Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:51:04AM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: 2 X fades a couple of times and then hangs the system. Describe this further? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-31 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:45:32PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: that said, it is an interesting exercise to try drawing letters with the Turtle. Yes, a fantastic way to learn the geometry of letters in another way than with pen and ink. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wireless connection

2009-07-30 Thread James Cameron
as a gateway for multiple others. It is a function of Linux. This is handled in the XS, server-devel mailing list. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] problem connecting to irc

2009-07-31 Thread James Cameron
should determine why your IP address is listed. If you are purchasing IP service from a company, you could ask them for advice, but the situation is usually caused by someone else who used your IP before you doing something particularly evil. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reducing Stick Failures - Was Re: [Marketing] press release opportunity...

2009-07-31 Thread James Cameron
software stack is that there are many components which could enter a state where they would not start. Back tomorrow. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wireless Connection

2009-07-31 Thread James Cameron
module), and configure pppd. The kernel you have might not have the option module available. The laptop you have might not have pppd installed. Good luck! -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reducing Stick Failures - Was Re: [Marketing] press release opportunity...

2009-07-31 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:41:29AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've arrived late. I've been listening to this discussion for a week. A general comment ... if any state is preserved by the children

Re: [Sugar-devel] Additional data for corrupted SoaS

2009-08-01 Thread James Cameron
. Cause of the flaw? Either a block has deteriorated to the point that it cannot be read (the lifetime is not infinite), or it was erased as part of being written but the write did not complete. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] First step towards an efficient feedback process

2009-08-03 Thread James Cameron
, they lose activities from the ring as a result of accidental mouse movements. After a few hours though they don't do it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] buddy tags

2009-08-03 Thread James Cameron
. I agree. It is hard to explain to children the difference between the XO that represents them and the XO that represents the machine. I've tried. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] F11 for XO1 - Fonts

2009-08-04 Thread James Cameron
display would be affected, such that fonts would no longer match physical properties. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread James Cameron
everyone. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-10 Thread James Cameron
deviation? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread James Cameron
are expressed as circles of varying radii. Press q to quit. Tested on OLPC build 802 and debxo. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ #!/usr/bin/python Signal Strength Meter Copyright (C) 2009 James Cameron (qu...@laptop.org) This program is free software; you can redistribute

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread James Cameron
more data was exposed). -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] WatchMe-1, a VNC activity

2009-08-12 Thread James Cameron
seems the most active. Unfortunately it looks like they are both Java based. My gut feel is that converting existing Linux VNC applications to use multicast would not be a huge technical challenge. I'm not (yet) volunteering. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] moving Shutdown above Control Panel #1206 [PATCH]

2009-08-19 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:34:22PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1206 trac not letting me log in either, but here's a patch ... -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ From ab6e17b6cf054a87f3c7763a3aa9b4c6a5a87326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Cameron qu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Timezone?] Timezone settings

2009-08-20 Thread James Cameron
it via command line. If you are preparing an image for others, then you could capture the filesystem change and use that. XE1YAA VK2LQZ clear. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFH - Journal corruption reports fom 8.2.1 users in Uy

2009-08-20 Thread James Cameron
of a friend, and one of them reported a loss event recently ... what do I look for in the filesystem to check for evidence of this? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Any pull with HP?

2009-09-16 Thread James Cameron
countries. I don't know if this is the reason, but it does happen. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

2009-09-17 Thread James Cameron
the first way to handle it ... gather the critical problem data. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

2009-09-18 Thread James Cameron
/mainline.git and git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-datastore/mainline.git -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

2009-09-18 Thread James Cameron
constraints. Have you a way to *force* the problem on 0.82, e.g. by chown or chmod of a file in the datastore, or some other method that does not involve an SD card? Has the OLPC Support Gang been consulted? They may have already tooled up. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

2009-09-18 Thread James Cameron
any *other* evidence of why, other than the datastore itself? e.g. no logs. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] SoaS: Searching for Decision Panel volunteers.

2009-09-20 Thread James Cameron
on a Stick and Ubuntu Sugar on a Stick. ;-) debxo has an ext3 USB build target with a sugar-desktop flavour already. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread James Cameron
SoaS responds to termination of X server in a different way than does the XO builds. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread James Cameron
to be fixed. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Live CD with network / HDD storage - possible?

