangal
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Anish Mangal's message of Sat Nov 20 06:59:36 +0100 2010: Let's keep the discussion exclusively on sugar-devel, please. Cross-posting can cause thread fragmentation. I also don't see any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar UI Dictator

2010-11-20 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:06:56AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Martin and I talked for bit this evening and I believe that I managed to persuade him to support my [UI Dictator team] proposal. I do, for the reasons mentioned in Michael's key arguments. P.S. - Later [...] we discovered a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Engineering Team

2010-11-20 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 04:27:49AM +, Martin Dengler wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:53:06AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, (Just trying to summarize previous discussions, including recent one on #sugar with some kind of motion) = The problem = [...] = Engineering

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar UI Dictator

2010-11-20 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:06:56AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Martin and I talked for bit this evening and I believe that I managed to persuade him to support my [UI Dictator team] proposal. I do, for the reasons

Re: [Sugar-devel] Engineering Team

2010-11-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 November 2010 02:53, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: = The problem = Current situation with stuck patches queue is dangerous. Deployments have to support their own big branches (branches, by themselves, is not bad but big ones), at last I know about Dextrose. Such splitting

Re: [Sugar-devel] Engineering Team

2010-11-20 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:29:13PM +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 20 November 2010 02:53, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: = The problem = Current situation with stuck patches queue is dangerous. Deployments have to support their own big branches (branches, by themselves, is not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar UI Dictator

2010-11-20 Thread Barbara Barry
As an advocate for Sugar in the field in my work, I'm chiming in to support Walter's point. What might help Sugar is a designer who can articulate a strong design point of view by understanding the needs of the users and translating them, guided by the Sugar core design principles, into a plan

Re: [Sugar-devel] Engineering Team

2010-11-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 November 2010 14:38, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: If OLPC doesn't shipp downstream patches thats relly good but I guess it is because last stable OLPC sugar is 0.84 and that OLPC people are maints of 0.84 branches. Dextrose has patches that are collected based on responce

[Sugar-devel] IRC-7 on updated Soas-v3-mirabelle possible Bug?

2010-11-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Hello: alsroot said to contact you about the Control Panel Activity upgrade to IRC-7 I just did for Soas-v3-Mirabelle in Virtual box on a MacBook Air. IRC -7 works well as it starts in #sugar. I can talk/receive then I do a /join #sugar-meeting. and it talks I then shut down the activity. I

Re: [Sugar-devel] ObjectChooser() Issue?

2010-11-20 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: One more question: This code tests for the presence of an XO-1 (thanks originally to Walter):  if os.path.exists(/sys/power/olpc-pm): Normally this is also a test for Sugar 0.82. I want, however, also to test for Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar UI Dictator

2010-11-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 20 Nov 2010, at 09:32, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:06:56AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Martin and I talked for bit this evening and I believe that I managed to persuade him to support my [UI Dictator team] proposal. I do, for the reasons mentioned in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar UI Dictator

2010-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 at 09:32:53 +, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:06:56AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: P.S. - Later [...] we discovered a confusion about the mandate of the proposed committee; to wit: Is the main purpose of the committee to act as a UI Maintainer (e.g.,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar UI Dictator

2010-11-20 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 at 09:32:53 +, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:06:56AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: P.S. - Later [...] we discovered a confusion about the mandate of the proposed committee; to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH] Feature Request added : Kill the Mute function by clicking on the speaker icon.

2010-11-20 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 11:17 +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: Yes, I prefer as well the term remove over kill in commit messages. Please reference as well the ticket if there is one at the end of the commit message (e.g. Remove mute toggle #1234). Can we switch to the convention of adding a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] IRC-7 on updated Soas-v3-mirabelle possible Bug?

2010-11-20 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:07:00PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: IRC -7 works well as it starts in #sugar. I can talk/receive then I do a /join #sugar-meeting. and it talks I then shut down the activity. I then resume the activity. The 2 tabs show but i get a */no one to talk to message.

[Sugar-devel] how to use sugar cursors not in gdk cursor?

2010-11-20 Thread Erik Blankinship
Since HAND_OPEN in sugar http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-artwork/mainline/blobs/master/cursor/sugar/sugar-00.png http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-artwork/mainline/blobs/master/cursor/sugar/sugar.cursortheme is not available here: http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkcursor.html How do I use