Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke,

I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email 
(subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some digging found 
it had been clobbered as junk email, so not sure who else this may have hit, 
but thought it worth mentioning.

Regards,
--Gary

On 10 Jul 2011, at 23:45, Luke Faraone wrote:

 On 06/14/2011 05:42 PM, Luke Faraone wrote:
 This is a vote to determine the suggested license for future releases
 of Sugar. This poll will run from right now until Wed Jun 29 2011 at 
 midnight UTC-4.
 
 Sorry for the late update; the reporting mechanism for our voting
 software temporarily broke.
 
 Summary: the winner was **GNU GPL version 3, or any later version**.
 
 ## Results Details ##
 
 55 out of 217 eligible members voted, or a little more than ¼.
 
 The full results of this election ranked the candidates in order of
 preference (from most preferred to least preferred):
 
 1. GNU GPL version 3, or any later version
 2. GNU GPL version 2, or any later version
 3. Don't know or don't care
 
 
 Each number in the table below shows how many times the candidate on the
 left beat the matching candidate on the top. The winner is on the top of
 the left column.
   v3  v2  DC
 v3--  34  37
 v221  --  42
 DC18  13  --
 
 Based on a sheer count of 1st place votes, v3 received 49% of the vote,
 v2 received 29% of the vote, and the apathetic position received the
 remaining 22% of the vote.
 
 Full details (and alternative election method calculations) are visible
 at the Selectricity page linked in the original voting ticket email.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Luke Faraone
 Sugar Labs, Systems
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 I: lfaraone on irc.freenode.net
 
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Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke,

On 11 Jul 2011, at 16:43, Luke Faraone wrote:

 On 07/10/2011 10:23 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
 I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email
 (subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some
 digging found it had been clobbered as junk email, so not sure who
 else this may have hit, but thought it worth mentioning.
 
 Odd. Did you at least get the mail from Selectricity?

Not that I was aware of, but I just did a search for selectricity and found a 
June 15th email [Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding)] Election 
Begun! again tagged as spam and unread. I'm using gmail, it usually does an 
excellent job with spam, so something's clearly triggered their filters.

--Gary

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Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] A heads up for the major changes that will appear in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5

2010-12-30 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter,

On 28 Dec 2010, at 21:17, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 I just thought I would give people a heads up for changes that I'm
 aware of that are going to be appearing in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5.
 
 The big one will be gnome3/gtk3 plus the associated changes that will
 come with the required pygtk / gobject-introspection (Tomeu could you
 possibly fill out some of the impact of this?), I'm somewhat concerned
 about this actually but time will tell.

This is the monstrous gaping maw of doom, from my perspective. Just about every 
Activity and much of the Sugar UI will break. Hopefully some of the fixes may 
be cookie cutter applied once we've worked through a few. It'll be a red flag 
day for all Activities, as once fixed up, they will be incompatible with past 
Sugar releases (up to now it has been largely possible for an Activity to run 
on all past Sugar releases).

Tomeu mentioned the idea of a Sugar hackathon event of some kind to try and fix 
up as much as possible.

Regards,
--Gary

 Also on the cards is the following:
 - csound 5.12.1 (in rawhide now - please test)
 - systemd - new init startup - I don't this affects us directly in
 that we don't have any specific custom services that depend on it
 (although it might affect olpc)
 - /var/run and /var/lock mounted as tmpfs (likely no affect as the last one)
 - Replace setuid applications with File Capabilities in order to make
 them more secure (again I don't think anything will be affected)
 
 All the current approved Fedora 15 features can be found here [1]
 
 If anyone else knows of anything else that might affect the release,
 or if anyone has queries or more information to add please speak up.
 
 Regards,
 Peter
 
 [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF15
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Re: [SoaS] the final sprint to SoaS 4

2010-10-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Oct 2010, at 09:49, Peter Robinson wrote:

 On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 We're on the final sprint to SoaS v4
 
 Adam Williamson has created some testing guidelines for Fedora QA for
 Sugar desktop testing. You can find details here [1] and feedback
 would be greatly appreciated so we can improve this for the Fedora 15
 / SoaS v5 cycle.
 
