Re: [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jerry Vonau m...@jvonau.ca wrote: I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue but since Fedora F12 the entire i686 platform's userland is being compiled with -mtune=atom[1] which would use sse[2]. -mtune is designed not to break any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on Write activity: no module named abiword

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Do you have a abiword rpm with introspection enabled? Hint: we use a custom rpm http://harvest.one-education.org/public/au1b-updates/RPMS/abiword-2.9.3-1.git20121011.fc18.olpc12.armv7hl.rpm The error that he's

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO on Fedora 20 (was Re: [GSoC] Porting To Python3)

2014-05-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 May 2014 01:44, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:24:39PM +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote: [...] And with the XO stuck on Fedora 18 we might not have good enough introspection to make

Re: [Sugar-devel] Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

2013-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Basanta, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: Dear all, We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new layout we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply switched the /usr/share/X11/symbols/np

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: Amazingly changing the manufacturing data didn't do the job but changing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard did. Wow! Now I have Nepali input system. Thank you all. Now I need to find a place to change default locale

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Performance: activities start up time

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: One of the arguments of the dynamic bindings was a better startup time due to not need initialize all the libraries until is needed use them. Then the import should be lighter than before. Looks like that is not so true.

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it. Are these keyboards hard/clicky/high-school style, or soft/membrane? Daniel

[Sugar-devel] GeoGebra on 13.2.0

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Has anyone succeeded with the GeoGebra activity on OLPC OS 13.2.0? Using the activity from http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/GeoGebra-5.1.xo Testing on XO-1.75 after yum install java The app usually fails to launch, with an exception that seems to change slightly each time. One

[Sugar-devel] KukuAnakula: handle quit event

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We are looking at deploying Kuku Anakula in Nicaragua, thanks for writing this activity. One problem is that the stop button doesn't actually cause the process to terminate. Notably, the music keeps playing and never stops, even though the activity has disappeared. Here's a hack patch to

[Sugar-devel] Translating etoys home screen

2013-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Bert, Could you advise on how we could translate the etoys home screen to Armenian? I see: http://forum.world.st/How-to-translate-strings-in-Home-pr-td3527757.html However the crucial how to translate link there is broken. The first step in this translation would be to generate a list of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Translating etoys home screen

2013-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick question Daniel, The Armenian translations are relatively new and may not have been committed. Are you working directly from the PO files in Pootle or the EToys repo? The PO files I can manage myself.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Are we ready for code freeze?

2013-09-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I propose we don't freeze and instead we keep releasing 0.99.x every four weeks, until we feel we have done enough testing and bug fixing. This is not what you are supposed to do with time based releases but I'd rather

[Sugar-devel] sugar-build won't start

2013-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Trying to use sugar-build for the first time in a while on F19. I want to avoid creating a F19 chroot inside a F19 install. prefs.json is: {use_broot: false, use_chroot: false} ./osbuild clean git clean -fdx git pull ./osbuild shell Last command fails with: Traceback (most recent call

Re: [Sugar-devel] debugging weird Activity startup errors

2013-08-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm testing locally a scratch build of Abiword 3 with the intent of having it in Fedora for F-20 and hence SoaSv10 but I'm getting a near useless error in the Activity log of: Terminated by signal 11, pid

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-terminal] Use json instead of simplejson

2013-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Probably my mistake. Tell me if you need a new release. That would be useful, thanks. Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] clipboard error with actual sugar

2013-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: The sugar ticket is http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4483 Have links to: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692844 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656312 In the first one, requested include the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-terminal] Use json instead of simplejson

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This code isn't used at the moment due some regressions with the Vte dynamic bindings. I know it breaks the buildbot, so I applied it as 74097db3becc980b68b29b2c51a740934e85adc5 Any chance of this being applied

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-terminal] Use json instead of simplejson

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This code isn't used at the moment due some regressions with the Vte dynamic bindings. I know it breaks the buildbot, so I applied