2009-10-12 Thread James Cameron
modified this filesystem to add further features. Booting time was about one minute, if I recall correctly. I've not done the same with Sugar yet, but it should be quite possible. You might like to look at LTSP and the server packages. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] MANIFEST experiments

2009-10-14 Thread James Cameron
Speak TamTamMini TamTamSynthLab Terminal TurtleArt Write 2. the change was to activitybundle.py in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/bundle/ and removed all code in read_manifest(), leaving just pass: def read_manifest(self): pass -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-15 Thread James Cameron
I've just tried an equivalent of this patch on OLPC build 802 on an XO-1, and it feels much more responsive. It affects all mouse-over menus in Sugar. I'm adding it to my list of patches that improve performance perceptions. /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/graphics/ -- James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-15 Thread James Cameron
. But what does appear appears without a two second delay! Consider it for deployment, Daniel. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-16 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:01:30AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:48:31PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: I'm adding it to my list of patches that improve performance perceptions. Is this list available online somewhere? http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/802-patches

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-16 Thread James Cameron
no expert in that product. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-17 Thread James Cameron
the friends' kids how to remove their frustration a bit ... and I was able to add a comment to my patch set mentioning the right-click. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] ribbon, right-click, button bars (was: RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good)

2009-10-20 Thread James Cameron
at a spot that gives tactile feedback prior to the press. Across the front of the XO those spots include the left edge of the left button, the right edge of the right button, *and* the interface between the two. Close your eyes, clear your mind, and run your finger along. -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarizing an application

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
Odd ... why gnome-ppp and wvdial? NetworkManager has built-in ppp support. Have you tried the Gnome NetworkManager app? By using NetworkManager in the same way that Sugar already does, you'd get across that privilege boundary in the same way. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarizing an application

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
before Network Manager had this ability: http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/eee.phtml In this particular package, connection is automatically initiated when the modem is inserted. The source code is at http://quozl.linux.org.au/darcs/eee-bpw/ -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO in 2 identical SSID scenario

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
knowledge of your configuration in order to verify that the test would be true. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread James Cameron
is. Ok. Canonical provides a way to extract the data, so that could be used to reduce this risk. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-02 Thread James Cameron
connections between OLPC and SL bugs? Yes, OLPC may consider this, but in my view only after the XO-1.5 cycle ... the workflow is different to how Launchpad works, and changing now would be high risk. OLPC Trac also does not suffer unduly from automated attacks. -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] need to drain the battery quickly

2009-11-02 Thread James Cameron
in watch-battery mode. You'll also get regular updates of status. It can even be logged using the telnetd feature and a nearby system. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] In gconf-based Sugar, how do I read config values (nickname, etc)...

2009-11-03 Thread James Cameron
I used this as root: su -c gconftool-2 --get /desktop/sugar/user/nick olpc -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] MANIFEST experiments

2009-11-08 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:29:51PM +0700, Philipp Kocher wrote: The patch is good to reduce the boot time, but doesn't work for activity developers. Yes, this is a known side-effect. It is an optimisation for users not developers. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO problems with 32 characters SSID [laptop.org #9652]

2009-11-12 Thread James Cameron
This is being tracked as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9652 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-19 Thread James Cameron
saying that in INSTALL is also a good idea. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] adding 3G support to Sugar (was Re: Sugarizing an application)

2009-11-20 Thread James Cameron
seen Ubuntu handling this UI design issue by building a data set of providers. It might be possible to piggy back on some of that work. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] adding 3G support to Sugar (was Re: Sugarizing an application)

2009-11-24 Thread James Cameron
On 23/11/2009, at 7:18 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:14:38AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:10 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I think I've seen Ubuntu handling

Re: [Sugar-devel] Enhancement suggestion - Maze

2009-11-29 Thread James Cameron
On 29/11/2009, at 8:15 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: Something I would like feedback on. After several sessions playing Maze with 6 year olds, I've noticed that it's sometimes very hard to distinguish the difference between opponents if they have the same core colour. E.g. blue w/ light blue

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issues with mesh network on XO 1.5

2009-12-06 Thread James Cameron
the unusual network name with hashes is relevant? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issues with mesh network on XO 1.5

2009-12-07 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:37:26AM +, Daniel Drake wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:11 +1100, James Cameron wrote: For what it is worth, with two XO-1 running 802, and two XO-1.5 running os54, a network created by one of the os54 units does not show on the neighbourhood view of the two

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO Google result displays Mozilla description

2009-12-08 Thread James Cameron
. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] links and commands for supporting development

2009-12-09 Thread James Cameron
But on a network you control, that receives no connection initiations from untrusted or compromised hosts, in otherwise controlled circumstances, it's a fine thing to do. Just don't do it where everybody can see you. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Problem Reports

2009-12-13 Thread James Cameron
. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Problem Reports

