Dennis,
There is a project in Gitorious that sounds like it might be of use to you:
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugargame
I haven't tried it myself, but the description sounds promising.
James Simmons
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:42:15 -0500
> From: "Dennis Rodriguez (RIT Student)"
> Su
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> James,
>
> I completely agree. The book is no better than the code samples in
> it, and I consider the book a programming project as much as anything
> else. I probably spent more time creating the code samples and
> testi
Scott,
In the "Make Your Own sugar Activities!" book I'm doing at Floss
Manuals I do refer to "sugar-emulator" as something distinct from
sugar-jhbuild. For instance, I'll say, "If you're using sugar-jhbuild
under Fedora 11 do this, if you're using sugar-jhbuild do that." Even
though technically
Sascha,
I'm not sure that what you're proposing is any less confusing than
what we have now. In my opinion sugar-jhbuild IS an alternative to
sugar-emulator, at least if you define "sugar-emulator" as what is
provided as a Sugar environment by Fedora and other distros. You can
run either one and
Thomas,
You should be able to create your web page as a Journal entry with the
MIME type of text/html, then use code like that described here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore#How_do_I_resume_an_activity_from_the_datastore_programmatically.3F
That s
In this latest draft I have added a not quite complete chapter on
Making Shared Activities. The part that is missing is on using DBus
Tubes to remotely call methods, and it's missing because I've never
done it. I do plan to learn how to do this, come up with a decent
example program (something fa
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Aleksey Lim
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> > >> I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on
>> > >> adding Text to Speech to your Acti
James Simmons
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Sascha Silbe
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:25:07PM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
>
> [CC'ing sugar-devel again for NetworkManager advice]
>
>> It occured to me to check the logs of the SECOND Linux user I was
>> runing s
Thomas,
I did notice this morning that most of the 20 users I was seeing in my
Neighborhood has EXACTLY the same colors. They may well be the ghost
users you speak of.
I don't know if Gadget is the issue, but I do know that with .82
running on F10 I can't connect to JSLO, or rather I can but the
time to work on Sugar and getting the two of us on the
same schedule seems unlikely. I do have something working for now,
and I'll document everything I've learned in the book.
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Sascha Silbe
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010
n account and
log in as her. I have no such problem in F10.
I'm going to continue with the book as best I can under the circumstances.
James Simmons
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Sascha Silbe
wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:46:56PM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
>
&
ed if anyone else could see them.
James Simmons
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 23.01.2010, at 17:31, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>
>> Last night I attempted to begin the chapter in my book on
>> collaboration in Sugar. Some of my Activities do file
Last night I attempted to begin the chapter in my book on
collaboration in Sugar. Some of my Activities do file transfers so I
have had some experience with it before. It seems to me that setting
up a test environment for collaboration has always been a source of
frustration but I don't remember
Fran,
The book I referred to in my previous email to you recommends what I
use. It is a book for beginning Activity developers and may be of use
to you, even though it isn't finished. I would appreciate any
feedback you could give me on it.
James Simmons
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:42:14 -050
Francis,
Activities cannot be made to run as root. However, there should be no
need whatsoever to do this. You can download files from a website
using code like that in the "Get Internet Archive Books" activity.
That Activity uses http to download books from the Internet Archive
website.
The pe
#x27;s largest corporate foundations at L'Atelier
> (http://www.atelier.fr/usages/3/07012010/one-laptop-per-child-ordinateur-veritable-revolution-pedagogique-39192-.html)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> I just finished wr
inner's book. Maybe when this book is
out the door some more qualified person will do an advanced book
covering all the stuff I could not.
James Simmons
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> I just finis
Aleksey,
I did consider mentioning the word tracking feature you put in your
example. However, when I tried your example with actual book text
rather than letting it speak the source code of the program it seemed
to actually skip speaking some of the words. The markup version was
more robust.
T
ivities without fully understanding it. Your work has made speech
easy to add to an Activity, so maybe after the book is out we'll start
seeing more Activities that use it.
James Simmons
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim S
I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on
adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various
additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out
what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here:
http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/A
Aleksey,
Thanks for the new example. It cleared up everything except how the
original Read Etexts managed to do pause and resume, because your new
code is nothing like that. The old code didn't even use
gst..STATE_PAUSED anywhere. What you wrote was enough to get a
working example going, and I
Aleksey,
I'm writing a beginner's book on creating Sugar Activities over at
Floss Manuals. The URL is:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar/WebHome
I'm doing a chapter on adding Text To Speech to your Activity. I'm
using simplified versions of Read Etexts as sample code for
ommon use of Sugar in most homes and classrooms, and still far
>> from obvious.