Re: [Sugar-devel] clipboard error with actual sugar

2013-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Can anybody confirm this? In sugar-build (F18), when I want copy a object from the journal to the clipboard, using the copy menu in the object palette, nothing is copied in the clipboard, and i get the following error

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Landing the chroot branch

2013-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm planning to merge the chroot branch on master. Though, since it's a major change, I'm trying to avoid disruption as much as possible. As a first step, I'm switch the build infrastructure to use that branch. I

[Sugar-devel] Sugar fails to launch in rawhide, missing gwebsockets

2013-07-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Sugar-0.99.0 fails to launch in rawhide. jarabe.main imports apisocket which imports gwebsockets. gwebsockets is a new library developed by us (right?) What are the plans for tarballs, packaging, etc for gwebsockets? Thanks Daniel ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bug in Sugar-Emulator

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Ignacio Rodríguez nachoe...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to run an activity (Jukebox) in GTK3... (Os: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 32bits) You need to update your sugar-toolkit-gtk3 for compatibility with the new pygobject3 version you are running. Daniel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RFC] Content support

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org wrote: I see. So I agree with you Gonzalo, let's not complicate it. Daniel patch is good enough. Yes, I like the simplicity as well. I updated my old feature page with the new version to do this 'officially':

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RFC] Content support

2013-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things that would be needed to fully support content bundles (which I have experimented with creating), would to be able to host them in ASLO, it would also be important to clarify the process of deleting

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundle builder changes broke gtk2 activities

2013-06-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: see this bug for a log http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4527 sugar-activity imports sugar3 stuff, so far that didn't cause gi to be imported I think, but with Daniel changes that's now the case. I didn't change

[Sugar-devel] [RFC] Content support

2013-06-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Content bundles have long been both a crucial part of the OLPC-Sugar offering, and a pain through having some deficiencies. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection They are important because it is the only easy way for a deployment to add pre-made content to Sugar (e.g. books). The

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unstable releases

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: we was supposed to release 0.99.0 today but we have not tarballs to ship because the maintainers have been to busy to deal with that. I already brought this up when we came up with the 0.100 roadmap but let me try

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unstable releases

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. I would appreciate pointers about SoaS development builds. How frequently they are built, what they are based on (F19/F20) etc. I believe they are built automatically, on an almost-nightly basis, for the current

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unstable releases

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: If people are fine with that, I will try to make the 0.99.0 release myself, automating things a little, with the goal of reducing at a minimum the work involved. I'm not going to be able to write per module release notes

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

2013-06-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Cool. I'd say it's in then... Added a feature page https://github.com/sugarlabs/roadmap/issues/9 Thanks for being open to this. The implementation is ready for review.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, we are going to code freeze on Sep 4, and that's when it would also probably make sense to branch master. Which is a bit later than you would like to land it. Though I wonder if we should consider this feature

[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Over the last few months I have been slowly developing a much needed field feature, the final piece in the automatic system upgrade puzzle. Now I am getting close, I would like to open the formalities... http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Automatic_activity_updates At this point I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and matching) builds for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching (so 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest stable updates into the build

Re: [Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: Adding firefox did install firefox but gave following error while trying to execute on XO: $ firefox Error: Platform version '13.0' is not compatible with minVersion = 12.0 maxVersion

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to deploy the webactivity libraries

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for starting this thread - it is something that needs to be carefully discussed and considered. Just one comment to add for now: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: ===Include a copy of the library in each webactivity=== Each activity carries a

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH Portfolio] Fix position and duration query

2013-05-25 Thread Daniel Drake
The API changed slightly in gstreamer-1.0. This fixes audio recording. --- grecord.py | 10 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Now that we are on gstreamer-1.0 it may be worth revisiting if the EOS stopped advancing workaround is needed. I'm suspicious of that code and in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: Hi there, I use fedora ARM to build OS for XO1.75. I have recently successfully built OS12.1.0 using olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini. Now I am in need of preparing a build with firefox and flashplugin. Is it

