Re: keyboarding as a requirement
For accessibility and disability rights, my guess is a more generic mastery of the input device would be better, as some will have to point n peck ( anoteable wheelchair physics genius comes to mind, but not his name, as does Richard Feynman though he probably just modified the electrical signals directly with his mind, sniffle) Alas some of the rest of us will be more productive with higher WPM baud type rate --- Please excuse the typing, very small keyboard... On Nov 10, 2013, at 14:04, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: This was on NPR, here in San Francisco. http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201311081630/c While I don't buy into all of the Common Core mumbo jumbo in the US (my kid has to go through this, so we are dealing with it as parents), the importance of keyboards is interesting. They didn't point out to onscreen vs tactile, but the importance of tactile keyboards for children is an important consideration. Maybe keyboarding will go away altogether once we can speak to our computers like Captain Picard does for his Tea, Earl Grey, hot, but we are not there yet. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ 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: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for [base], see http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/README#n46 Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 11:38 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for [base], see http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/README#n46 Or use TinyCore's xo-custom plugin to make the customizations to an existing image on an unlocked XO. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/mktinycorexo/HOWTO.xo-custom Jerry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4
I made the changes but how do we set the key combination to invoke the nepali layout. We need to have english as default and then nepali as and when required. -Basanta On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 5:03 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:08:18AM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: But I am still wondering how we could alter/change the stored data to our preference or if we can do it ourselves. Please suggest. At the firmware ok prompt [1], you may change the tag values [2], for example; ok tags( ok delete-tag KL ok add-tag KL np ok delete-tag KV ok add-tag KV olpc2 ok )tags The )tags command will force a reboot. If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. References: 1. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ok 2. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_Data_Specification#Defined_Tags -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4
D On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for [base], see http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/README#n46 Doing it via olpc-os-builder would be easier especially when we be having more than 200 laptops to work on. This way we won't have to deal with each and every laptop. So the lines I would have to add would be following : [base] default_language=us default_kbd_model=us default_kbd_layout=us default_kbd_variant=np But where do we set the key combination to switch between default and nepali. I would like to assign alt+space or alt+shift as combination. Note: We need to set default layout to english. Nepali input is only required for few activities in Epaath and for typing document in Nepali. -basanta ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Few sugar activities crashes
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: You should check where are you getting the list of activities and versions. In the file olpc-os-13.2.0-xo4.ini you have a section: [sugar_activity_group] url=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 The activities that get installed doesn't match the version shown on above link. I wonder why. this url points to a page with the activities and versions to download. If you want try, I am working with a cloned repository https://github.com/godiard/olpc-os-builder/tree/v7.0 with the last version of sugar, many activities updates, and a few changes implemented for the Australia deployment. Gonzalo Yes I am giving it a try. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: HI, On my 13.2.0 build, few activities like peppy, write, terminal doesn't work. When I uninstall the default version of terminal ( version 41) and install terminal-40.xo, it works. But when I try to generate image by putting version 40 under /usr/share/doc/olpc-os-builder-7.0.0/examples/activities/ it doesn't install. I always use olpc-os-builder --cache-only olpc-os-13.2.0-xo4.ini. I was wondering will removing --cache-only in the above command will look for new terminal version and solve the issue? Or is there a way to exclude installing some sugar activities through olpc-os.13.2.0.xo4.ini file ? so that I can test and install the ones that works? Please suggest. Regards, Basanta Shrestha ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Basanta Shrestha Network Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal Tel: +977.1.551, 5520075 Ext. 303 Cell: +977.9818 605110 http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Few sugar activities crashes
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:25:22AM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: You should check where are you getting the list of activities and versions. In the file olpc-os-13.2.0-xo4.ini you have a section: [sugar_activity_group] url=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 The activities that get installed doesn't match the version shown on above link. I wonder why. Cache between you and our web server? Try this instead: url=http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Activities/G1G1 (I have not tried this.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4
The laptops(XO-4) have arrived but it turns out the keyboard is the other one the rubber one (Improved Membrane Keyboard ?). -Basanta On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: D On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for [base], see http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/README#n46 Doing it via olpc-os-builder would be easier especially when we be having more than 200 laptops to work on. This way we won't have to deal with each and every laptop. So the lines I would have to add would be following : [base] default_language=us default_kbd_model=us default_kbd_layout=us default_kbd_variant=np But where do we set the key combination to switch between default and nepali. I would like to assign alt+space or alt+shift as combination. Note: We need to set default layout to english. Nepali input is only required for few activities in Epaath and for typing document in Nepali. -basanta -- Basanta Shrestha Network Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal Tel: +977.1.551, 5520075 Ext. 303 Cell: +977.9818 605110 http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Few sugar activities crashes
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: You should check where are you getting the list of activities and versions. In the file olpc-os-13.2.0-xo4.ini you have a section: [sugar_activity_group] url=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 this url points to a page with the activities and versions to download. If you want try, I am working with a cloned repository https://github.com/godiard/olpc-os-builder/tree/v7.0 with the last version of sugar, many activities updates, and a few changes implemented for the Australia deployment. Abacus-53.xo is breaking. Gonzalo On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Basanta Shrestha basanta.shres...@olenepal.org wrote: HI, On my 13.2.0 build, few activities like peppy, write, terminal doesn't work. When I uninstall the default version of terminal ( version 41) and install terminal-40.xo, it works. But when I try to generate image by putting version 40 under /usr/share/doc/olpc-os-builder-7.0.0/examples/activities/ it doesn't install. I always use olpc-os-builder --cache-only olpc-os-13.2.0-xo4.ini. I was wondering will removing --cache-only in the above command will look for new terminal version and solve the issue? Or is there a way to exclude installing some sugar activities through olpc-os.13.2.0.xo4.ini file ? so that I can test and install the ones that works? Please suggest. Regards, Basanta Shrestha ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Basanta Shrestha Network Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal Tel: +977.1.551, 5520075 Ext. 303 Cell: +977.9818 605110 http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
[Server-devel] xsce feature propossal
Hi I just created a new feature page for adding an audience response system to xsce: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/Features/Audience_response_system The software I'm working with is this one, and has a gplv3 license: http://ripple-core.uoregon.edu/ Ask at #schoolserver irc channel for a demo url. /santi -- Santiago Collazo Sysadmin Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com Facebook: https://activitycentral.com/facebook Google+: https://activitycentral.com/googleplus Twitter: https://activitycentral.com/twitter ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Listing subpages on the feature page
Hi, Think there's a minor issue with the page here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/feature Although the table looks very nice, it has to be manually edited. Before there was a subpage listing, which listed all subpages automatically. Think that should still exist, but the table can be the main source of reference. Or we should have a clearly defined process saying anyone proposing a feature add themselves to the table :-) Best, Anish ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