>
> I would love to see some data that backs up that assertion.
>
> -walter
>
>> SJ
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>> Samuel,
>>>
&
0:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 12.01.2010, at 16:43, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>
>> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.11-23.05.32.pdf
>
> Very nice, Jim!
>
> It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Sugar activity should be
> writ
As many of you know, I've been working on a handbook for creating
Sugar Activities and I have added another couple of chapters to it (on
Pootle and distributing your Activity) and made numerous corrections
to earlier chapters, many of them based on suggestions you made.
Stuff still to do:
Text To
Simon,
Get IA Books does allow you to change the format of the book from the
default of DjVu. That drop down is disabled until you actually have a
book selected for downloading. Once you have selected a book from the
list it should enable itself and you can change the download format
before clic
Tomeu and David,
I experienced exactly the same problem with the Blueberry Boot Helper
CD that Dave has. The message is exactly the same. I reported it at
bugs.sugarlabs.org. I would be surprised if the problem was an
incomplete download.
I have had good success booting Blueberry directly from
hen I write the
collaboration chapter. As I said before, it's a programming project,
not just a book project. I think I'll learn a lot before this project
is done.
James Simmons
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 06.01.2010, at 20:50, Jim Simmons wrote:
>&
Thomas,
In the chapter "Adding Refinements I have some sample code for
creating, listing, and reading from Journal entries. I'll probably
add an example of deleting a Journal entry as well. And while I am no
expert in collaboration *yet* I will definitely be covering that in a
future chapter. I
Gary,
I don't have a Mac. My brother has one but lives in another state. I
know the latest Macs run a kind of Unix on Intel chips, but can they
run sugar-jhbuild? Or do you run Sugar in a VM of some kind? If you
browse through my chapters you'll see my way of doing things and maybe
you can giv
> Is Sugar on a Stick a suitable test environment for you? That is 0.86.
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Walter,
>>
>> I've used the import exception method myself. It looks like this will
>> be a bit more complicat
start though, and I think I can figure out the
rest. I could probably figure out the PyGame stuff too. It's the
"developing on a Mac" topic that has me stumped.
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ji
I've been working on a Floss Manual that should be a beginner's guide
to creating Sugar Activities. I've got 64 page's worth (in the PDF
version) written and I feel confident that I will finish this book
eventually. What I have now may be good enough to criticize. It
contains some pretty good co
Art,
I don't think your revised version is necessarily an improvement over
the original. It sounds "new-agey" to me and would probably offend
more people than the original.
While I am against *governments* endorsing specific religions
*individuals* certainly ought to be able to do that. If the
Sayamindu,
Last night I ran the same test on the same XO, no changes to anything,
and I was able to find every word I searched for and download PDFs
successfully. I can't account for why the other test failed. There
was nothing in the log to suggest anything.
I *did* notice some odd search resu
Sayamindu,
I tried out your new Get Books on my XO running the latest Fedora 12
install that came out last week. For comparison I ran the same tests
on the first version of Get Books which I got from the git clone of
Get IA Books that you made. I ran the old one on my Sugar test
environment on F
Steven,
I tried out build 9. It works for me, but has the following issues:
1). You MUST hold down the check button to get it to boot. If you
don't it goes to the "pretty boot" image with one dot and just hangs
there.
2). The gstreamer espeak plugin does not appear to be installed. The
Activ
Aleksey,
It would be helpful to have a way to distribute things like the
gstreamer espeak plugin you wrote. Fedora doesn't currently include
it. It would be even better if you could distribute versions that
work on the XO running .82, as well as versions for current Fedora.
Don't know if that wa
Sayamindu,
I followed your instructions to test Get Books on my XO. I had a USB
drive with the unzipped data you provided such that the XML file and
the "books" directory were in the root directory of the drive. I also
used the thumb drive to copy the Activity from the drive to the
Journal. The
a from next version, it will
> not cover all the formats from IA. I would prefer not to hard-code
> anything (since I'm handling a number of sources, hardcoding for a
> particular source will lead to a lot of messy code)
>
> Let me know what you think.
> Thanks,
> Sayami
Art,
I have been able to host .xo files on a web server in my home. It
was an Apache web server provided with my Linux distro and I did
nothing whatever to configure it for .xo files. I used this web
server on my development box so I could copy my Activities from my
development box to my XO wit
Sayamindu,
FYI, Read can't be launched from my Activity Ring either. The only
thing that works is the sugar-launch from the Terminal.