Re: [Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Question for the sugar-web-activities framework developers: * With the actual implementation, do we _really_ need webkit2? You can say, why? We already decided that! I know, but thinking in the following months: *

Re: [Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: webkit2 is included in F18 and is in OLPC builds. Has anyone checked if it is good enough to run the latest webapp stuff? There may be no need to go back to webkit1 if you want to continue on this path. I can'see

Re: [Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: webkitgtk3 I think that is webkit, no webkit2 How are you coming to that conclusion? I just checked the spec file, webkit2 compilation is enabled, and the lib appears installed as /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-3.0.so.18.0.5

Re: [Sugar-devel] Github issue tracking

2013-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/issues/27 We should probably decide if we want to keep using trac instead and if so turn the issue tracker on github off. Last time we discussed it, the idea was to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Web activity example that uses html5 canvas

2013-05-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org wrote: Draw the simple background only when the widget resizes - SL #1959 https://git.sugarlabs.org/clock/mainline/commit/5ec58d240ab99e3268f85ba31c1ed0ee99f78260 So the next release of Clock will be a more fair comparison. Can

[Sugar-devel] New TuxPaint and GCompris wrapper activities

2013-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, The TuxPaint and GCompris activities on activities.sugarlabs.org don't support ARM, and the solution taken by a few deployments is to add the systemwide gcompris/tuxpaint packages (from Fedora) to the OS build and use simple launcher activities from http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/nicaragua/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH TamTam 1/2 v2] Output to ALSA directly from csound

2013-05-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks Daniel. Two questions: when was the change done? I mean, what sugar version should we mark as compatible with a activity with this change? I don't think it affects sugar version compatibility. The second is, if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] multiple home views

2013-05-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views How is the teacher going to use the proposed functionality to ensure a consistent home view on all the XOs? Will he/she go to each XO one by one and mark the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Fallback to _NET_WM_PID to map windows to activities

2013-05-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: It has been a while since I wrote this patch, hopefully I'm not misremembering... I think NotifyLaunch is in practice private to the shell, activities should have no need to use it (and are not supposed to be importing

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH TamTam 1/2] Output to ALSA directly from csound

2013-05-01 Thread Daniel Drake
TamTam sound is crackly on some setups (e.g. XO-1.5 and newer with dmix running at 48000Hz). http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12651 Clooper seems to implement its own ALSA sample rate resampling, as well as upsampling of the period rate to overcome any differences in csound period size and ALSA

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH TamTam 2/2] Clooper: strip built library

2013-05-01 Thread Daniel Drake
This saves some disk space. The unstripped version can still be built with make aclient.so --- common/Util/Clooper/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/common/Util/Clooper/Makefile b/common/Util/Clooper/Makefile index eaefae9..8dfd624 100644 ---

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH TamTam 1/2 v2] Output to ALSA directly from csound

2013-05-01 Thread Daniel Drake
TamTam sound is crackly on some setups (e.g. XO-1.5 and newer with dmix running at 48000Hz). Clooper seems to implement its own ALSA sample rate resampling, as well as upsampling of the period rate to overcome any differences in csound period size and ALSA period size. This code is the cause of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Fallback to _NET_WM_PID to map windows to activities

2013-04-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks, this can be used to fix the problem detailed in my mail Window handling for non-Python activities I have tested it. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: -def get_type(self): +def get_bundle_id(self): Retrieve the activity bundle

Re: [Sugar-devel] Prototype python - js IPC

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I wrote a quick prototype for a possible python - js IPC. I am missing some background here. In what cases do we need such IPC? The two cases that spring to mind are journal and collaboration. I think in an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Etoys] Use ALSA sound backend if available

2013-04-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 15.04.2013, at 07:53, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Extend the sound backend selection code to consider using ALSA. On XO-1.75 and XO-4

Re: [Sugar-devel] Chromium integration inside the sugar shell (was Re: Kicking off HTML5 activities work)

2013-04-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I might not have yet made explicit what a web application provides on the top of an html page loaded in a browser, which is what we get with 1. Taking a look to the Chromium documentation is a good way to get an idea of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Chromium integration inside the sugar shell (was Re: Kicking off HTML5 activities work)

2013-04-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: But is WebKit so much better? For example the WebKit2 decision _seems_ to have been made by Apple engineers without even talking to major contributors. The gtk bits are maintained the way we would like them to but...

