Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.86 plans
And we are relying on jhconvert for openSUSE rpms too. Outside that we maintain more than 50 honey activities via oBS. kind regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:06:56AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I am planning to blog about the plans for 0.86 in the various distros. In order to ensure I get my facts straight, I am asking that those of you involved in packaging please send me a sentence or two describing your targets. Among jhconvert's official repos, Mandriva: 0.86 was packaged to development repository and will be in the next 2010.0 release(2009-11-03) -- Aleksey ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Samuel Goldwynhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html - I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: I seem to recall several Python apps moving from numpy to numarray in the past, so it should be doable. I strongly suspect you are backwards. Numarray is the deprecated predecessor to numpy. I was indeed. I was thinking of Numeric being replaced by Numarray, before Numpy then came along. Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Adventures with GPA Macbooks
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Thanks Martin, Does that give us any hint about whats happening? How is that PRAM/PROM normally set? Maybe we need to go change the default somewhere? Well, I don't know what procedure you are following. The standard practice on a Mac is to press a key early in the boot to get a boot menu that lets you choose the device. IIRC the key is 'O' (for Option?). The PRAM remembers that option, so next time it boots it tries the same disk. If you remove the disk (CDROM, external HD) it might get confused. So after booting from a CD-ROM, you want to either boot again with the O pressed and choose the internal disk for booting, or reset the PRAM. cheers, n -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] cvs branched for Fedora 12
Hi All, Just a reminder to those people that maintain packages in upstream Fedora that as of now the packages have been branched for F-12. That means if you need to build a package for Fedora-12 it will need to be built in the F-12 branch. If you do this also please ensure you commit the build to the devel (the one that will become F-13) as well to ensure that both places have the latest build. Also as of today we are in Freeze in preparation for the Fedora 12 Beta and in preparation for final. As a result any bug fix packages built for F-12 will need a rel-eng ticket so they can be tagged into the release. If you need any assistance or have any queries about any of the above by all means poke me on or off list and I'll be glad to help out. Cheers, Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Adventures with GPA Macbooks
handy links for OSX boot key combinations: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310 mentioned here: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-May/005785.html and here, I fleshed out most of a small script which could be run (icon-click) from an inserted Sugar on a Stick to reboot from only the next boot (bless command, -nextonly option): http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-May/005882.html I did not manage to get Fedora to boot, possibly because syntax for mounting filesystem was incorrect, possibly because of Fedora bug. Sean On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Thanks Martin, Does that give us any hint about whats happening? How is that PRAM/PROM normally set? Maybe we need to go change the default somewhere? Well, I don't know what procedure you are following. The standard practice on a Mac is to press a key early in the boot to get a boot menu that lets you choose the device. IIRC the key is 'O' (for Option?). The PRAM remembers that option, so next time it boots it tries the same disk. If you remove the disk (CDROM, external HD) it might get confused. So after booting from a CD-ROM, you want to either boot again with the O pressed and choose the internal disk for booting, or reset the PRAM. cheers, n -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-09-30
=== Sugar Digest === 1. While the decision panel debates [See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-September/008746.html] whether or not Sugar Labs should be a GNU/Linux distributor, I thought it would be worthwhile surveying the GNU/Linux distribution's plans regarding Sugar Release 0.84. * Alexsey Lim has been using jhconvert to maintain official repositories for a number of distributions, e.g., 0.86 was packaged for Mandriva's development repository and will be in the next release, 2010.0, scheduled for 2009-11-03. Alexsey has compiled a table of the various packaging efforts [[Development_Team/Packaging]]. * David Van Assche has been relying on jhconvert for openSUSE rpms as well. * Peter Robinson reports that 0.86 is already in rawhide and hence will be in the soon to be released Fedora 12 beta. * Jonas Smedegaard reports that the plan for Debian is to maintain: (a) the newest upstream branch (currently 0.86); (b) newest stable branch (currently 0.84; soon to be 0.86); and possibly (c) additional older stable releases. In other words, the plan is to track at least head of development and head of stable. And to leave a trail behind of all stable releases for others to spawn off from if they so choose. * Rubén Rodríguez Pérez has 0.86 running on Trisquel (See [http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar]). All of these distributions come with the core (Fructose) activities; some, such as openSUSE, come with many additional (Honey) activities pre-packaged. Activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO) can be used by all distributions to add 100s of addition activities. The updater in the Sugar Control Panel will automatically update the activities installed on your distribution to the latest versions. 