[sugar] [RELEASE] Write 56

2008-08-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/write-activity/Write-56.tar.bz2 bundled: http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/0.81.6/Write-56.xo - Translation update Best, Simon ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

[sugar] [RELEASE] Log 11

2008-08-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/log-activity/Log-11.tar.bz2 bundled: http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/0.81.6/Log-11.xo * Translations update Best, Simon ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/list

Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty

2008-08-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed > ctl-alt-erase in order to "restart" Sugar. Both times. when Sugar > came up, the Journal screen told me 'Your journal is empty'. > > If "unwanted empt

[sugar] Sucrose 0.81.6 Development Release

2008-08-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
The new Sucrose 0.81.6 Development Release is out! This is Release Candidate 2 [1]. This cycle was again about stabilizing the release. Thanks to all the translators we were able to get many new translations in. All the Fructose modules have been released containing the new strings. Thanks for

Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty

2008-08-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed >> ctl-alt-erase in order to "restart" Sugar. Both times. when Sugar >> came

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-08-01 Thread Release Team
= Approved requests = Journal with time filters (most commonly 'past week') scrolling behaviour anomaly http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7234 ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty

2008-08-01 Thread Shikhar
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed >> ctl-alt-erase in order to "restart" Sugar. Both times. when Sugar >> came up, the Journal screen told me 'Your journal is

Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty

2008-08-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Shikhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed >>> ctl-alt-erase in order to "restart" Sugar. B

Re: [sugar] [RELEASE] Write 56

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Edmund Sevior
Hi Simon, Which version of libabiword does this release use? Thanks! Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Simon Schampijer Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 5:15 PM To: Sugar List Subject: [sugar] [RELEASE] Write 56 sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources

Re: [sugar] [RELEASE] Write 56

2008-08-01 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 02:08 +1000, Martin Edmund Sevior wrote: > > Hi Simon, > Which version of libabiword does this release use? > > Thanks! Write has no dependency on a specific release of libabiword. Any 2.6.x will do. The question should be: which version of libabiword is on the i

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Bastien
Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: >> It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the >> dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by >> delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:21:34PM +0200, Bastien wrote: > Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: > >> It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the > >> dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt wi

Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-08-01 Thread Bobby Powers
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM, FFM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:20:44PM -0400, Kimberley Quirk wrote: >> I don't think we want it to auto launch, but perhaps it should be the first >> icon on the left. >> >> Thoughts on that? > > I havn't used joyride in a while, but I

[sugar] "how to try Sugar page"

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
We need to put together a simple "how to try Sugar" page in the wiki that is less geeky than the http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_system page. Any thoughts on this? thanks. -walter ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/l

[sugar] obsolete activity bundles are being packaged into current Joyride builds

2008-08-01 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Happened to notice *two* entries for the same Activity (different versions) in the list view of Home. [I don't know *how* that happened to come about.] Investigated, and found that while I had manually (with 'sugar-install-bundle) installed the current version of that Activity, there was also

Re: [sugar] "how to try Sugar page"

2008-08-01 Thread FFM
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > We need to put together a simple "how to try Sugar" page in the wiki > that is less geeky than the http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_system > page. Any thoughts on this? > > thanks. I'll be happy to write one up, although the earlie

[sugar] video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-01 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
G1G1, Joyride 2241. In one Terminal session started mplayer -- it was playing a movie. Went to another Terminal session, and entered some commands. Noticed that not all of the text on that screen was equally distinct - some of it was paler than others. Noticed that *which* text was paler ch

Re: [sugar] "how to try Sugar page"

2008-08-01 Thread Bryan Kearney
FFM wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >> We need to put together a simple "how to try Sugar" page in the wiki >> that is less geeky than the http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_system >> page. Any thoughts on this? >> >> thanks. > > I'll be happy to write one up

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

2008-08-01 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Adding sugar-list to the CC list. I can see this as well - and it seems to affect the activity list (from the home screen) too.. Thanks, Sayamindu On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running joyride-2240 but timestamps in Journal aren't translated, > thou

Re: [sugar] "how to try Sugar page"

2008-08-01 Thread FFM
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > FFM wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >>> We need to put together a simple "how to try Sugar" page in the wiki >>> that is less geeky than the http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_system >>> page. A

[sugar] preliminary [PATCH] and discussion for #5657: activity isolation for all activities in ~/Activities

2008-08-01 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
Problem: anything named "Journal", "Terminal", "Log", or "Analyze" is not isolated. This is the biggest security hole we have right now: it is a trivial way for any activity to get root access. Idea: as a short-term hack (until we have good cryptographic signatures for activities), only turn off i

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] Things I would like taken away from the wiki: Sign-up lists

2008-08-01 Thread FFM
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: > There are few policies that we've been implementing from time to time on the > wiki that I would like to see go away. It's my belief that these policies > are hard to maintain, ill-scalable, and unsupportable as-is. I suggest that