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Etoys] Use ALSA sound backend if available

2013-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Extend the sound backend selection code to consider using ALSA. On XO-1.75 and XO-4 this fixes sound in etoys with squeak-vm-4.x. It also fixes XO-4 sound recording which was not working on any previous version. Ping

Re: [Sugar-devel] Music keyboard stuck keys

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I will try. Is not the same issue we see in Paint with the mouse emulation? No, because there is no mouse movement involved. Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

[Sugar-devel] Music keyboard stuck keys

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Some testers at the OLPC office in Nicaragua found that it's quite easy to break the shiny new piano. 1. Use one finger to play a note on the piano (and hold that finger down). 2. Use another finger to scroll up and down in the instrument selector above the piano. 3. Remove the

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH Etoys] Use ALSA sound backend if available

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Extend the sound backend selection code to consider using ALSA. On XO-1.75 and XO-4 this fixes sound in etoys with squeak-vm-4.x. It also fixes XO-4 sound recording which was not working on any previous version. Index: etoys-5.0.2408/etoys.in

Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC France 12.1.0 testing results

2013-03-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: We're currently preparing the 2013 mission to our Nosy Komba deployment: 150 XO-1 + 50 XO-1.5. So, a team of volunteer have tested on 12.1.0/Sugar 0.96 our 63 activities currently deployed there on OLPC 883/Sugar 0.94.1. I know

Re: [Sugar-devel] Proxy Settings in Network Control Panel

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: For more details of the http_proxy interactions with GTK+, please see the source-code of webkit, in particular http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk/Tools/GtkLauncher/main.c GtkLauncher is not a part of WebKit

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.org wrote: I'd like to propose Network proxy configuration in Sugar http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_configuration I would say that this feature does not fit particularly nicely with some items of our guidelines:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: One problem that I have seen in various places, children untick the Radio enable checkbox in Sugar's control panel and then return their laptop for repair because they can't get online. I fear that proxy

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: About the network proxy configuration, I agree is better have a automatic configuration _if_possible_, but there are times when is not possible, then we should provide a solution. Has been a request for a long time, and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [record PATCH] sl#4442: Now, Copy-to-Clipboard works fine, after the recipient clicks on the thumbnail, and the complete-data is fetched.

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: Signed-off-by: Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com --- button.py | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Thanks for the patch. It would be nice to have a commit message

[Sugar-devel] Window handling for non-Python activities

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, There are a number of popular apps which have had a minimal Sugar launcher built around them so that they can be launched from Sugar. Examples include GCompris, Tux Paint and Tux Math. In recent versions of sugar (tested 0.96 and 0.98) the way these are launched is no longer working

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window handling for non-Python activities

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: How can we solve this issue? Do we need to modify all of these activities? Or can we improve Sugar here? If Sugar can determine the PID of the new window, I guess it could observe that it is a child process of the python

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window handling for non-Python activities

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 February 2013 18:22, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: How can we solve this issue? Do we need to modify all of these activities? The way these activities are written seems sort of crazy but maybe I'm missing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window handling for non-Python activities

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: This patch seems related: http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/dc8f6ed7852f919fe7123d458706fb82430257e9 It was written to address a similar issue with a Flash Sugar app that would swap windows around.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4285#comment:7

2013-02-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: My Settings/ Software Update is important to have for both fedora 18 sugar-desktop and the fedora 18 Sugar on a Stick spin. Nobody doubts that its a bug worth fixing, but resources are limited, so we set