 [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_TC1_Desktop
 
 From the discussion (that I remember) that Simon, Thomas and I had the
 other night these were the issues we had:
 - Terminal issues - fixed with vte 0.26.1 release that will be in
 stable tomorrow
 - Physics issues - New version here please test
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-physics-7-1.fc14
 - gnome-keyring issue. Not fixed yet. Helped wanted. I'm going to try
 and get time to look at this further today.
 - Read issue - Going to look at it today
 
 Looking through the rest of the list here [2] I'm not sure if there's
 anything else that's not specific to the XO hardware other than issues
 with Paint and Colors which I'm not sure what the status is.
 
 If there's anything else please speak up NOW!.
 
 So today's build (in fact last nights I think) should have the
 telepathy stuff. Can we please get testing and karma on the following
 please:
 
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-physics-7-1.fc14
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-turtleart-100-1.fc14
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/etoys-4.1.2390-1.fc14
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-toolkit-0.90.2-1.fc14,sugar-0.90.3-1.fc14,sugar-browse-119-1.fc14
 
 There is a known crash on exit on the new physics, I'm not sure of the
 state of a fix for this.

FWIW, testing on an XO-1 with Simon's F14 based 0.90 os17.img I'm also seeing 
Browse terminate with a signal 6 when Stopped. Been testing other activities to 
see if there's a pattern but nothing else yet (Implode, Turtle Art, Memorize, 
Write, Speak, Moon, Maze, Calculate, Pippy, all correctly terminate with status 
0)

--Gary

 
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Re: [SoaS] Missing gettext dependency needed for localised activities

2010-09-27 Thread Gary Martin
On 23 Sep 2010, at 08:49, Simon Schampijer wrote:

 On 09/21/2010 07:22 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
 Hi Simon,
 
 On 20 Sep 2010, at 11:30, Simon Schampijer wrote:
 
 On 09/18/2010 04:01 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
 On 18 Sep 2010, at 10:52, pbrobin...@gmail.compbrobin...@gmail.com   
 wrote:
 
 On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Gary C Martin
 garycmar...@googlemail.com   wrote:
 Hi Folks,
 
 Just wanted to email this ticket out and make sure the gettext package 
 makes it into the Soas and Dextrose distros. Without it none of the 
 activity po files will be built at bundle install time, thus failing to 
 create the locale directory binary .mo files. Without this, activity 
 translations will not work. This appears to be a break going back to at 
 least Soas Mirabelle.
 
 Yep, it was dropped in Mirabelle because it pulled in horrific
 dependencies and when I asked about it I was told it was historical
 and that all the Activities should be pre-generating the translations
 and that they shouldn't generated on local install.
 
 Ouch, that is news to me, no wonder activity localization is broken. Can 
 you point me to the thread/ticket/wiki with that discussion? Including the 
 binary .mo locale files in the source and/or .xo bundles is, to the best 
 of my knowledge, not the usual workflow for activity releases.
 
 When you use the sugar tools it should just work fine:
 ./setup.py dist_source will create a tarball with just the *.po files.
 
 Oooh, so it does, learn't something new today, thanks :)
 
 Excellent :)
 
 ./setup.py dist_xo will create the bundle with a locales folder that 
 contains the .mo for the activity.
 
 Hmmm, now the question is does dist_xo build the locale folder and then make 
 the bundle with it in, or do you have to manually build first before dist_xo?

Thinking about it some more, whatever the case, without gettext I guess this 
still make Soas and Dextrose distributions broken for anyone hoping to do a 
little activity development/tinkering.

 I've just looked through a mix of past .xo releases of mine, some have 
 locale directories and some don't (aargh!). I'm pretty sure I alway use 
 ./setup.py dist_xo on an XO-1 running an official OLPC 0.82 or 0.84 to build 
 my official .xo bundle releases.
 
 The code should do the right thing [1]. And from my testing it works fine as 
 well. Not sure what might have went wrong on your end :/ Can you retry?

Not sure yet, I'm still away from my flat, and the XO-1 (0.82) I usually do a 
final release from is up there, need to look through the ~/Activities directory 
to check the .xo bundle contents vs the directories I was using dist_xo from.

FWIW, I've just gone through the 42 activities pre-installed in the 1dx2 
Dextrose 2 International XO-1 image, these were activities with po 
translations that were missing a locale directory:

  Abacus-17
  Calculate-33
  Implode-9

Regard,
--Gary

 Regards,
   Simon
 
 [1] 
 http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.84/src/sugar/activity/bundlebuilder.py#line283

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Re: [SoaS] Missing gettext dependency needed for localised activities

2010-09-27 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke,

On 27 Sep 2010, at 15:06, Luke Faraone wrote:

 On 09/27/2010 08:29 AM, Gary Martin wrote:
 Thinking about it some more, whatever the case, without gettext I guess this 
 still make Soas and Dextrose distributions broken for anyone hoping to do a 
 little activity development/tinkering.
 
