Re: [sugar] Sugar Design Meeting REMINDER (Now)

2008-12-04 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
the following to the list for the GConf key: /apps/panel/applets/clock/prefs/cities Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Finding cursors. Ripples in a puddle?

2008-11-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
doubt it would be very > difficult to do if you were interested in a bit of Xlib hacking. > IIRC, one of the GUI bling thingies (Compiz/Beryl) used to implement this kind of thing at some point. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] gconf woes

2008-11-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ewer/%gconf.xml) As per the usual GConf programming guidelines, sensitive data such as password, etc should not be stored in GConf. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] gconf woes

2008-11-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Dbus was that we wanted to avoid the dependency on Orbit and the rest of the stuff that it pulls in. Is there any reason to do otherwise at the moment ? I think upstream GNOMe has also plans to switch to GConf Dbus[1], but I'm not sure when. The maemo guys seem to be using GConf Dbus

Re: [sugar] notes on 8.2.1, specifically 767

2008-11-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:44 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > >> I agree that it sucks, and I had done some work to enable PDF viewing >> from within Browse: check out >> http://dev.l

Re: [sugar] notes on 8.2.1, specifically 767

2008-11-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
within Browse: check out http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/Screenshot.png To make it work, install the RPMs in http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/ and copy the uncompressed version http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/sugar-pdf-viewer.gz into /usr/bin and make it execut

[sugar] [ANNOUNCE] Image Viewer 4

2008-11-21 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Sugar on Gnome mobile

2008-11-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
he right subset. > > thanks > david > ___ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Stock items in Sugar

2008-11-14 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> To properly support BIDI, and to make things easier for activity >> developers in the l

[sugar] Stock items in Sugar

2008-11-14 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-11-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
/Localization/LanguagePacks -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 20

2008-10-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
translations == * tr * pt Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] [RELEASE] Image Viewer 3

2008-10-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Image Viewer 3, available at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/imageviewer-activity/ImageViewer-3.tar.bz2 and http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/imageviewer/ImageViewer-3.xo News = 3 * Bengali (India) translations Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu

[sugar] Lockdown/preconfiguration for the XO

2008-10-20 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
llows us to do such stuff, but it may be something we might consider as possibility in the long term. Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapto

Re: [sugar] [9.1 Proposal] i18n and l10n: 9.1 and beyond

2008-10-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> c) Language packs: The current system of language packs is not very >> reliable (it overwrites the original

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Translation improvements

2008-10-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
wiki-like editing of translatable labels in the UI > > Time permitting, I might be able to give a demo of > "click-to-translate" for unmodified GTK apps, based on the journal > embedding work I recently did. > --scott Gah - I just submitted a proposal ;-). Maybe we

[sugar] [9.1 Proposal] i18n and l10n: 9.1 and beyond

2008-10-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
talk/discussion that I have/ Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
e the main menu entries in standard desktops. Any .desktop file installed in the usual places should show up in the activity list, so everytime you are using an XO for dogfooding, you don't have to fire up Terminal/xterm/ to run an application. I should idea

Re: [sugar] Non English fallbacks for translations

2008-10-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:07 +0900, Korakurider wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > We have had this discussion before: we nee

[sugar] Non English fallbacks for translations

2008-10-16 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
dation on how this should be done ? I have a mockup at http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/scp_multilang_mockup.png Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [olpc-office-announce] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
screencast tools they'd recommend? > --scott I used Istanbul a few years back and found it to be quite useful: http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul Thanks Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:45:54PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >> Hello, >> What would be the best way to launch any activity from another >> activity ? An example where this

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:15, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> What would be the best way to launch any activity from another >> activity ? An example wher

[sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
n and launch Browse if required. Is there any better way to do this ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 Oct 2008, at 00:26, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > >> I was thinking along similar terms, and here's the screenshot of the >> latest version: >> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pd

Re: [sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ndu provided a patch for 1 which I'm going to review asap. I should be > able to work on 2 - 9 but I'd really appreciate help with some of these > (Sayamindu?). I'd like someone else to take care of 10 - 11 (Scott? > Sayamindu?). > I'm taking up 10, 4 and 6 to beg

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
hing which it cannot, or which I explicitly wish >>>>> to keep for myself, becomes a new downloaded object. >>>> >>>> So Browse would create some kind of entry that would allow resuming >>>> the reading of that book? >>>

[sugar] Sugar with a touch screen

2008-10-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Jut came across this blog: http://rkvsraman.blogspot.com/2008/10/gotcha-for-hp-touchsmart-pc.html Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] Putting stuff inside the datastore for non-activities

2008-10-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 10.10.2008 um 23:24 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: > >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 a

Re: [sugar] Putting stuff inside the datastore for non-activities

2008-10-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> The sugar-almanac has a nice guide on how put stuff inside the >> datastore program