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar PATCH] Proxy feature. Wiki page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Ajay Garg ajaygargn...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing to be cleared :: storing in dconf IS THE SAME AS storing in gsettings . Not exactly. gsettings has a choice of backends, dconf is just one of them. Daniel ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] webgl in Browse

2013-01-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried but I think it might work on Fedora 18, it sounds like it's enabled by default in webkit 1.10. If someone has it installed, the easiest test would be to try it in the epiphany browser. If it works it

Re: [Sugar-devel] webgl in Browse

2013-01-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Is epiphany using webkitgtk2 or webkitgtk in F18? In Browse we are using webkitgtk right now. I am pretty sure that would have no impact on WebGL. Both of those APIs share the same rendering engine. But to answer the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Porting to GSettings and XDG directories

2012-12-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: * Port glucose to use GSettings. I guess this includes sugar-toolkit (gtk2 version). Are there gsettings bindings for pygtk? Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Yama First impressions, OLPC OS 13.1 31018

2012-12-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Yama, Thanks a lot for the feedback - all very useful. Focusing mainly on the items where a quick answer is possible: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: *Sugar GUI* Terminal is hidden again. If someone /deserves/ Terminal privileges, they can learn

Re: [Sugar-devel] Yama First impressions, OLPC OS 13.1 31018

2012-12-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Kim kimtoufec...@gmail.com wrote: I'd call my 1.5 HS first impressions poor. Beginning from a clean install (fs-update from a USB stick), things loaded fine and the opening hello boot-up experience is improved. After using the control panel to connect to the

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Modem device icon: fix state detection (#4255)

2012-12-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Probably lacking an update from the NM-0.8 era, _update_state does not correctly handle NM_DEVICE_STATE_IP_CHECK and NM_DEVICE_STATE_SECONDARIES (triggered late in the connection-establishing process after NM_DEVICE_STATE_IP_CONFIG). This was causing backtraces like: File

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar 12/20] No reason to unfreeze dcon on idle

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: From: Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com I think actually there is a good reason. The OLPC XO boot design is that the XO man is always visible - from the firmware, through the boot animation, and then when Sugar loads.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Rework how we select the Xcursor theme

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Distributions which are shipping both GNOME and sugar should make sure to set XDG_CONFIG_HOME for either of the desktops to point to a non default location, so that the settings are not conflicting. It's necessary in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-update-control PATCH 1/2] Now, the selecting/unselecting particular activities works.

2012-12-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: I will be grateful if you could let me know the download link of the image where it worked. That will provide me the mental push to have a go-ahead on what surely would then be a regression. 12.1.0 from

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-update-control PATCH 1/2] Now, the selecting/unselecting particular activities works.

2012-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: It would be good if it is known whether the Select/Deselect feature worked at all previously (I doubt it ever did). In the unlikely scenario that it worked before, I will be happy to delve in more into this. Yes, it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-update-control PATCH 1/2] Now, the selecting/unselecting particular activities works.

2012-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for the patch. If you'd like to speed up the process and save me some time, please add a commit message explaining what was wrong and how/why this fixes it. It does not jump out at me from the patch. It also doesn't feel like the right place to be doing a spring cleaning of the activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] 13.1 ? and 12 ? Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-30

2012-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: 2) What is the role of these 31012 builds? are they meant as an official update? are they undergoing further testing? In short, should I point people to those instead of to the 21021? The naming scheme is described

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] CP: allow further selection beyond English fallback

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Currently, the language control panel does not allow you to select other languages after a en_US entry. This is built around the assumption that source code strings are always in English, which is the common case, but does not always have to be true. As other apps can interpret the same LANGUAGE

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Restore use of XSMP client

2012-11-14 Thread Daniel Drake
In the GTK3 port we mistakenly moved from using the EggSMClientXSMP class to the (stub-like) EggSMClient base class for Sugar's XSMPClient class, instantiated for every activity. This meant that the GTK3 activities weren't registering with the session manager, meaning that they won't