Re: [sugar] "how to try Sugar page"

2008-08-01 Thread Eben Eliason
Heh, you could turn it into a little "choose your own Sugar adventure" game... Just narrow the options down to a decision tree with, perhaps, 2-3 levels max, and have very general questions like: "Are you familiar with (or have you run) Linux before?" [YES] [NO] Where [YES] and [NO] naturally jum

Re: [sugar] Difference between Sugar-Launch and launching from the ring

2008-08-01 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Alex Levenson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing a physics problem solving game: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X2o > > It runs fine when I launch it from the command line (Terminal Activity > as user olpc) via sugar-launch. It works regardless of the current > working directory. > > But, it hangs when I

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] Things I would like taken away from the wiki: Sign-up lists

2008-08-01 Thread Seth Woodworth
> > > create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function > > (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be > ecstatic. > > Such bots are in existance on the english wikipedia, they are also open > source. > > The issue is that people don't know how easy it is

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] Things I would like taken away from the wiki: Sign-up lists

2008-08-01 Thread FFM
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:21:37PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: > > > > > create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function > > > (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be > > ecstatic. > > > > Such bots are in existance on the english wikipedia, they ar

Re: [sugar] Difference between Sugar-Launch and launching from the ring

2008-08-01 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Alex Levenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the Terminal Activity, from any directory. Usually from the activity's > directory, but it works from anywhere (I've tried). Do you have the same problem with other activities? If so please open a ticket about this. Ma

[sugar] ATTN Activity Authors/Owners: Default activity icon colors

2008-08-01 Thread Eben Eliason
Ticket #7741 [1] points out that inconsistencies in the default colors of activity icons appear in the filter of the Journal. This is Sugar's fault, not yours. Unfortunately, we can't adjust the APIs as needed in order to fix this correctly for 8.2, and so we instead humbly request that all activ

Re: [sugar] [OLPC Security] preliminary [PATCH] and discussion for #5657: activity isolation for all activities in ~/Activities

2008-08-01 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Problem: anything named "Journal", "Terminal", "Log", or "Analyze" is not > > isolated. This is the biggest security hole we have right

Re: [sugar] video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 01/08/08 15:00 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > G1G1, Joyride 2241. In one Terminal session started mplayer -- it > was playing a movie. Went to another Terminal session, and entered > some commands. Noticed that not all of the text on that screen was > equally distinct - some of it was pal

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] Things I would like taken away from the wiki: Sign-up lists

2008-08-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:54 PM, FFM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: >> There are few policies that we've been implementing from time to time on the >> wiki that I would like to see go away. It's my belief that these policies >> are hard

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Bastien
Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe what I'm suggesting boils down to integrate this core activities >> in the environment so that people installing Sugar won't have to install >> them separatly. Just the same way that installing a standard Fedora >> will install Gnome (will instal

Re: [sugar] video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-01 Thread Albert Cahalan
Jordan Crouse writes: > Video is muxed to the visible screen through the use of a color key - > given a rectangle of some size, the hardware compares all of the pixels > in that rectangle against a set color - if they match, then a pixel of > the video frame is shown, otherwise not. That should h

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Sevior
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:12 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:37 +1000, Martin Edmund Sevior wrote: > > > > Thanks Tomeu and Eben. Yes, we'll need to expand the abiwidget api. > > I'll look to do this if I can can get sugar-jhbuild to work again. > > That, or we could just add

[sugar] SOM posted for July Sugar list activity

2008-08-01 Thread Gary C Martin
For those curious, I just posted the Sugar Self Organising Map (SOM) for the month of July: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/SOM#Sugar_Mailing_List --Gary ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Bug in sugar-jhbuild

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Sevior
When building attempting to build sugar in sugar-jhbuild I get this configure error on my F9 box. checking for intltool >= 0.33... awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `./intltool-update.in' for reading (No such file or directory) awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `./intltool-update.i

Re: [sugar] Difference between Sugar-Launch and launching from the ring

2008-08-01 Thread Bobby Powers
can you post the logs? 2008/8/1 Alex Levenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the Terminal Activity, from any directory. Usually from the activity's > directory, but it works from anywhere (I've tried). > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Alex Leve

Re: [sugar] Bug in sugar-jhbuild

2008-08-01 Thread Bobby Powers
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When building attempting to build sugar in sugar-jhbuild I get this > configure error on my F9 box. > > checking for intltool >= 0.33... awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open > file `./intltool-update.in' for reading (No suc

[sugar] [Fwd: Re: Bug in sugar-jhbuild]

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Sevior
Forwarded Message From: Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [sugar] Bug in sugar-jhbuild Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:50:30 +1000 On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 23:49 -0400, Bobby Powers wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Jerry Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. I wouldn't go quite that far. The holes in RPM drove me to Debian. %-[ > With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it > complains and won't