James Simmons
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Sayamindu,
>
> Didn't see any evidence of segfault in dmesg or she
Sayamindu,
Didn't see any evidence of segfault in dmesg or shell.log. However, I
tried out:
sugar-launch org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity
and it worked beautifully. Read gave me that ugly dialog that lets
you select a document from the Journal, I selected one of the PDFs,
and it loaded right up.
Sayamindu,
I've been having an odd problem with the Read activity on my XO
lately. I'd report it as a bug but I don't know how to recreate it or
give enough information to see where the problem is coming from. I'm
hoping you can help me diagnose what's happening.
You might remember giving me a
Samuel,
Read Etexts originally used speech-dispatcher and technically it still
can. However, Aleksey Lim wrote a plugin for using espeak with
gstreamer which works better than speech-dispatcher and does not
require the configuration that speech-dispatcher needs. He also
rewrote the TTS code in R
Carlo (and anyone else),
I want to do everything possible to help my Activities get properly
translated. Problem is, I'm not sure if there's something I should be
doing that I'm not doing. I have my Activities in pootle. I run
python setup.py genpot
when I add new Strings to the Activities.
Caroline,
We've seen a lot of student volunteers come and go, but I might be
willing to help this kid. One thing I need to know is what is meant
by "Remote programming type task?"
James Simmons
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:48:03 -0400
> From: Caroline Meeks
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] High School
Thanks for your feedback. Get Internet Archive Books has been
submitted for Pootle translation. I haven't done a git pull on it in
awhile, so it is possible that translation is already done and I
should release a new version. Read Etexts has been in Pootle awhile
and at least some of the menus s
Tomeu,
You can put me down as an XO owner that is willing to try new images
and file bug reports. I don't have any immediate plans to enhance my
three Activities so I should have time for other work.
James Simmons
> I personally think that making possible for XO-1 owners to upgrade to
> recent
nes.dk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:31:19AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>I have a similar question. What I want to know is, when I am finally
>>able to upgrade my XO from .82 to something better, wi
Art,
Sugar on the XO does not have a swap partition because swapping to
disk would quickly wear out the solid state drive. You'd have the
same problem on a thumb drive, plus swapping to a drive connected to a
USB 1.0 port would not be fast. Now the other idea of checking to see
if the computer h
Art,
Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you did with
my Pentium III because I've installed a USB 2.0 expansion card on it.
I haven't tried a Pe
Sebastian,
I have a similar question. What I want to know is, when I am finally
able to upgrade my XO from .82 to something better, will I use SoaS to
do it? Or will I be able to do upgrades over the network as I have
done in the past?
James Simmons
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:03:59 +0200
> F
My own two cents on Pulse Audio on Fedora 11: it doesn't work.
I recently upgraded my Freevo box to Fedora 11 and had MANY sound
related issues that were directly or indirectly caused by pulse audio.
Freevo of course uses mplayer to play movies. It needs to sync the
audio and the video to do tha
Tomeu,
I tried your suggestion to use datastore.mounts() and it was just what
I needed. I hope that stub stays in the API until we can get everyone
off .82.
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
> What about calling the mounts() method in the DS dbus serv
dely used, and for its deficiencies to be addressed, either by me or
> by others who are passionate about making this hardware more useful
> and/or entertaining to kids.
>
> -Ben
>
> On 2009-08-31, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Tomeu,
>>
>> I have to agree with you on this
Tomeu,
I have to agree with you on this point. I program in Java for a
living, and never programmed in Python before I got my XO. I can do
Java in my sleep, especially with the Eclipse IDE. Every time I need
to add a feature to my Activities I think about how I'd do it in Java
then translate th
something
robust and future-proof.
Any ideas? Thanks again,
James Simmons
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> Your suggestion was right on the money. When I run a simple program
> from Terminal that prints out the files it finds it goes through my SD
&
:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:50, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Walter,
>>
>> I tried deleting /etc/olpc-security but that had no effect, Even
>> rebooting after deleting olpc-security had no effect. I managed to
>> copy the log messages from my previous efforts to the clip
he top level window.
1251513267.186601 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
With /etc/olpc-security removed I only get the last two messages,
which we seem to get for ALL Activities.
When I comment out the lines in question the Activity works again.
