Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-12 Thread James Cameron
This is fixed, please upgrade the sugar-write-activity package. It was a workaround for the AbiWord flickering bug, which has since been fixed by AbiWord project. On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 06:03:37PM +, shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in wrote: > Hi James, > > I have tried the other activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-10 Thread James Cameron
Hello Shaan, The cursor change was fixed in https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/32bc78437ab4c08a8a2334ea50e04bbeb38c390c You could test if that patch is already applied, and if not apply it. You can also use a manual workaround in bash shell. My Ubuntu 20.04 packages will be updated

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-10 Thread Srevin Saju
Hey Shaan, I guess that error was fixed by me on sugar github repo. Try rebuilding the sugar package from the source. If its not still fixed, let me know. This tool might be useful gnome-shell-extension I guess there is already a apt package for it. sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension This

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-10 Thread shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in
Hi James, Regarding the Focal Fossa Build, I have been experiencing the issue of the mouse cursor permanently changing to the sugar cursor, after logging out and switching to a non sugar session (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Wayland options) making it very difficult to use Ubuntu. Please let me know if you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-09 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. I'm tracking this as https://github.com/sugarlabs/write-activity/issues/38 On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 06:03:37PM +, shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in wrote: > Hi James, > > I have tried the other activities and the only the text editor has this issue. > I'll download the package source

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-09 Thread shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in
Hi James, I have tried the other activities and the only the text editor has this issue. I'll download the package source and find out the issue if possible. BestShaan On Monday, March 9, 2020, 3:32:38 AM GMT+5:30, James Cameron wrote: Thanks Shaan. In the context of 'Debian

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-08 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Shaan. In the context of 'Debian advocacy for Sugar' project idea, the testing is not testing of Sugar, but is testing; - of Debian experimental release packages, - of Debian testing release packages, - of Debian stable release packages, - of the above in combination with Sugar,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSoC

2020-03-08 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 02:17:33PM +, shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in wrote: > Hi Srevin, > > I have tried installing Sugar for Arch from your repo(from the stable > directory), had problems with the installer script. I'm not sure if it runs on > vanilla Arch but I was unable to get it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-08 Thread shaansubbaiah.cs18
Hi James, Regarding the 'Debian advocacy for Sugar' task, I'm not sure how to go about testing. Right now I'm just checking the console for errors upon install, trying out all the settings and activities. I would like to know if there is a more structured approach. All my searches online return

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSoC

2020-03-08 Thread Srevin Saju
Thanks Shaan for testing it out If you have any changes to the autoinstall.sh, you can create a PR, and it would be beneficial to extend this to others. Regarding empy again, it is because empy does not create a executable on arch (see https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/896 and more) If

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSoC

2020-03-08 Thread Bottersnike
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/882 may be of interest. The other issues listed at https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues?q=is%3Aissue+empy might also be relevant depending on the exact issue you're having. On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:17 PM shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in <

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSoC

2020-03-08 Thread shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in
Hi Srevin, I have tried installing Sugar for Arch from your repo(from the stable directory), had problems with the installer script. I'm not sure if it runs on vanilla Arch but I was unable to get it work on a fresh install of Manjaro. I have forked the repo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSoC

2020-03-06 Thread Srevin Saju
Thanks Shaan. You have brought interest to know you have been using Manjaro (Arch) based Linux. I would be happy to have Arch Linux based packages tested and then published it to the community repository for pacman. You may be interested in installing Sugar Desktop natively on Manjaro by

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-06 Thread James Cameron
Welcome Shaan. Thanks for your interest. Please do discuss your application ideas with us, and get involved. The 'Debian advocacy for Sugar' project idea includes testing and then fixing bugs in Debian packages of Sugar and activities, or any other Debian packages they depend on. The project

[Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

2020-03-06 Thread shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in
Hello everyone, I'm Shaan Subbaiah, a 2nd year CSE undergrad interested in contributing towards SugarLabs through GSoC. I would like to work on the task 'Debian advocacy for Sugar'. I use Linux (Manjaro) on a daily basis but this would be the first time I would be testing software packages. I'm