2009-12-13 Thread James Cameron
we have no process to capture it is working fine, and so when a problem is found, we have very little evidence regarding the frequency of a problem. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to enable activities

2009-12-14 Thread James Cameron
. ;-} -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Religious/Spiritual Text

2009-12-17 Thread James Cameron
difficult to translate, it was fascinating.) http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/11/07/2735643.htm -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtleart and Arduino

2009-12-20 Thread James Cameron
and writing high? Or are you relying on the execution time? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS font scaling issue

2009-12-22 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:21:54PM -0500, Art Hunkins wrote: def scale_font(self, widget): if not os.path.exists(/sys/power/olpc-pm): (Interesting. XO-1.5 does not have this path. XO-1 does.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS font scaling issue

2009-12-22 Thread James Cameron
if there is any other recommended way. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS font scaling issue

2009-12-22 Thread James Cameron
hardware running that operating system build. At least /etc/olpc-release is also available in 802. It seems adequate. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread James Cameron
... and the src.rpm is in Martin's directory: http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/public_rpms/8.2-papercuts/NetworkManager-0.6.5-0.14.svn3246.olpc3.src.rpm You're also welcome to ask this sort of question in the ticket itself. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

[Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
There's been some analysis of why image-writer-mac doesn't work so well on older Mac OS X versions ... you might be interested, Bert. Is it in change control anywhere? ;-} I did look on git.sugarlabs.org but search showed nothing and the projects list was on so many pages. -- James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
two changes, I'm not yet willing to host a repository for it. ;-) Were there other authors or testers? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Development

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
on newer versions of Sugar [...] Helping track down open tickets with any activities on this list would be of great benefit. And a polite reminder that there are now at least three places you might find tickets ... sugarlabs.org, laptop.org, and launchpad. ;-) -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-13 Thread James Cameron
a quassel server in the cloud somewhere. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Automated coverage testing?

2010-01-13 Thread James Cameron
G'day, Is there an automated test for Sugar or for activities? Something that will act like a user and generate keyboard and mouse actions to exercise each feature at least once. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for testing

2010-01-17 Thread James Cameron
#1656 or dev.lapotp.org #9924 are fixed, I really recommend against just adding a log print to each UI control. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Control Panel Font configuration

2010-01-19 Thread James Cameron
I prefer the first option ... and I'd also like an example of the font size shown; preferrably a few words that wrap. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN][FEATURE] 3G modem support

2010-01-27 Thread James Cameron
), or the top right of the non-activity views. However, hoving, clicking or otherwise interacting with this icon appears to do nothing. It eventually goes away. Gnome desktop draws a window and fills it in with the text of the notification. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN][FEATURE] 3G modem support

2010-01-29 Thread James Cameron
, but that can be a future feature). Maybe Connect would be greyed out and there would be Configure option that would take to the CP? Don't forget the use case of charge my mobile phone using this computer, where no intent to connect is actually intended. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-01 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:41:26PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote: It includes a copy of browse, doesn't it? It imports. In /home/olpc/Activities/Wikipedia.activity/activity.py: sys.path.append(/home/olpc/Activities/Browse.activity) import webactivity -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-01 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:23:46PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 01.02.2010, at 14:20, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:41:26PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote: It includes a copy of browse, doesn't it? It imports. In /home/olpc/Activities/Wikipedia.activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-02 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:59:12AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 23:30, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've just tested; one can open Wikipedia activity, type google.com into the location text field, and then start a Browse activity from the activity ring

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-02 Thread James Cameron
either way ... I've not seen children discover either method for multiple active Browse ... sample space 50 children at an open day and 4 children whom I occasionally observe. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] screen blurring using firefox 3.5 and 3.6

2010-02-03 Thread James Cameron
-- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] More new and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-02-03 Thread James Cameron
... with the comment that the purpose of the code is for building more developers. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: #841 UNSP: SoaS should support using a proxy server

2010-02-08 Thread James Cameron
from it use Control/Q in the window, or Control/C on the Terminal. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: #841 UNSP: SoaS should support using a proxy server

2010-02-08 Thread James Cameron
secure_host secure_port socks_host socks_port Network Proxy Preferences on F11 also provides multiple location choices. I imagine large scale deployments of Sugar would use the gconf keys directly rather than expose all this complexity unnecessarily. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

[Sugar-devel] sugar-launch, with brief activity name

2010-02-10 Thread James Cameron
: 0. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/blobs/master/bin/sugar-launch 1. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/b36db6599ed59412ce77c8ed4fb1dea782877a62 2. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/897 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Heads Up: Sugar 0.87.4 coming to Rawhide

2010-02-11 Thread James Cameron
to test a much more recent version of Sugar, and I've not set up an environment to do that in yet). -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-12 Thread James Cameron
in dev.laptop.org bugs as having inadequately described licenses in code and packaging, but are there other activities that need this review? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Test request: Wifi encryption changes...