Since the only line I'm
As I have mentioned in this list before, I am trying to make View
Slides able to get pictures that may or may not be in the Journal and
add them to a slide presentation. Under .82 objects in thumb drives
can be listed using the Data Store API, which was fine. In .84 you
cannot do that any more, b
For weeks now I have had two of the most popular Activities on ASLO:
View Slides and Read Etexts. Both of these were downloaded 2000+
times this week alone, and 20,000+ times total. I also have one of
the less popular Activities: Get Internet Archive Books, which has
been downloaded only a little
26, 2009 at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Eben,
>>
>> I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files
>> from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I
>> describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code
Eben,
I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files
from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I
describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code
will show objects on the root directory of a thumb drive. It won't
show *anything* on
Martin,
For what it's worth, I've experienced this running the Sugar test
environment in both Fedora 10 and 11. It would not seem to be
specific to .82. The way to reproduce the problem is to run the Sugar
environment in Xephyr (sugar-emulator). Do some stuff, then instead
of shutting down clea
Sascha,
To clarify, the Journal entry for View Slides contains a Zip file with
image files in it. I want to be able to create and update this Zip
file. I want to add images to it, either from the Journal or from
thumb drives. In .82 I could use one API for both. I will also
rename and delete i
Michael,
What it sounds like to me is that I will get read-only access to
/proc/mounts and to files and directories on removable media connected
to the USB ports. I can use ordinary Python IO to list directories
and read files and find out what is mounted. I can continue to use
the datastore API
hanks,
James Simmons
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Sascha
Silbe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:45:49AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:
>
>>> In View Slides I have some code that lists out what image files it
>>> finds in the Journal and puts the results in a table,
. Also, the code to add an image to the slide
show is broken on the XO but works fine in Fedora 10 and 11.
So it looks like I don't have a question after all.
James Simmons
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> In View Slides I have some code that lists out what image
Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> In View Slides I have some code that lists out what image files it
> finds in the Journal and puts the results in a table, with the idea
> that these images may be added to a slide show. Until now I have been
> just putting image
In View Slides I have some code that lists out what image files it
finds in the Journal and puts the results in a table, with the idea
that these images may be added to a slide show. Until now I have been
just putting image files in the root directory of a thumb drive and
have been using the code
Tomeu,
When Aleksey made changes to Read Etexts to support the gstreamer
espeak plugin he had written he made a clone of the Activity in
gitorious, and later this clone was merged back into the mainline. I
thought this worked pretty well from my standpoint because I could
look at his code before
n this case,
because some of the books in the results table have invalid addresses,
for reasons that I have no good way to deal with.
James Simmons
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:15:08AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Read Etexts only
Joshua,
Before you upgrade an Activity you need to remove the existing one
from the Journal. There is no way to overlay an old Activity with a
new one. Activities are self contained, so this is not as traumatic
as it would be with other popular desktop environments.
Read Etexts only does text t
Sumit,
I had a similar problem in Read Etexts and ended up solving it using a
similar approach to what you are proposing. I wanted my Activity to
save and restore the current page number. I ended up putting the page
number, preceded by a "P", at the end of my title. I used the "P" so
that title
Sumit,
I've experienced this on my own XO. One thing I've found that helps
in this situation is to remove the hidden file that Sugar puts on the
drive. I think it's named .olpc, but in any case it begins with a
period. Sometimes if this file is present the thumb drive will not
appear to be moun
I'm wondering if the options for sugar-emulator are documented
somewhere. I couldn't find anything.
This is what I'm trying to do: I need to do a desktop recording of
Sugar in action. When I try to do this with sugar-emulator running
with no options the window size is much too large to record
e
Eben,
I tried out this Bundle Activity just now. It isn't fully functional
and throws Keep errors. The concept of it seems sound though. If I
was to create a version of this I'd try to implement a subset of View
Slides, the part which enables a user to take images in the Journal
and add them to
Sascha,
With regards to Get Internet Archive Books and Read Etexts and View
Slides which create Journal entries, it wouldn't be that painful for
*me* but it might cause problems for our users. I don't mind updating
my own Activities for .86, but I'd like the users who download the
latest version
Bastien,
I'll try to do something on my own, time permitting. Thanks for your efforts.
James Simmons
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Caroline Meeks writes:
>
>> Sounds like you guys are on the right track.
>
> I won't be available for the next three weeks, so forgive my lack
but if
you want to download a color PDF you just need to change the option in
the combo box.
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Jim Simmons writes:
>
>> To open a djvu file in evince you need a plugin. This plugin is
>> in
Aleksey,
If I was responsible for this I'd cover my tracks better. I would
make Bastien's video insanely popular too.