[sugar] Putting stuff inside the datastore for non-activities

2008-10-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
. (file_path = os.path.join(self.get_activity_root(), 'instance', filename)) Can anyone tell me where to put in a file if I am not calling this from within an activity ? TIA, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___

Re: [sugar] [Cross Posted] High res screenshots of Sugar

2008-10-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 10.10.2008 um 17:11 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: > >> Hello, >> The Turkish team is trying print sugar manuals and they need high res >> (300 dpi ??) screenshots of sugar for

[sugar] [Cross Posted] High res screenshots of Sugar

2008-10-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, The Turkish team is trying print sugar manuals and they need high res (300 dpi ??) screenshots of sugar for that. Any idea on how to do that ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing

[sugar] i18n "best" practices

2008-10-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello all, Based on the requests I have been getting for some time, I created a list of things you might find it useful to know while working on your activity. Find it at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/i18n_Best_Practices Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ant to confuse them when it doesn't appear > in their Journal directly. > > +1 Thanks, Sayamindu > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> It looks like reading PDF files from the web via Browse is a

[sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
solution ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Module Proposal: Image Viewer Activity

2008-10-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
or their homepage on the web. Sayamindu Dasgupta: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sayamindu * Status of internationalization Internationalized, not in Pootle yet * Code repository. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/sayamindu/imageviewer-activity * Bug tracking system. dev.laptop.org

[sugar] [RELEASE] Image Viewer 2

2008-10-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Image Viewer 2, available at http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/imageviewer/ImageViewer-2.xo News = 2 * Restore original zoom level on return from fullscreen * New icon (Gary C Martin) * French translations (Bastien) Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu

[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 19

2008-10-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
-- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] The Jukebox activity lives!!

2008-10-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
http://kushaldas.in/2008/10/03/want-to-play-your-favourite-songmovie-on-olpc/ :-) -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Image Viewer Activity

2008-10-01 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Sep 2008, at 17:13, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > >> A screenshot is at >> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Captura%20de%20pantalla_1.png >> The code lives in Git: >> http://

Re: [sugar] Image Viewer Activity

2008-09-30 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Sep 2008, at 19:49, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> >> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:46 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Gary C Martin >>> <[EMAIL

Re: [sugar] Image Viewer Activity

2008-09-30 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was a little annoyed with having to start up Browse to view images, >> and since I had done a smal

Re: [sugar] Image Viewer Activity

2008-09-30 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 29.09.2008 um 11:46 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Gary C Martin >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 29 Sep 2008, at 17:13

Re: [sugar] Image Viewer Activity

2008-09-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Sep 2008, at 17:13, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was a little annoyed with having to start up Browse to view images, >> and since I had done a small toy PyGTK b

[sugar] Image Viewer Activity

2008-09-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
%20pantalla_1.png The code lives in Git: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/sayamindu/imageviewer-activity;a=tree Comments, patches and brickbats are welcome :-). Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings

Re: [sugar] [Localization] [RELEASE] PlayGo 5

2008-09-26 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
nish translation >> >> Here is a french translation. > > Thank you! I've commited this. > > To sugar@ and localization@: How can I get PlayGo into Pootle? > File a ticket in component localization :-) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle/FAQ#How_do_I_a

[sugar] Please notify me when you change something in the po/ directory

2008-09-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
-pootle, etc on Freenode. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Which to translate: Gulcose82 or Gulcose

2008-09-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
2008/9/23 Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti &g

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
d and >> memory usage. >> > > I agree. > > There also may be bugs which we need to shake out. If this is a feature > we know we want for 9.1, the sooner we start testing the better. > FWIW, sometime back, I did some benchmarks with a composite enabled Metacity - results at http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar@lists.laptop.org/msg03613.html Jim had suggested some memory saving tricks at http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar@lists.laptop.org/msg03647.html Thanks Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [Localization] Multiple branches and translation of strings - seeking suggestions for best practices

2008-09-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
t you try out a tool called giggle (or gitk), which will show you all the branching and tagging in a nice graphical manner, which should make it even more easier for you to get an idea of what is going on. Hope that helped (and I didn't confuse you ;-). Feel free to ask more que

[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 18

2008-09-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Terminal 18, available at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/terminal-activity/Terminal-18.tar.bz2 http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/terminal/Terminal-18.xo News = * Make the root shell a login shell (#8515) (sayamindu) Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu

Re: [sugar] Which to translate: Gulcose82 or Gulcose

2008-09-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ke sense to you? >> >> Marco >> > I think the best approach here would be to symlink the master directory to 0.82 directory for activities which do not have a 0.82 branch yet. In that way, what pootle will see as pippy-0.82 will be actually a branch to pippy-master. Do you think that covers our current problem ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Which to translate: Gulcose82 or Gulcose

2008-09-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
to you? Yeah, it does make sense. In fact that's what we do right now. However, there can be git conflicts, so I would _highly recommend_ branching :-) -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [RELEASE] Calculate 24

2008-09-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
push the changes themselves and then release from >> the sucrose branch (or discuss with sayamindu how to go best forward). > > I would not prefer to take this path since it will involve way more people > than necessary and possibly be quite a bit slower. > I have resolved the con

Re: [sugar] Unannounced String Freeze break ??