 Why can't they install the developer tools via yum?

They could, but they may have a very poor internet connection and even a 
trivial first yum takes a while even with a reasonable broadband connection as 
it checks multiple servers and pulls 5-15Mb of content/index files before even 
getting to gettext downloads, and that is assuming they know gettext is what 
they need to yum install when ./setup.py build gives them a nasty traceback 
with no obvious pointers (I didn't know and I poke about with this stuff fairly 
frequently). Also they may have no internet connection at all, having installed 
Sugar from some fixed media via sneaker net.

Regards,
--Gary

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Re: [SoaS] Missing gettext dependency needed for localised activities

2010-09-27 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter,

On 27 Sep 2010, at 13:37, Walter Bender wrote:

 On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com 
 wrote:
 
 FWIW, I've just gone through the 42 activities pre-installed in the 1dx2 
 Dextrose 2 International XO-1 image, these were activities with po 
 translations that were missing a locale directory:
 
  Abacus-17
 
 In the case of Abacus, as far as I know, there are no po files, hence
 no locale directory. (There is a .pot file, but there have never been
 any translations committed.)

Thanks, apologies for the red-herring, I was just looking through activities 
for po directories where no locale directory was present.

--Gary 

 -walter
 
  Calculate-33
  Implode-9
 
 Regard,
 --Gary
 
 Regards,
   Simon
 
 [1] 
 http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.84/src/sugar/activity/bundlebuilder.py#line283
 
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Re: [SoaS] Help testing new sugar packages in F14

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Martin
On 18 Aug 2010, at 16:55, Simon Schampijer wrote:

 On 08/18/2010 11:52 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
 Hi,
 
 to get the new Sugar release 0.90 [1] into shape and make it a stable
 release we want people to test the nightly Soas snapshots [2]. In order
 to get the new packaged tarballs into those builds they have to meet
 certain criteria first [3], hence we need people testing them.
 
 You can simply do this by getting the rpms from koji and install them
 into your latest soas snapshot and restart Sugar. What I do in short is:
 
 - open the Browse activity and go to http://koji.fedoraproject.org
 - search for the package (sugar, sugar-toolkit...)
 - click on the latest F14 version and then right-click on the download
 option of the 'noarch' rpm and choose 'copy link' from the palette (if
 you download directly it is stored in the Journal)
 - then open the terminal activity log in as root and you can copy in the
 address here using ctrl+shift+v or the edit tab in the toolbar
 - the command for updating the rpm is: 'rpm -U [name of rpm]'
 
 Once you tested the package you can comment on bodhi [4] about your
 findings and give karma points. If you have not done so yet, you should
 create a Fedora account [5], so your comments have a higher value.
 
 Why not start today? Here are some packages that would need your testing
 [6] [7]. Btw, there will be a Fedora testing day [8] this Thursday and
 we want to give a go on Sugar, too. More info to come.
 
 If you have questions please feel free to ask. I am as well on irc
 #sugar most of the day.
 
 Regards,
 Simon
 
 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap#Schedule
 [2] http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/
 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria
 [4] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
 [5]
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808
 [6]
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-artwork-0.89.3-1.fc14,sugar-toolkit-0.89.3-1.fc14?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808
 [7]
 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-toolkit-0.89.2-1.fc14,sugar-presence-service-0.90.0-1.fc14,sugar-0.89.3-1.fc14,sugar-base-0.90.0-1.fc14?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808
 [8] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/108
 
 Actually, you can use as well the updates testing repository to test new 
 rpms. Completely forgot about that.
 
 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sugar sugar-toolkit...
 
 And Bernie pointed out that fedora-easy-karma [1] can be used for people 
 who do not like to use web interfaces.
 
 Gary pointed out that he has issues running the latest snapshot under 
 virtualization (Virtual Box) does not work for him (black screen). If 
 anybody has an idea...

Just to confirm, I just tested again with the latest 
soas-x86_64-20100817.16.iso image and it is still showing a black screen at the 
point it should be showing X. It's not a lockup or a failed boot process, looks 
just to be that something display related in F14 and VirtualBox are not happy 
with each other yet (been happily using F13 VB VMs for some time). You can send 
the F14 VM the shutdown signal and it will gracefully shut its self down again. 
I also tested with various vga boot parameters incase it was resolution 
related, but all end up at black (800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200).