I was paying at least some attention to these numbers and it bugs me
that I can't trust them. Oh, well.
James Simmons
> $ zcat data/access-2009072{0..6}.gz | grep -i
> 'downlo
?
James Simmons
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Luke Faraone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 15:36, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>
>> I too don't see much future in sugarizing existing QT or GTK apps.
>> Running
>> something like that is a bit like buying Windows 3.1 and
Benjamin,
I would agree on not having QT in Sugar. I use both QT and GTK
programs under Linux and while some QT programs are superior to their
GTK counterparts it isn't the toolkit that makes them superior. I too
don't see much future in sugarizing existing QT or GTK apps. Running
something lik
Caroline and Bastien,
What might work to show how many books are available is to do a search
on the word "boy" and another on the word "girl", then maybe "oz" and
"jules verne". Any one of these should return lots of titles. You
might also try "lincoln" or "washington" to show a bunch of non
fic
rk you can download a PDF instead. All IA books
should be available in that format as well.
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Jim Simmons writes:
>
>> What might be more suited to Caroline's purposes is a demo of Get
>> Interne
Bastien,
What might be more suited to Caroline's purposes is a demo of Get
Internet Archive Books, followed by demoing reading the downloaded
book in Read. In Fedora 11 I can use the Read Activity (I couldn't in
any other Sugar test environment I ever had). The advantage of doing
this is the boo
Caroline,
I still haven't heard from Dave C. I have downloaded the application
that Bastien used, haven't tried it yet but it looks straightforward
to use. It produces files using open formats, which can be converted
to the more popular non open formats. I should be able to create some
recordin
I checked ASLO recently and discovered the following statistics:
Read Etexts: 3,383 weekly downloads 7,124 total
View Slides: 3,048 weekly downloads 6,734 total
I can think of only two possible explanations:
1). Bastien's Read Etexts video became an Internet sensation. Hey,
he did a nice job
I was able to yum install it for Fedora too. Thanks!
James Simmons
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Bastien wrote:
> Jim Simmons writes:
>
>> What software do you use to create a video like this?
>
> I use gtk-recordmydesktop, a frontend to recordmydesktop, under Debian
Bastien,
What software do you use to create a video like this?
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Jim Simmons writes:
>
>> Nice video. Caroline was interested in creating a video about reading
>> in general in Sugar, so I am copying her
All,
In my own emails when I refer to "content bundles" I am not referring
to anything that Sugar Labs has proposed as a standard. I was just
thinking about how to deal with the Children's Book Library project,
how would I deal with the problem of distributing 2,000 books to
children without acce
Bastien,
Nice video. Caroline was interested in creating a video about reading
in general in Sugar, so I am copying her on this because it might be
of interest.
Glad you like the Activity. I should be releasing a new version that
fully supports annotations and highlighting soon.
Thanks again,
Gary,
I have no great love for .82, but at the moment there is no good way
to put .84 on an XO. .84 solves a lot of reading-related problems:
1). Useable support for Deja Vu in Read.
2). Custom Journal metadata that persists across a reboot (so the
Read Activity can remember what page I stopp
Gary,
I was thinking myself that enhancing Get Internet Archive Books to
deal with local zip files of books as well as the Internet would be a
possible approach. Currently GIAB produces and can be resumed from a
Journal entry but does nothing with it. I might change that so it can
be resumed fro
conduct of life". You would have a bunch
of zip files for different topics. These files would be distributed
on USB sticks.
Everything I have described could be made to work in .82.
James Simmons
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmon
but
> that's it so far. It's ok to have to use PDF on Sugar .82, since it
> does work but the performance seems to really be lacking - 20 secs for
> a page load! I understand djvu is 5-10 times faster so that's the way
> to go IMHO.
>
> I will copy these emails
Gary,
What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, and which
shows image files for book covers. The problem I have with USB
devices on the Journal is that they are listed in descending order by
the date and time they were created. Even a few hundred books on a
USB stick isn't all t
Yesterday I had an email exchange with Scotty Auble of the Rural
Design Collective project who have a list of 2,000 some odd books they
want to distribute to Sugar users without requiring them to have
Internet access. The thought I had was Zip archives with a catalog
file, perhaps in Dublin Core f
Albert,
It is possible to work with the Journal entries in the way you want
to. I've only done this in Python, in the View Slides Activity, but
it could be done other ways too I'm sure.
In View Slides I open a table that lists out all of the image files in
the Journal (which includes the Journal
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