2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language version. She has kindly made it available for download (See [http://www.scribd.com/doc/20189623/The-XO-Laptop-in-the-Classroom]). 3. Kludge of the week: I was recently asked for a copy of one of my talks. I give all of my talks using the presentation features of Turtle Art and I still haven't gotten around to writing the export function from Turtle Art to .odp (Open Office presentation). For this particular request, I didn't think that the HTML exported from Turtle Art was adequate. So I wrote a one-line Python call to save screen shots into the Journal, loaded it into the Turtle Art programmable brick, and then added that brick to the next slide trigger. The result: a copy of each slide of my talk automatically saved to the Journal. You can see the results ([[File:Desktop-Summit.pdf]]) in the wiki. === In the Community === 4. There is a nice write up of the recent Sugar Day in Argentina (See [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReunionSeptiembre2009]). ===Sugar Labs=== 5. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:File:2009-September-19-25-som.jpg|SOM]]). -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Measure-28
Benzea provided patches to Measure to clean up some problematic code and greatly speed up both computation and display. The new version (v28) is available on ASLO: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/versions/add/4197 The source tarball is available at: http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Measure/Measure-28.tar.bz2 regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Measure-28
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4197 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29263 Release notes: * clean up and speed up of code by benzea Reviewer comments: This request has been approved. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Namespace for 0.84 updates to Browse and Chat?
Hi, sorry for the late reply, this is a very good question. I think we should move to dotted version numbers for activities in 0.88, maybe interpreting a version number without a dot as 0.xx. For now and for your specific use case, what about preppending 0.84/0.86 to the activity version number? Regards, Tomeu On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:10, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Hi, As I understand it, Sugarlabs wants to keep things simple for users by only using the equivalent of major numbers when versioning Activities. I am wondering, however, what version numbers can be expected for potential future bugfix releases of Browse and Chat targeted 0.84, as it seems to me that there have been left no natural numbers between latest 0.84-compatible releases and first 0.85-requiring releases. I ask because I would prefer to setup package tracking in Debian, and these two packages seems impossible to have a newer release by your chosen numbering scheme. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJKuJSXAAoJECx8MUbBoAEhVWsP/RMpzkitqQMg2um/L2AUdAS8 SiD1QMgMPoO9p43RsjRcgDMPVWN/P6zw2nJYFa9/GoD3thfR8frbad+ZRNiKllyi KgVV/MstsmOF9zR2drVRlwQXk0RDb/Uo1/Tug11cuLQCl5csvBQT2so9YZQ4zula 4Pbk4X6Oi8zNOVzdHZXzhcr2ilfEaFhsGL18ILBN732DVo43ZkCExFZFRy6dwprD q/o3iphNpBk5cnpxAJe6eaph7lY41sXLK12PCgMs1xjXHR+7n/3DfmLWsVT1vjIv 6PA+dU2V1LWMwYYgMo+/rpC89x1I306nV5lk2s1IdbaTPHgfVm+CREEWFBdWgM9H 0zXIuE0fngW6qBXoNzTegbwAQYtECqSSY66GdWxgZ/pJ+HIpPU+irreA1CmB6Ypz nBmc1Ed1L2sHZrXOwUEZQFOCp0TUezNMOprDww1dUTxj1cQUPCqY8/E08/t29w85 KZeAPMrjvSkkeAUZ46xsJbjy2P+jenVaf0TjSDbZQtLJEvq4vLQ7YHUbkoHv/fnI HdkJotErMVt+Nv1Pc/kIWFZjZm9GFUqYKhfiyKQsc0cyDFLYTXSxltZDCoyX+gu4 S8+sLTSstMqz3rS/6YWb3Wa3Xmk9AFAmoKV9oDY5U3yoQY98wXPmtKn7CCceIksw k5wKwL326UKA+GKEi+IV =AQmA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Datastore shared between 0.84 and 0.86 systems
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 17:57, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Hi, I guess that if a user creates a sugar environment (i.e. ~/.sugar) using 0.84 or older and then switches to 0.86 then the datastore is updated. But what happens the other way around? Is the data usable, or does it get corrupted, or does it maybe get moved off so is experienced as lost by the user? I ask because I consider shipping next stable Debian release with *both* 0.84 and 0.86 (and possibly also 0.87 or 0.88). Only a single Sucrose branch can be installed at once, but an admin can relatively easy swith from one to another, and then back again - wreaking havoc for users if the system does not sanely handle it. Also imagine the case of diskless clients offered the choice of multiple appliation servers running different versions of Sucrose, all using same /home NFS storage. In the document world, it is often used to add a version hint. I know that the DtP application Scribus handles