empty po files

2008-02-06 Thread Jani Monoses
Hello, building the calculate activity for Ubuntu I noticed it failed because the th.po file is empty. Reported here http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6357 Is there something in the software that does the automated imports of translations, that can prevent this from happening in general? thanks

Re: Observing games

2008-02-06 Thread Morgan Collett
On Feb 6, 2008 5:33 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I recall, the Connect activitiy was set up to let the first two players play and everyone else who joined observe. So if we have that code, it should be easy to

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:35 , Walter Bender wrote: For point of information, the GCompris front end to gnuchess has been ported to the laptop. Enjoy. -walter ... and a chess game is shipping in Etoys. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:57 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Looking into the tree for Etoys (http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/etoys;a=summary), etoys.xml which will be installed to /usr/share/mime/packages by Makefile(.in) and activity.info(.in) that lists the accepted types. This is only how the

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 11:21 -0600, James Simmons wrote: I am writing a Sugar activity in Python. This activity will enable the user to navigate through a list of image files stored in a Zip file by using the arrow keys, and might support a slideshow feature too. There might be a hundred

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 04.02.2008 18:21, James Simmons wrote: To accomplish this I have created my Zip files with the extension .slides and I'd like to be able to use the MIME type application/slides for such files. I'm also interested in creating a reader program for Gutenberg etexts. I'd like these files

Re: suspend/resume support?

2008-02-06 Thread Jake B
It looks like ticket 3355 (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3355) has been fixed. Could anyone let me know if the fix was ever included in a build? Please let me know. Thanks. Jake On 12/26/07, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jake, thanks for the comments. * Closing the lid

Re: empty po files

2008-02-06 Thread Erik Blankinship
On 2/6/08, Jani Monoses [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, building the calculate activity for Ubuntu I noticed it failed because the th.po file is empty. Reported here http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6357 Is there something in the software that does the automated imports of translations, that

python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, as we all know, activities that use the python API (most of them) start up very slow in the XO, a trivial one launching in 7 seconds. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5228 I don't know yet if performance work will land in update.2 or in update.3, but now may be a good moment to summarize what

Re: empty po files

2008-02-06 Thread Jani Monoses
Erik Blankinship wrote: On 2/6/08, *Jani Monoses* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, building the calculate activity for Ubuntu I noticed it failed because the th.po file is empty. Reported here http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6357 Is there

Joyride and Update.2

2008-02-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, is joyride open for Update.2 development? If not when do we plan to reopen it? Thanks, Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: By the data in #5228, looks like more than 50% of time is spent importing modules. dbus, telepathy and pygtk make for more than 30% of _total_ startup time. There has been much talk about fork()ing the python interpreter for

Re: Joyride and Update.2

2008-02-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Feb 6, 2008, at 15:13 , Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Hello, is joyride open for Update.2 development? If not when do we plan to reopen it? How about having three builds - like stable, testing, and unstable? Currently, joyride is swinging back and force between testing and unstable

Re: empty po files

2008-02-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Ahh yes - I have not been able to track down the issue completely, but I think those 0 byte files are generated during merging of PO files with newer POT files. I'm trying to come up with a system which conducts tests on the PO files for correctness - but unfortunately it's still not fully

Re: [sugar] python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:20 +0100, Ryan Pavlik wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, as we all know, activities that use the python API (most of them) start up very slow in the XO, a trivial one launching in 7 seconds. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5228 I don't know yet if performance

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 09:31 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: By the data in #5228, looks like more than 50% of time is spent importing modules. dbus, telepathy and pygtk make for more than 30% of _total_ startup time.

Re: [OLPC library] [Re] 'OLPC-Health' takes off !!

2008-02-06 Thread drew einhorn
On Feb 6, 2008 1:24 AM, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Seth Woodworth wrote: Software: *We're researching what would be the best medical records software for the XO. OpenMRS, OpenEHR, or VistA I never made it to dive more deeply into the former two. I spend

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, The problem is that my application does not create the Zip files filled with images, it only reads them. I had noticed that when I put a flash drive containing hundreds of images into my XO that it thrashed for quite a bit and wouldn't let me open any apps until it was done. I would

Update.1 690 very slow on B2-7 XO

2008-02-06 Thread Stephen Bannasch
We'ved ordered 2 of the G1G1 XOs for development at Concord Consortium but since they haven't arrived yet I installed Update.1 690 on one of our B2-7 XOs. The install completed and the system works but it is extremely slow -- many minutes to start applications or switch contexts (presumably

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread James Simmons
Carl, I agree I have no business inventing my own MIME type. What I really want is a file suffix association like I can do with Windows or Midnight Commander on Linux. The MIME type of application/zip works, but Etoys is using that one too. I need a way for Zip files using the .slides

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 09:39 -0600, James Simmons wrote: Tomeu, The problem is that my application does not create the Zip files filled with images, it only reads them. Oh, now I see. I had noticed that when I put a flash drive containing hundreds of images into my XO that it thrashed for