2008-09-20 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> While chewing through t

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
t; metacity). It would nice to see a quick analysis of their > strengths/weaknesses for our use case... > Just a note that Xmonad seems to pull in 35 MBs of RPMs as dependencies. I'm not sure whether that is good for our storage space. Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
wings would be tiled. And that's using only the "stretchable" > hint. =) > GIMP is stretchable. It looks ugly when it is stretched too much, but you can stretch it or even maximize it if you want. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:56 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marco and I have been discussing on how to make a window manager like >> Metacity fit into the Sugar en

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
al with that. > > Sayamindu, what do you think? Should we experiment with this approach? > Give it a try in GNOME... > I took a look, and it does seem promising. However, in this case, we need to figure out how to circumvent our existing fullscreen code. For the frame, setting it to

Re: [sugar] Unannounced String Freeze break ??

2008-09-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:28 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am a bit confused. This is definitely a break in string freeze, and >> yet, the patch mentions that string

[sugar] Unannounced String Freeze break ??

2008-09-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
? Thanks, Sayamindu PS: Michael, I think we need to refine the Trac process a bit. Can we have a "approval for string freeze break" item in the next action field, so that the bug can move forward only if the approval is obtained ? -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >> The simplest way to do this is mentioned in the draft, namely, to have >> a new _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE hint, called _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NETBOOK_APP >> (f

[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ke to have inputs and suggestions on this issue before going ahead and making a proposal to the EWMH maintainers. Thanks, Sayamindu [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org

Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:43 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> S

Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
getting packages in the builds and doing a bit of testing. > > * Both patches contains string additions I guess (hopefully not > changes?). Someone would have to sort that out with sayamindu and the > localization team. String addtions ?

Re: [sugar] License your bundles, please!

2008-09-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
elopers to figure out the best way to do this. If they have a patch, or if the solution is easy enough, I'll patch our Pootle installation ASAP (we already have a Pootle upgrade coming up - I'm waiting for upstream to declare the RC as final). Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamind

Re: [sugar] Activity testing on current 8.2 build 759

2008-09-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Perhaps it's a result of mouse driver > changes? > > Erik http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8285 I added a few workarounds to make it usable. Morgan will probably make a new release (v21) soon with those patches. Once that is out, please p

Re: [sugar] Some extra information for Etoys translation

2008-08-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
rom > Scratch's to Etoys as a default. > > Sayamindu, could you run the script that push stuff from git to > Pootle, if the next 24 hour cycle is not too close? > Done. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 16

2008-08-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Terminal 16, available at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/terminal-activity/Terminal-16.tar.bz2 http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/terminal/Terminal-16.xo NEWS 16 * New and updated translations Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http

Re: [sugar] String freeze exception request: licensing info in about dialog

2008-08-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ce they are only string additions and it's important > to ship with a license. If approved I'll build a new sugar packages with > the changes and the eventual translations on 9/2, in time for OLPC freeze. > > +1 by me. > +1. We have to be a bit more careful with str

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ore jarring in case of RTL locales. I would say that this be made translateable, and I'm sure that the localization list would agree to a string freeze break for this. Localization list - any counter arguments on this ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.ran

Re: [sugar] [Localization] Control Panel -> Settings

2008-08-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
d we will have to make > small UI changes later, this will be just one of them. We need to be > more careful early in the release process to avoid these sort of > problems. > > I'm fine with changing the icon on the other hand. > marco +1 -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [ht

[sugar] The importance of having predictable release schedules for stable branches

2008-08-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
public. It also makes life easier for the translators, as we have quite a few teams who are giving more priority to the 0.82 branch right now. GNOME follows a similar system: eg. http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentythree Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org

Re: [sugar] sucrose-0.82 branches

2008-08-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
egorization system over the weekend. This is the first time we are doing this (properly), so I will need to take the Pootle server down for around 4-6 hours - I'll send out a notification tonight. I'm already working on the scripts which will handle the migration and setup. Cheers, Sayamind

[sugar] [RELEASE] Read 49

2008-08-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Read version 49, which can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/read-activity/Read-49.tar.bz2 http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/read/Read-49.xo NEWS 49 * New and updated translations Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http