not only upgrades from 1.3.1- and 1.3.2-produced documents to the newer 1.3.3 (which used a slightly different file format), but also the older versions properly identifies too *new* documents and refuses to open them, instead informing about the version mismatch. Even if current 0.84 (and 0.82!) does not currently implement version checking, I would very much appreciate if such functionality was added now as a bugfix release. Hope you see the point of this, and that it is easy to implement - most easy being just replying we thought of that ages ago and it already works sanely! :-) Sure I see the point. I *think* that there are good chances that the 0.84 DS will be able to read a dir converted to the 0.86 format, because the only changes were in the index and in a backwards compatible way, AFAICS. Could someone give this a try and report the results? The format version number of the dir is in ~/.sugar/default/datastore/version Thanks, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing] Test summary - 26 September 2009 Auckland
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:06, Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com wrote: Who: chris and family, nat torkington and family, mark osborne, jacko, vik and tamara, john and slavica, fabiana, tab, tom, charlotte, robbie Tested browse found when went to http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ that the download button displays in green and black stripes on XOs but displays green when running SoaS on eee PC and displays green in firefox on mac. This looks like a bug in the X geode driver, I have read several similar reports in dev.laptop.org. tested soas on eee pc found the scroll on trackpad does not automatically work Yes, in Fedora this is disabled by default, I think we should enable it but am not sure we should put knobs for these settings in the control panel. Maybe report it in https://launchpad.net/soas if it's still not there? found no scroll bar on the my settings, network menu so could not change the mesh address This will be addressed in 0.86.1 (next friday). cannot download activities using safari have to use firefox, dont know if this is know or not but useful to know if you are new tester and use mac os x. Anybody can give more details about the trouble with Safari? got a few sugar on a stick working, had some issues with getting USB keys to show on XOs to add activities Will be great to have some more details about this as well, specially the shell debug logs http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/Get_Logs. Thanks, Tomeu thanks for coming Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning Consultant HRDNZ (Moodle Partner) tabi...@hrdnz.com www.hrdnz.com Cell +64 21 482229 ___ Testing mailing list test...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release
Dear Sugar Community, this is the Final Release in our Sucrose 0.86 development cycle (http://sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap#Schedule)! Sucrose 0.86 is the latest version of the Sugar learning platform, consisting of Glucose, the base system environment; and Fructose, a set of demonstration activities. Sucrose is released every six months. Each new release contains new features, improvements, bug fixes, and translations. Sucrose 0.86 continues this tradition and is our third well-planned release to date. Full release notes with all the links and pictures can be found at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible. Thanks everyone for your great contributions! In behalf of the sugar community, Your Release Team == What is new for users == === Activity Toolbar redesign === The toolbar used in the Activities has been redesigned. The previous design using small text tabs to group toolbar options together caused a number of usability difficulties. Many of these issues have been addressed in the redesign. For example, the redesign provides a solution for the how do I stop an activity issue (the older toolbar design did not provide an always visible Stop button, causing confusion for our young learners). Among the Activities, Browse, Write, Calculate, Terminal, Read, ImageViewer, and Turtle Art have already been ported to use the new Toolbar design, while work on many others is under way. === Switch to Metacity window manager === Sugar has switched from Matchbox to a new window manager, Metacity. Matchbox was designed for small devices; it forces ''all'' applications to run maximized. Sugar can be run on devices with much larger screens, and while activities native to Sugar are designed to be run maximized (full screen), some applications not specifically designed for Sugar can behave in unexpected ways when run with Matchbox. The switch to Metacity means that many unsugarized applications will run better inside of Sugar (e.g. Inkscape, Gimp). We endeavor to ensure that traditional desktop applications run well in Sugar, without requiring programming or behavioral changes. === Flash Activities === Gnash has been added to the Sugar Platform, meaning that authors of education content can use Flash tools to create first class activities for Sugar. === Tabs in Browse === Some web pages contain links that are designed to be opened in a new window. The Browse Activity now opens these links in new tabs inside the main activity window, similar to the behavior of most common web browsers, thus providing a better browsing