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Klaus Weidner
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:31:02AM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: By the data in #5228, looks like more than 50% of time is spent importing modules. dbus, telepathy and pygtk make for more than 30% of _total_ startup time. There has been much talk about fork()ing

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi James, On 06.02.2008 16:46, James Simmons wrote: I agree I have no business inventing my own MIME type. What I really want is a file suffix association like I can do with Windows or Midnight Commander on Linux. The MIME type of application/zip works, but Etoys is using that one too. I

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, I had created a mimetypes.xml file that looks like this: ?xml version=1.0? mime-info xmlns=http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info; mime-type type=application/slides commentView Slides Archive/comment glob pattern=*.slides/ /mime-type

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread James Simmons
Carl, If I can get this working I'll definitely use a MIME type like activity/x-slide-activity. I want to distribute this activity when its finished. Thanks, James Simmons Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi James, On 06.02.2008 16:46, James Simmons wrote: I agree I have no business

Re: Observing games

2008-02-06 Thread Gerard J. Cerchio
I previously asked for volunteers to work on Connect. Despite some interest, it hasn't progressed further, so I'll reiterate: Patches welcome! Regards Morgan Once I have more time, in say a month or two, I'll continue development on PlayGo again which is a direct descendant of

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 at 10:13:23 -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote: Would it be feasible/helpful to use the uncore approach used by Emacs? [...] Of course, any initialization done initially must not depend on external state, so for example any connections

Re: Observing games

2008-02-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 6, 2008 8:46 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I previously asked for volunteers to work on Connect. Despite some interest, it hasn't progressed further, so I'll reiterate: Patches welcome! Regards Morgan Once I have more time, in say a month or two, I'll

Re: Update.1 690 very slow on B2-7 XO

2008-02-06 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Stephen, Your B2 will not run recent builds properly. It is suggested that you use the image bellow: http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/build406.16/http://dev.laptop.org/%7Equozl/build406.16/ -- Ricardo Carrano On Feb 6, 2008 1:42 PM, Stephen Bannasch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'ved ordered 2 of

Re: Observing games

2008-02-06 Thread Gerard J. Cerchio
Edward Cherlin wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 8:46 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I previously asked for volunteers to work on Connect. Despite some interest, it hasn't progressed further, so I'll reiterate: Patches welcome! Regards Morgan Once I have more time, in say

Re: Update.1 690 very slow on B2-7 XO

2008-02-06 Thread Stephen Bannasch
At 4:49 PM -0200 2/6/08, Ricardo Carrano wrote: Stephen, Your B2 will not run recent builds properly. It is suggested that you use the image bellow: http://dev.laptop.org/%7Equozl/build406.16/http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/build406.16/ -- Ricardo Carrano Thanks for the info Ricardo.

Re: Update.1 690 very slow on B2-7 XO

2008-02-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Stephen Bannasch wrote: With regard to build406.16. Can I just replace os656.crc and os656.img in the boot dir on my USB flash stick with os406.icrc and os406.img and startup with it? Will build406.16 work with q2d12? Q2D12 is compatible with all OS builds that have come out in recent

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 09:59 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: If I understand correctly how that fork() would work, what we would be saving in that case is the reading of modules, but the python code at the module scope

Re: empty po files

2008-02-06 Thread Jani Monoses
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Ahh yes - I have not been able to track down the issue completely, but I think those 0 byte files are generated during merging of PO files with newer POT files. I'm trying to come up with a system which conducts tests on the PO files for correctness - but

Re: Activity Hosting Application: Develop

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Paul Swartz wrote: 1. Project name : Develop Done, your tree is: git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/develop Instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Cheers, -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-06 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
This is a little off-topic, but just wondering... In my work on Develop, I am looking at a similar situation: application bundles. These are zip files with the extension .xo. My question is, why bother zipping them if the file system compresses anyway? Why not, you ask. I know that ziptools can

Activity Icons gone

2008-02-06 Thread Andres Cabrera
Hi all, I've suddenly lost all the icons for activities, after trying to update the Develop Activity. I deleted the entry for the older version from the journal, and then fired up the newer version. I did notice before firing up the new version that the icon for the develop activity was not there

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Stone
Tomeu, I have hacked the rainbow service in the following way: Please publish your code so that we can have a look at it. - rainbow preimports pygtk, telepathy, dbus and some slow sugar modules. - after cloning, reconnect to X. - instead of execvpe sugar-activity, directly execute the code.

Weekly Test Meeting - Testing UPDATE.1; FRIDAY 4:00 PM EST

2008-02-06 Thread Kim Quirk
Earlier this week I sent out a message for people who want to help in testing for THursday afternoons. I need to change that to Friday afternoons, 4pm EST Over the next few weeks we are looking at the release candidates for Update.1. A reminder of the agenda/wiki page:

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-06 Thread david
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: By the data in #5228, looks like more than 50% of time is spent importing modules. dbus, telepathy and pygtk make for more than 30% of _total_ startup time. There has been