keyboard symbols
I notice that some keyboards lack the multiplication and division symbols. Providing them for all kids would be good, even if they need to move elsewhere. Other useful things found in Unicode: bullet star heart smiley skull-and-crossbones musical flat musical natural musical sharp copyright symbol registered trademark symbol trademark symbol check mark dagger double dagger not equals symbol degree symbol pi alpha phi omega therefore symbol center dot (math) set union symbol set intersection symbol plus or minus symbol power of -1 power of 2 spade clubs diamond ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: keyboard symbols
On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:15 , Albert Cahalan wrote: I notice that some keyboards lack the multiplication and division symbols. Providing them for all kids would be good, even if they need to move elsewhere. Why those? They are not used universally. At least German kids are taught to use · (centered dot) for multiplication and : (colon) for division. And for real math formulae you don't need those either. I agree that having easy access to more symbols is useful, though I doubt it makes sense to put them all onto the keycaps. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: keyboard symbols
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:15 , Albert Cahalan wrote: I notice that some keyboards lack the multiplication and division symbols. Providing them for all kids would be good, even if they need to move elsewhere. Why those? They are not used universally. And even in places where they are used, like the US, they fall into disuse when you get to algebra. The multiplication symbol is too much like the variable x, and the division symbol is replaced by numerator-over-denominator notation. At least German kids are taught to use · (centered dot) for multiplication and : (colon) for division. And for real math formulae you don't need those either. I agree that having easy access to more symbols is useful, though I doubt it makes sense to put them all onto the keycaps. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: keyboard symbols
On 10/9/07, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:15 , Albert Cahalan wrote: I notice that some keyboards lack the multiplication and division symbols. Providing them for all kids would be good, even if they need to move elsewhere. Why those? They are not used universally. And even in places where they are used, like the US, they fall into disuse when you get to algebra. The multiplication symbol is too much like the variable x, and the division symbol is replaced by numerator-over-denominator notation. 1. The target audience is mostly below algebra. 2. The cross product is used in college. At least German kids are taught to use · (centered dot) for multiplication and : (colon) for division. And for real math formulae you don't need those either. Well, you have the colon, and I did suggest the centered dot. I forgot the infinity symbol. In case anybody wonders, the list comes from the symbols that tend to show up in character set standards. I picked though many of those while making a font. infinity symbol multiplication symbol division symbol bullet star heart smiley skull-and-crossbones musical flat musical natural musical sharp copyright symbol registered trademark symbol trademark symbol check mark dagger double dagger not equals symbol degree symbol pi alpha phi omega therefore symbol center dot (math) set union symbol set intersection symbol plus or minus symbol power of 2 spade clubs diamond ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Auto loading of a usb key
Hi, Would the sugar environment automatically mount the a usb key eventually or would we have to manually mount it? -Ankita ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] Auto loading of a usb key
--- ankita prasad wrote: Hi, Would the sugar environment automatically mount the a usb key eventually or would we have to manually mount it? -Ankita --- end of quote --- This already occurs. When a USB stick is plugged into the XO, it is mounted and shows up in the journal. You are also able to unmout the USB stick from the journal. - AlexL ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: font size when running under emulation?
To get 1200x900 when running under emulation, you can use Xephry as a remote X display. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Help_and_tips#Run_a_Xephyr_remote_X_display http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_set_up_for_development_on_linux_emulation#getting_1200x900 Mitchell ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: font size when running under emulation?
On Oct 9, 2007, at 16:46 , Mitchell N Charity wrote: To get 1200x900 when running under emulation, you can use Xephry as a remote X display. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/ Help_and_tips#Run_a_Xephyr_remote_X_display http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ How_to_set_up_for_development_on_linux_emulation#getting_1200x900 That's a real hassle to setup on Mac and even more so on Windows. If I'm running on Linux I can as well use sugar-jhbuild (which in fact I do). - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
stderr/stdout msgs in sugar
Hello everyone, when debugging an activity how does one get stderr/stdout messages from Python in sugar. It is quite hard to debug blindly, not knowing what errors Python is spewing out. Thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: stderr/stdout msgs in sugar
Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hello everyone, when debugging an activity how does one get stderr/stdout messages from Python in sugar. It is quite hard to debug blindly, not knowing what errors Python is spewing out. Start your activity from a developer's console (ALT-=) using: sugar-activity YourActivityName and the console should be treated as stdin/out/err for your activity. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers#How_do_I_test_a_Sugar_activity.3F HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [PATCH] xkeyboard-config: Swap combining accents in OLPC us map
Bernardo,
Thanks, committed. Next time - could you please attach your patch
instead of putting it straight into the message body? Or we could open
a bug - and keep it open (forever) till all olpc materials are in.