experience. Note that this feature does not yet allow the user to explicitly open any link in a new tab or explicitly create a new tab. === Ad hoc Networking === New ad-hoc networking facilities allows you to connect with other Sugar users over wireless in an ad-hoc manner without relying on any wireless networking infrastructure. This is the so called under-a-tree scenario, where children can work, play, and learn collaboratively in any place imaginable, without requiring any wireless access point, which for many children is unavailable or only available at school. (The One Laptop per Child XO-1 computer provides similar functionality with its firmware-based 802.11s (mesh) network.) Ad-hoc networking allows Sugar to use this feature with most of the wireless hardware commonly found on computers. Furthermore it allows one to share an Internet connection using the same mechanism. === Read === The Read Activity now has support for Epub files. Epub is a standard format for ebooks which is gaining fast acceptance in the (e)book publishing and distribution community. A number of websites such as feedbooks.com, epubbooks.com and Google Books provide high-quality, Epub books for download at no charge. In addition to Epub support, this release of the Read Activity also lets one associate (add and edit) notes with bookmarks, and it has a more useful full-screen view that roughly indicates battery life without requiring the invocation of the Sugar Frame. === Software Update === The software-update control panel is now included in standard Sugar. It uses the Sugar Activity Library at http://activities.sugarlabs.org to check for and install the latest Activity updates available. This makes it easier for users to update to the latest version of a given Activity, and makes smoother for developers to publish and distribute newer version of Activities. === Improved Accessibility === Some parts of Sugar (Journal and Home list view) have been modified to use Gtk+ widgets, instead of HippoCanvas, which had no accessibility support. This is a part of an
[Sugar-devel] Where should we put our mixture of bugs, feature requests and misunderstandings as we develop curriculum
As I work with educators to create and write up curriculum we will discover problems. They will be a mixture of Sugar, Activities, SoaS and confusion. There are a bunch of ways we could deal with it. 1. Everything goes into Launchpad soas answers and we sort it out from there. 2. Everything is first posted to IAEP, discussed and sorted out and then put into Dev, Launchpad soas or into a wiki page somewhere or just lost in the mailing list archives 3. Everyone tells me everything and I try to decide where to put it which has obvious problems 4. Everything is put into Trac For example todays issues - Record is not recording audio - probably hardware SoaS issue. - Colors journal entries are not showing up as an image so I can't import it into another program like Cartoon Builder. - Cartoon builder is cool, I want to make my own characters but it seems really hard in Sugar to draw a bit, save, draw a bit more, save under a new name, how can I do that more easily. - I'd like to save a figure out of FlipSticks and put him into cartoon builder. Is there a way to save a flipstick image? How do we capture and track the issues, especially since we know we don't have the resources to solve them all immediately. Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Where should we put our mixture of bugs, feature requests and misunderstandings as we develop curriculum
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:27:46PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: As I work with educators to create and write up curriculum we will discover problems. They will be a mixture of Sugar, Activities, SoaS and confusion. There are a bunch of ways we could deal with it. [...] 2. Everything is first posted to IAEP Please please don't do this - IAEP gets enough SoaS/distro noise as is. 3. Everyone tells me everything and I try to decide where to put it which has obvious problems This is it. If you imagine you're the deployment, you have to communicate upstream. I don't think, realistically, it's scalable for every deployment to do anything else. 4. Everything is put into Trac No, then trac (Sugar) becomes a dumping ground that includes a lot of downstream (SoaS, etc.) issues. Triage suggestions (but I'm not the expert): For example todays issues - Record is not recording audio - probably hardware SoaS issue. SoaS bug tracker. - Colors journal entries are not showing up as an image so I can't import it into another program like Cartoon Builder. Activity author / mailing list. - Cartoon builder is cool, I want to make my own characters but it seems really hard in Sugar to draw a bit, save, draw a bit more, save under a new name, how can I do that more easily. Activity author / mailing list. - I'd like to save a figure out of FlipSticks and put him into cartoon builder. Is there a way to save a flipstick image? Activity author / mailing list. Thanks, Caroline Martin pgpijE34Z0TFl.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Where should we put our mixture of bugs, feature requests and misunderstandings as we develop curriculum