[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 15

2008-08-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Terminal 15, available at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/terminal-activity/Terminal-15.tar.bz2 http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/terminal/Terminal-15.xo NEWS 15 * New and updated translations Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http

Re: [sugar] Our final release for Sugar 0.82, and handling translations

2008-08-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >> Hello Developers, >> >> I just finished sending out mails to most of our language team leads, >> reminding them to commit their translations. I

[sugar] Our final release for Sugar 0.82, and handling translations

2008-08-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
u may have in your mind. Thank you and have a great day, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [Localization] Untranslated timestamps in Journal

2008-08-01 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Read 48

2008-07-31 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, I have released Read version 48, which can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/read-activity/Read-48.tar.bz2 http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/read/Read-48.xo NEWS 48 * Translation updates Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http

[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 14

2008-07-31 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
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Re: [sugar] [Localization] How software updater will be translated?

2008-07-30 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
s the source code and PO on Pootle to translate? > > Cheers, > /Korakurider > ___ > Localization mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/r

Re: [sugar] Roadmap updates

2008-07-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>&

Re: [sugar] Roadmap updates

2008-07-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ners: Please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] list when you branch for the new cycle. Thank you, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] RTL blocker for 8.2.0?

2008-07-26 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
uld be marked as such (and there > might very well be more). > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6808 > Just FYI - machines which are shipped to Afghanistan/Pakistan will certainly need RTL support. -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://

Re: [sugar] [Localization] Feature/string freeze exception: Feedback for registration

2008-07-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
t is displayed in the > home > view that gives if information if the registration with the schoolserver > failed or > not. The code has been reviewed as well. > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6136 > > It contains some new strings - that is why i ask as well for this exceptio

[sugar] Notes from the GNOME Mobile BoF at GUADEC

2008-07-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, Dave Neary has posted his notes from the GNOME Mobile BoF which was held during GUADEC at Istanbul earlier this month. The summary is available online at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mobile-devel-list/2008-July/msg2.html Apologies for the cross-posting, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu

Re: [sugar] Write needs your help (was Re: Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
have been > correctly repackaged as .xo bundles won't even start. It appears that > switching to the Freedesktop.org startup notification system and a > modified metacity window manager may be able to resolve this. > Could you point me towards such a .xo bundle ? I will lov

Re: [sugar] 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
ave any questions. I'll do whatever leg work is > needed if I know who/where I can get verified information. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > > > ___ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/lis

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Localization team

2008-07-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
sword for users). Right now migration would take up too much man hours IMHO. I expect some of the issues to go away with time, and we might definitely revisit the migration plans sometime in the future, but for now, I would suggest that it would be a good idea to stick to whate

Re: [sugar] Sugar mtg reminder, 3rd July 2008 --- 17.00 UTC ---, irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2008-07-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
to normal by the time the final 0.82 release is made. The current Sugar translation stats, for example for Spanish is at https://dev.laptop.org/translate/es/xo_core/ and at https://dev.laptop.org/translate/es/xo_bundled Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http

Re: [sugar] Feature/string freeze exception.

2008-07-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
leaseTeam#Feature_freeze). > > Thanks for being patient during the process, >Simon > ___ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Terminal-13 is out

2008-07-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello everyone. A new version (version 13) of Terminal Activity has been released. You can get the sources at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/terminal-activity/Terminal-13.tar.bz2 This release contains new translations from our translator community. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu

[sugar] ReviewBoard up for reviewing

2008-07-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
enabled - can be done if you want that. Feel free to play around with the system. Thanks, Sayamindu [1] http://www.review-board.org/ -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Complete i18n support for sugar-base

2008-06-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Ok - modified and pushed into d.l.o. Thanks, Sayamindu On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the rest of the patch looks good to me. > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Complete i18n support for sugar-base

2008-06-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
> > I think that you need to add this to the top of mime.py: > > _ = lambda msg: gettext.dgettext('sugar-base', msg) > Yeah - that seems like a good idea. IIRC, I think we got bit by this towards the beginning of the year. Apart from that - does the p

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Complete i18n support for sugar-base

2008-06-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Thanks to Tomeu on IRC - here's the complete patch. Sorry for the noise :-) Thanks, Sayamindu On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patch attached. I also needed to add po/POTFILES.in (I'm not sure how > to make Git show that).

[sugar] [PATCH] Complete i18n support for sugar-base

2008-06-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Patch attached. I also needed to add po/POTFILES.in (I'm not sure how to make Git show that). Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] sugar_base_gettext_package.patch Description: Binary data ___

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Change GETTEXT_PACKAGE for sugar-toolkit

2008-06-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
rgrep dgettext src/ > src/sugar/activity/activity.py:_ = lambda msg: gettext.dgettext('sugar', msg) > src/sugar/graphics/alert.py:_ = lambda msg: gettext.dgettext('sugar', msg) > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta &

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