Regards,
--Gary

 Regards,
Simon
 
 [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma
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Re: [SoaS] Physics-5.tar.bz2 now on sunjammer

2010-07-24 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke,

On 24 Jul 2010, at 22:07, Luke Faraone wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 On 07/24/2010 03:46 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
 Just a quick ping on some .tar.bz2 uploads for those interested (Bernie 
 kindly reactivated my sunjammer shell account, will upload .bz2's here until 
 we have a more sane solution):
 
  http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Physics/Physics-5.tar.bz2
  http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Moon/Moon-11.tar.bz2
 
 Gary,
 
 Thank you for providing tarballs for Physics. I looked at the tarballs,
 and although it contains mostly Python source for Physics, it contains
 several binary blobs in lib/, namely eggs for Elements and Box2D.
 While this can be useful for .XO releases, when you're producing
 binaries for specific platforms, it's a complication for packagers, who
 (at least in Debian) have to repack the tarball to exclude such files.
 
 In future releases, could you provide a source-only tarball, rather than
 one with bundled eggs?

Sorry, that is currently well beyond my ability. Physics is something I picked 
up maintainer ship of, though I do understand there is a Box 2D binary blob in 
there (source code available else where, in a svn rep I think last time I 
looked), Elements is all python source I believe. The whole packaging game at 
the system level is a pretty alien concept to me. FWIW I'm a developer on the 
Mac platform, bundles there are all self contained built against the last few 
OS X releases (good for 5-10 year support), kind'a why the .xo makes such sense 
to me.

Regards,
--Gary
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Re: [SoaS] [realness] Sugar On A Stick for Macintosh

2010-07-24 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl,

On 25 Jul 2010, at 05:37, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:

 In the past, I have had success also running it in Virtual Box.  Again, no 
 storage.

I'd be happy to talk you through a Virtual Box Sugar image install using irc 
(we could meet on #sugar). I do much of my dev/testing in Mac Sugar virtual 
machines. Perhaps you could document the step you've been missing so far, so 
others have a smoother path to follow? 

Very roughly, you start by downloading one of the .iso images,  then pretend it 
is a CD and get Virtual Box to boot from it. Then use Terminal activity in this 
read only Sugar to install the images onto a the VMs virtual disk. The vm can 
then be rebooted into a fully working Sugar, and the .iso is no longer needed. 

Regards,
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Re: [SoaS] Activity inclusion for SoaS-4

2010-07-12 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter,

On 12 Jul 2010, at 22:16, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi SoaS people,
 
 So the current Sugar Activity list for SoaS-4 stands as follows with
 the justifications as to why they're included.
 
 The basic idea is to include the core Sucrose/Fructose Activity list
 (as long as they are actively maintained and work) and then a small
 selection of Activities that are well supported and demonstrate the
 features of the Sugar Learning platform such as the collaboration side
 of it to contribute towards the K-6 side of SoaS's targets.
 
 So the core sugar Fructose activities [1] list is:
 Browse
 Chat
 EToys
 Log
 Pippy
 Read
 Terminal
 TurtleArt
 Write
 
 These ones are also on the Fructose list but I'm not sure of their
 status so we need to be convinced of their status:
 Calculate

FWIW Calculate is now next on my it list, the version in git is as yet 
unreleased, it was updated with new toolbar support for 0.86 and a bunch of 
fixes but the release was overlooked. Want to give it another testing pass 
here, and will see if there are some low hanging bug fixes I could make from 
trac.

 Image/ImageViewer
 Jukebox
 
 To the Fructose list we're adding:
 Physics - Because this is a great demo example (quick demo).
 Record - Because its useful and kids tend to like recording/photoing stuff.
 xoirc - Because this helps us help them.

Just called IRC these days.

 paint - K-6 and enjoyed by kids
 memorize - K-6 and enjoyed by kids
 speak - Good for voice demos
 
 So the current planned inclusion list is as follows:
 Browse
 Chat
 EToys
 Log
 Pippy
 Read
 Terminal
 TurtleArt
 Write
 Physics
 Record
 xoirc
 paint
 memorize
 speak
 
 That currently gives us a list of 15 Activities. Its obviously not the
 final list and I look forward to suggestions. Its not guaranteed the
 above list remain the same. For example Read still does not work. And
 we're not aiming to get to the same level of previous releases, its
 currently not maintainable with the current SoaS resources.
 