Thanks,
Sergey
On 10/9/07, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for this heavy traffic :-)
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.36 us
--- symbols/us 4 Oct 2007 21:06:29 - 1.36
+++ symbols/us 8 Oct 2007 23:33:10 -
@@ -783,8 +783,8 @@ xkb_symbols olpc {
key TLDE { [ grave, asciitilde,dead_grave, dead_tilde ] };
key AE01 { [ 1, exclam,exclamdown, exclamdown ] };
key AE02 { [ 2, at, notsign,notsign ] };
- key AE03 { [ 3, numbersign, 0x1000301, 0x1000301 ] }; //
combining acute
- key AE04 { [ 4, dollar, 0x1000300, 0x1000300 ] }; //
combining grave
+ key AE03 { [ 3, numbersign, 0x1000300, 0x1000300 ] }; //
combining grave
+ key AE04 { [ 4, dollar, 0x1000301, 0x1000301 ] }; //
combining acute
key AE05 { [ 5,percent, 0x1000306, 0x1000306 ] }; //
combining breve above
key AE06 { [ 6,asciicircum, 0x100030A, 0x100030A ] }; //
combining ring above
key AE07 { [ 7, ampersand, 0x1000302, 0x1000302 ] }; //
combining circumflex above
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New build 616
Build 616 ChangeLog Base OS: - kernel - 2.6.22 - 20071009.1.olpc.ec54a65da6de043 * dcon: update SDRAM timing settings for version2 dcon (dilinger) * dcon: don't yet BUG() on C1 dcon errors (dilinger) * dcon: work around smbus hardware bug (dilinger) * geode: lxfb: fix blanking (dilinger) * [JFFS2] Trigger garbage collection when very_dirty_list size becomes excessive (dwmw2) * [MTD] [NAND] Avoid deadlock in erase callback; release chip lock first. (dwmw2) * [MTD] [NAND] Restore correct timing register values on resume.(dwmw2) - sugar-datastore - 0.2.2 - b603f340b2 * Request binary data as dbus.ByteArray. (tomeu) * #3351 Modify the entry paddings so that text can be drawn on a larger area. * #3180: Recreate the index on mount failure of only removable devices. (tomeu) * Offset support. (bcsaller) * #3180: Recreate the index on mount failure of only removable devices. (tomeu) * Do not index binaries. (bcsaller) * Really fix offset. (bcsaller) * Don't mount automatically at start. (tomeu) * Exit cleanly when dbus goes down. (marco) - sugar - 0.65 - 143f9ac9c6 * Save activity previews to the datastore as binary png images. (tomeu) * Increase mount timeout to work around jffs2 issues. (marco) * Temporary disable thumbnails. (marco) Activities: - Journal - 59 * Reduce the cache size to 80. (marco) -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/changelogs ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EDT Boston)
We'll do IRC again at: irc.freenode.net, #olpc-meeting. The roadmap and schedule have seen some revision: see trac for details. ***Please** go through trac, comment and close bugs that are done. Please push bugs for first deployment. If you aren't sure, put the bugs into untriaged and we'll get you feedback. Please examine at least the blocker and high priority bugs, for Trial-3. You can easily use the query page in trac to see what open issues you have. http://dev.laptop.org has a number of common useful queries. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10day=9year=2007hour=21min=0sec=0p1=43 Status Suspend/resume status Priorities What's left for Trial-3? What's left for MP Blockers for Trial-3 https://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assignedstatus=newstatus=reopenedorder=prioritypriority=blockermilestone=Trial-3col=idcol=summarycol=statuscol=ownercol=typecol=component Power management http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedkeywords=powerorder=priority Please send any agenda items. -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Where I can download source code of OFW for OLPC?
Dear list, Can anybody here kindly let me know where I can download OFW source code for OLPC? Under * *http://dev.laptop.org/git there is comments says No commits. Thanks a lot, Kein ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Where I can download source code of OFW for OLPC?
svn://openbios.org/openfirmware Build by make in cpu/x86/pc/olpc/build Kein Yuan wrote: Dear list, Can anybody here kindly let me know where I can download OFW source code for OLPC? Under _ _http://dev.laptop.org/git there is comments says No commits. Thanks a lot, Kein ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
