Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem like read_file() is only triggered if you have previously saved an actual file to filesystem, if you just have metadata, no call is ever made to read_file() so it's a rather bad place to pick-up the

Localization of TurtleArt

2008-02-29 Thread Alexander Todorov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello everybody, I've spent some time thinking about this ticket: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3585 TurtleArt developer(s) have decided to use gif images that represent different shapes with text inside. What we need is a helper script that will

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: If you're not in a hurry, I'll try to do this after the FOSDEM. I also need this in order to upgrade to X 1.5 on the OLPC. Yesterday me and aleph completed the pciaccess rework for the amd_drv. But as we rebased on the latest xserver git head, we stumbled into the

Re: Localization of TurtleArt

2008-02-29 Thread Walter Bender
I'm a bit rusty, but you can use the Gimp to do this, using Scheme scripts. I did have a bit of trouble with positioning on some RTL scripts as the Gimp is using fairly antiquated text rendering internally, but it is generally OK. -walter On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Alexander Todorov [EMAIL

Re: Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-02-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi, Is there a wiki page (specific to SoC 2008) which can be used to build up a list of ideas ? I have been involved in the Summer of Code in 2007 (as a student under GNOME) - and I would love to help organize the SoC efforts from OLPC this year. Thanks, Sayamindu 2008/2/29 Samuel Klein [EMAIL

Re: Localization of TurtleArt

2008-02-29 Thread Alexander Todorov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Walter Bender wrote: I'm a bit rusty, but you can use the Gimp to do this, using Scheme scripts. I did have a bit of trouble with positioning on some RTL scripts as the Gimp is using fairly antiquated text rendering internally, but it is

Re: Localization of TurtleArt

2008-02-29 Thread Walter Bender
As I recall (it was a while ago) ImageMagic had lots of issues with non-Latin scripts. But it would be an easier route than the Gimp. -walter On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Alexander Todorov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Walter Bender wrote:

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: This needs to be rebased with our upstream AMD driver git. We're already a couple of commits after 2.7.7.6, while this tree is based upon 2.7.7.5. Yes. To begin with, I worked on the old OLPC fork because its my known-good codebase, and I was unsure whether the Xorg

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/02/08 16:28 +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Martin-Éric Racine wrote: This needs to be rebased with our upstream AMD driver git. We're already a couple of commits after 2.7.7.6, while this tree is based upon 2.7.7.5. Yes. To begin with, I worked on the old OLPC fork because its

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 08:43 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: We have just a few patches outstanding, but nothing serious. I don't know if Jim is ready to move OLPC to a newer X, but I do know that *we* are ready to move, so the logical move would be to base it on our tree, and then merge the

Re: [sugar] Journal: two quick suggestions

2008-02-29 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Eben Eliason schrieb: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while toying around with the Journal today I had two

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Actually, no - we're not up to date with OLPC, and nobody has actually tested the vanilla driver on the XO. The status on the wiki is clearly incorrect. The status is correct. It states that the vanilla driver has basic support in place but that it needs to be

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: There's plenty more people that could install and test this vanilla driver at Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and countless other distros that have decided to create OLPC install targets and yet we never heard from them on this issue. If there are plenty of Xorg distro

Re: Localization of TurtleArt

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Gettys
Hmmm... I wonder if just some scripts to take the text and use cairo to draw it (via inserting the text into SVG files at the right places), might be a way to completely automate the generation of the images that are used. Alternatively, using Cairo (maybe using pango, if we need to support RTL

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/02/08 08:44 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 29/02/08 17:33 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin-Éric Racine wrote: This needs to be rebased with our upstream AMD driver git. We're already a

Re: libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Jordan Crouse wrote: I don't know if Jim is ready to move OLPC to a newer X, but I do know that *we* are ready to move, so the logical move would be to base it on our tree, and then merge the rest of the OLPC tree in at our leisure and transition you guys to that. For now, I'm just

Accessing PenTablet coordinates from PyGTK

2008-02-29 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I'm trying to get access to the PenTablet from within a PyGTK application. Since the PenTablet isn't working in the current system, I had to modify xorg.conf to use the evdev driver (as in this example: http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/2198/new-xorg.conf). Doing this, I can get the

Re: [sugar] Journal: two quick suggestions

2008-02-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Christoph Derndorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One can imagine that the subject of an activity is actually subjectively defined, and even when it's relatively clear, we might wind up with some for each of math, geometry,

Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] libpciaccess patch

2008-02-29 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:20:00 +0200 Martin-Éric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Actually, no - we're not up to date with OLPC, and nobody has actually tested the vanilla driver on

Re: Accessing PenTablet coordinates from PyGTK

2008-02-29 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:08:41 -0500 Patrick Dubroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've tried setting SendCoreEvents to false, and then creating a GTK widget and registering for extension events. This allows to receive motion events from the PenTablet, but the x and y values in the event object

Re: Accessing PenTablet coordinates from PyGTK

2008-02-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Patrick Dubroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get access to the PenTablet from within a PyGTK application. Since the PenTablet isn't working in the current system, I had to modify xorg.conf to use the evdev driver (as in this example:

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-02-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Shankar Pokharel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/29/08, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a wiki page (specific to SoC 2008) which can be

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-02-29 Thread Shankar Pokharel
On 2/29/08, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a wiki page (specific to SoC 2008) which can be used to build up a list of ideas ? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008 I have been involved in the Summer of Code in 2007 (as a student under GNOME) - and I would

OLPC.tv and Gnash

2008-02-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
As far as I can tell, none of your videos at olpc.tv will play in the free Gnash replacement for the proprietary Flash. There is no 64-bit Flash that I can use on my AMD dual-core Ubuntu system, and the XO does not ship with proprietary software. I request that you get with the program. ^_^ If

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-02-29 Thread Don Hopkins
Thanks for creating the wiki page! I just added this to the Summer of Code 2008 Ideas page: http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code/2008 Micropolis I have a long list of interesting ways to develop Micropolis http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis, which I have written about

Re: OLPC.tv and Gnash

2008-02-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Edward Cherlin, Several .swf and .flv did not work under OLPC gnash. However, I assure you that all flash9 media did work smartly under SSS/OLPC that I develop under slackware 12.0 environment. I did test

Re: OLPC.tv and Gnash

2008-02-29 Thread John Gilmore
The versions of gnash in Ship.* and in Update.1 can't play streaming Ogg videos in a sub-window of a web page yet. That support is in current gnash CVS, and will be in next week's gnash-0.8.2 release, which should be in XO Update.2. However, the standard Browse in update.1 (and perhaps in

Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-29 Thread John Gilmore
Hmmm, so if my activity needs it's preferences before it can display anything to the user, potential future lazy loading of the data-store (to try and speed up general activity start-up time) is going to leave folks watching my activity with a blank screen for a lazy while? Ouch. Ahem.

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-02-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu I added a few of the ideas we have discussed on this list, and thought of a few more. Is there any code we need

Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC

2008-02-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu I added a few of the ideas