 Things to note are that the Activities need to be working, well
 maintained, packaged in Fedora to be considered. To be in Fedora they
 can't contain any binary blobs (if they have code that needs to be
 compiled, that's fine but it must be done as per Fedora packaging
 guidelines).

Hmm, Physics has always had a binary blob in it (_Box2D.so in a Python .egg), 
the packaging dance is an alien to me so perhaps Sebastian did some magic there 
(FWIW Physics is up to version 5 with new toolbar support, grab tool works 
while simulation is paused, code clean-up, and latest translations).

I can email someone the Physics-5.tar.bz2 if needed? Folks don't seem to want 
these files on the wiki, and individual shell accounts for access is a real 
pain, if that's the only thing you ever use the account for – I gave up 
uploading last year, and I'm sure Bernie has better things to spend his time on 
:)

Regards,
--Gary

 Regards.
 Peter
 
 Note, please forward this if you think its important to other lists
 but the discussion will happen on the SoaS list.
 
 [1] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/
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Re: [SoaS] Summary of eBooks lists... Thanks to all who contributed.

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl,

This is the page we were building up in the last Blueberry SoaS release, 
unfortunately the recent Mirabelle SoaS release included a new version of 
evence that badly broke Sugar's PDF support (Read). About the most 
basic/critical feature for an educational platform was lost... :(

 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/E-Books

Regards,
--Gary

On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:17, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 
 
 A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks.  
 Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them 
 all in one place and share them with you all.  (I'm sorry the formatting of 
 this page seems to have a mind of its own!)
 
 
 
 
 
 From Tabitha Roder (tabi...@tabitha.net.nz)International Childrens Digital 
 Library (some other languages also available)
 
 http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
 
 
 
 From Avash Mulmi (avash.mu...@olenepal.org) in Nepal, but will lots of 
 children's books in English as well. Put English in the search box and you 
 will get some in English.
 
 http://www.pustakalaya.org
 
 
 
 From Abhishek Indoria (indoria_abhis...@hotmail.com)
 
 You need to register first (free) for this one. And, you must have a gmail 
 account to use this site. Then, you can login. Please choose gigapedia from 
 the search menu at the upper right corner of the site after you log in, and 
 search for any book you like.  Also, please visit the site's categories page 
 to sort through them. It has more than 3 million books!
 
 http://gigapedia.com . 
 
 
 
 And, here are 3 more sent without comments:
 
 
 
 From Edward Cherlin (echer...@gmail.com)
 
 http://www.librarianchick.com/
 
 
 
 From (fors...@ozonline.com.au)
 
 http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227
 
 
 
 From Nicholas Doiron (ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu) Audio versions of free ebooks.
 
 http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
 
 
 
 I'll add a link from the California digital textbook project. So far the 
 books are only for high school math and science, but the quality is excellent:
 
 http://about.ck12.org/
 
 
 
 Kevin Mark (kevin.m...@verizon.net) suggested that there needs to be a site 
 where there is a list of books available with evaluations. Sounds like a 
 great idea for some one to pick up on.
 
 
 
 
 
 Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like.
 
 
 
 Cheers!
 
 Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer.
 
 
 
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Re: [SoaS] [soas] modified browse index.html works in a live soas USB as start new screen on sugar-browse

2010-06-14 Thread Gary Martin
On 14 Jun 2010, at 09:01, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Thomas,
 
 The modified browse index.html now works.
 I can install modified-index.html in a live USB.:
 Look at:
 
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html#Change-Browse.activity_index.html-to-use-Modified-Browse-html_in_a_live_USB
 
 I request that this be considered for a feature for Soas and the fedora
 spin of it.
 
 The Browse index-html file needs to be detailed (polished-up) for the
 spin and put in the build of V4, and pointed to a modified soas firefox
 default start screen location, so that it can be updated and installed
 from the repositories.
 
 Looking good! We'll need to have this packaged up in a sugar-bookmarks
 rpm file. Let me know if you'd like some help getting this packaged up
 so we can get it in upstream Fedora.

Hmmm. Rather worried we've lost all the work and community discussion that went 
into carefully creating the default Browse page for Sugar before, seem to have 
thrown everything out for an overwhelming text only list of URLs.

Perhaps the wiki is just showing a non final version?

Regards,
--Gary

 
 Cheers,
 Peter
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