2010-02-12 Thread James Cameron
). If this gets fixed, then we can remove the ugly delete network info button from the control panel (which is just a workaround for this). I think that something that prevents automatic connection to a network that you previously trusted is still worthwhile. -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-12 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:42:43AM +0800, Peter Robinson wrote: Bug numbers? SL#1571 for Pippy, just a tiny fix. SL#1695 for Physics, with a detailed review. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Heads Up: Sugar 0.87.4 coming to Rawhide

2010-02-14 Thread James Cameron
of either backporting the fix or closing the ticket as solved in a later release. There is a useful side effect of testing 0.86 or 0.87, but don't *expect* this to occur from me until we start using those versions in a build. ;-} -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-launch, with brief activity name

2010-02-15 Thread James Cameron
but would load all the activity metadata into the sugar-launch process and then discard the result of that effort. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-launch, with brief activity name

2010-02-15 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:57:55AM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:03:36PM +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Sure, I think this is a bug and the older behavior was correct. Do we have a patch already? [...] 1. change to shell service D-Bus API GetBundlePath to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Release policy and upgrades of sugar on laptops

2010-02-16 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:52:52PM -0500, Art Hunkins wrote: What are my options? A recent F11 for XO-1 build ... these tend to show the same font behaviours as the F11 for XO-1.5 builds. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Setting public key - gitorious

2010-02-19 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:20:17PM -0500, Art Hunkins wrote: git config remote.origin.url I get nothing but the commandline back. Me too. But: git config --list works better for me to see remote.origin.url -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Setting public key - gitorious

2010-02-19 Thread James Cameron
other, normally. No idea if this addresses your main task, I was just replying regarding remote.origin.url. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-0.88 ppa on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

2010-02-22 Thread James Cameron
? add-apt-repository ppa:alsroot/trisquel-edu-3.5 apt-get update apt-get install sugar-platform -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-0.88 ppa on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

2010-02-22 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:55:24AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:27:32PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:49:02AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: I've created sugar 0.88 based ppa for karmic, intructions are here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keyboard Function-Special Buttons

2010-02-23 Thread James Cameron
mapping and change the key legends and physical positions. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-0.88 ppa on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

2010-02-23 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:38:58AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: I've uploaded patched packages(but w/o Xephyr title fix) Much better, thanks. The Applications - Education - Sugar sequence now generates a window that takes the full screen, the Xephyr title is no longer visible. -- James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] Font display revisited

2010-02-25 Thread James Cameron
, or that the size observed on one platform won't be the size observed on another platform. Perhaps you could make a small test activity that asks the toolkits to render some text, then measure the result, and gather some information about the cause of the differences. -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Yum install sugar-activity-record?

2010-02-25 Thread James Cameron
, it would be possible, and it has been done for certain core activities. However the advantage of .xo files are that they require no configuration of yum, and they work also when Sugar is used on platforms that don't have yum. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keyboard Function-Special Buttons

2010-02-28 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 03:46:55PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 00:17, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:35:34PM -0500, John Tierney wrote: Is it possible to take these functions from F1, F2, F3 and map these to special separate buttons

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Displaying ERROR and ALERT messages as notifications

2010-02-28 Thread James Cameron
, but you can't get details of the notification. I've tried testing on Sugar 0.88 on Ubuntu 9.10, but libnotify-bin fails with a traceback on GetServerInformation. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Width of the TitleEntry widget

2010-03-12 Thread James Cameron
to dump the size-allocate and size-request signals of the Stop button container. Can you show how to force the problem to occur? (I also considered the arrow methods of the gtk.Toolbar as a sort of brute force size renegotiator, but I think that's a last resort.) -- James Cameron http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Porting a game to Sugar

2010-03-17 Thread James Cameron
SUGAR_PROFILE values, they can also see the other XOs on my local network, but the other XOs only see one of the two emulated sessions, and the emulators do not see each other. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket #245 - More information needed

2010-03-17 Thread James Cameron
G'day Kenny, Thanks for taking ownership of the ticket. You mentioned you didn't know if the same behaviour is being reproduced on the XO, so I did some testing for you and added my findings to the ticket. Hope that helps. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

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