Hi Caroline, Apologies for not introducing myself to the lists before my first post, but workflow of issues is something that sparked a neuron or two! 2009/10/1 Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com As I work with educators to create and write up curriculum we will discover problems. They will be a mixture of Sugar, Activities, SoaS and confusion. There are a bunch of ways we could deal with it. 1. Everything goes into Launchpad soas answers and we sort it out from there. 2. Everything is first posted to IAEP, discussed and sorted out and then put into Dev, Launchpad soas or into a wiki page somewhere or just lost in the mailing list archives 3. Everyone tells me everything and I try to decide where to put it which has obvious problems 4. Everything is put into Trac Here's a suggested workflow: Issue identified with SoaS Add Q https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/ Immediate Q answered Decisions to make Answerer(s) - If substantive, invite query to be discussed on list - If Sugar bug, then port to http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ - If repeated/general Q, then click Add to FAQ Rationale: Launchpad Answers is friendlier to newbies than Trac. Answers allows the user to own the question = they get to decide if their Q was answered sufficently to close the ticket. It's very easy to create a FAQ in Launchpad Answers. Trac is powerful for software development, but is only adequate for user support. Some things (like curriculum changes or substantive issues) deserve to be forwarded to mailing list. Cheers all, Tim http://timmcnamara.co.nz http://twitter.com/timClicks ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] High School Programmer Volunteer?
I have a volunteer high school student who needs to do community service for school. He's done a bit of python and would like to help us with a remote programming type task. Does anyone want to mentor? This might be a nice thing for a slightly more experienced person also new to the project or an activity maintainer who is feeling short on time but might have time to guide and check someone's work? I don't know the students' skill level, perhaps if there is a mentor we could set up a trial period so if he is not up to the right level there is a way out of the relationship. Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Karma] State of Chakra and knavbar
Pavel, KCD (Christoph), Felipe, sorry i haven't been very active this week. Pls blame it on Nepal's festival season and the fact that I was sick earlier this week. I will take a look at the code today. KCD, did you ever convert knavbar to E4X? Pavel, I have put my comments in line w/ yours On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 22:33 +0100, Pavel Mocan wrote: * Om has promised some new icons for stage 3 (months and weeks) which should help in making that stage look nicer * we need to find a way to make the subject curriculum link blend in a nicer way i will think of a way to incorporate this better in the page. That would be awesome. If you have particular ideas for the icons, u can communicate them to Om as he is the master artist. * making the background of the selected months / weeks white gets the job done but is anything other than pretty one way we could solve this issue would be to change the opacity to 0.5 or 0.6 to all the rest of the elements except the selected one; OR add a small icon (arrow pointing down) on top of the selected item. I like the idea of changing the opacity * the odd alignment issues I mentioned yesterday (with sometimes the layout being oddly messed up after page-loads and then working again fine on reload) # this can happen sometimes because of the browser loadings. it happends to large websites sometimes as well ... We should be able to fix this by monkeying around w/ the js, i think * html/css might not be as nice as it should be after my latest workings ## i will take a look at the html and css and try to 'organise' it :) knavbar: I feel knvarbar is in a half-decent state where it's beginning to be useable. Some of the things that are still missing are: * a nicer looking welcome page, I feel the current one still leaves quite a bit to be desired ## i would also suggest changing the icon that links to the home page (the round thingy ...); maybe one that looks clearer will do fine. the round 'thingy' is literally a chakra, meaning wheel in Nepali. It needs to stand out more and look like a button. right now it looks like part of the background so it isn't intuitive to click on it. * the lesson title area still isn't very nice * we haven't really decided what the functionality of the help button will be ## we can have a 'pop up' window that blurs the background. the window should be displayed in the central section of the page and have a scroll bar if the information is too much. I think the pop-up is the way to go. But more like an overlay like growl is in Mac OS X, but bigger. * the html/css might also still need some attention after my latest changes Cheers and talk to you all when I'm back in Austria, Christoph I will take a look at it later today and much of tomorrow. mpavel will u be online this evening? we could chat then. hopefully I will have had a chance to look at the code. -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ecomundo-2
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4213 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29265 Release notes: Reviewer comments: Este requerimiento ha sido aprobado. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