Re: [Sugar-devel] Write bundled with Sugar 0.97.8 fails to start and tells Could not find any typelib for abi

2012-10-31 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I know you guys are busy and I don't want to keep wasting your time (in this discussion too!). Though let me just suggest that putting links to the upstream bugs in a text file wouldn't take much time. Using a separate

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-21

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Mostly kind of worked, but how do I get my local branch (gtk2) to appear on g.sl.o? git push -u origin gtk2 That's a one-off - all future git push should then update both branches (if there are local unpushed

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-21

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Sugar Labs Activities activit...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4192 Sugar Platform: 0.98 - 0.98 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28270/ruler-21.xo The other weird thing here is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-21

2012-10-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Sugar Labs Activities activit...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4192 Sugar Platform: 0.98 - 0.98 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28270/ruler-21.xo Release notes: 21 This doesn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-21

2012-10-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: http://git.sugarlabs.org/~flavio/ruler/rulergtk3 This raises an issue. I have not been consistent about where I have been putting the gtk-3 branches of my activities. Many of the ports are made by 3rd parties who

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-21

2012-10-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know any magic git foo that would enable me to do the following? Before: Master == GTK2 Clone == GTK3 After: Master == GTK3 Branch == GTK2 From your repository, first create the GTK2 branch with: # git

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Request AP properties with dbus ByteArrays (#4031)

2012-10-14 Thread Daniel Drake
As we deal with the ssid property as a string, we need to explicitly request byte array data as a ByteArray as is done in other places. This wasn't a problem before the upgrade to dbus-1.6.8; its likely that the byte_arrays setting was questionably inherited from other places where we subscribe

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] sugar-session: initialize threading via glib

2012-10-13 Thread Daniel Drake
sugar extensions that use threads such as OLPC's software updater require that threads have been properly initialised before the main loop is ran. For pygobject3, GLib.threads_init() must be called before doing the same for Gdk, otherwise the threads hang in random places for long periods of

[Sugar-devel] Write activity for Abiword-2.9.x/GTK3

2012-10-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Gonzalo, Is there Write activity code available for abiword-2.9.x/GTK3 or is this yet to be done? Thanks Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Use NetworkManager to generate connection UUIDs

2012-10-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: To know the scope of this issue a bit more: What current side effects do we have? NetworkManager doesn't let sugar establish a connection because the uuid is invalid. We can use the python module for uuid as well to

[Sugar-devel] gettext vs unicode problem in wireless key dialog

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Sorry for not doing my homework, a bit overloaded... What was the result of the discussion where _(str1) % str2 was causing problems (assuming it has been resolved)? The issue I'm looking at is that we do this exact pattern in keydialog.py and it is raising an exception. The Spanish

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Key dialog: fix label creation

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
This incorrect syntax was probably introduced by pygi-convert. This was one of the issues preventing the wireless key dialog from popping up. --- src/jarabe/desktop/keydialog.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/jarabe/desktop/keydialog.py

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Use NetworkManager to generate connection UUIDs

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Recent versions of NetworkManager have gotten stricter when checking UUIDs. A UUID must be 32 hex characters plus 4 dashes. Sugar's unique_id() doesn't satisify this. Switch to using NM to generate UUIDs. --- src/jarabe/desktop/networkviews.py | 4 ++-- src/jarabe/model/adhoc.py | 4

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Fix external media mounting (#3911)

2012-09-25 Thread Daniel Drake
The GVolumeMonitor used for mounting devices must not drop out of scope, otherwise it will be destroyed, and no signals will be receieved. Move it into global scope. Update mount and unmount calls for introspection. Remove dead code from volumestoolbar. --- extensions/deviceicon/volume.py

[Sugar-devel] Port all activities from cjson to json

2012-09-24 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, With the latest sugar-toolkit release, sugar now no longer uses cjson, which has long been unmaintained and buggy, and no longer has the speed advantages that it used to (as other libraries have caught up). Any activity that uses cjson should be ported to use the 'json' module included in

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