DHTML Notepad activity

2008-04-15 Thread Luke Closs
Thanks to some help from some developers at a MozCamp this weekend, I made significant progress on the python-javascript communication challenge. In preparation for integrating Socialcalc with the journal, I've created a sample activity called OnePageWiki that is basically a notepad in a HTML

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

2008-04-15 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:30 PM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morgan, I am one of those people developing activities that make use of collaboration. I'm pleased to see that someone has been charged to make that easier, especially through better documentation. My Activities are

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone opine as to whether it's possible/feasible right now to estimate number of minutes of battery power remaining? You could look at gnome-power-manager, which performs a principled estimation -- a

Re: [sugar] Clipboard Notification

2008-04-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Eric Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While trying to create an instance of NotificationIcon() in the _object_added_cb function in clipboardtray.py I couldn't get the path to the icon from the ClipboardIcon() instance because it isn't set until

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *think* Richard mentioned that he planned to move the gnome-power-manager logic to OHM at some point. That would be excellent! I was going to look at g-p-m as Chris mentioned, on the off (ok, non-existent)

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-15 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:35:39AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone opine as to whether it's possible/feasible right now to estimate number of minutes of battery power remaining? You could

/home is full on dev.laptop.org

2008-04-15 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Hi, Don't know what the right person to inform but /home is full on dev.laptop.org, making git push impossible. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 9.2G 3.5G 5.7G 39% / varrun2.4G 88K 2.4G 1% /var/run

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I *think* Richard mentioned that he planned to move the gnome-power-manager logic to OHM at some point. Sounds good. There haven't been any upstream commits to OHM in over six months, though, so I think we'd have to do this ourselves. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

2008-04-15 Thread Eben Eliason
I too have been having this issue lately, after having updated to 1850. I've never inserted an SD card, so I'm not sure if that's a false positive or not in your case. It happens to me almost regularly when waking the laptop from a closed state, with exactly the same symptoms described in the

Re: [sugar] Clipboard Notification

2008-04-15 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Marco, What if the activity hangs? I have seen that several times with Xaos fractal builder activity and possibly others. I remember one case in Nepal where it took 20 minutes to launch eToys. I think the UI suggestion is great and will help prevent kids from clicking on many activities

Activity Launch Notification

2008-04-15 Thread Eben Eliason
What if the activity hangs? I have seen that several times with Xaos fractal builder activity and possibly others. I remember one case in Nepal where it took 20 minutes to launch eToys. I think the UI suggestion is great and will help prevent kids from clicking on many activities

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I've had these symptoms often over the course of the last two months, with various update.1 / joyride builds. This is http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6590. I'll put more effort into reproducing it here. The issue seems a lot more often / prevelant when I had an SD card

How to use Salut?

2008-04-15 Thread James Simmons
Morgan, Thanks for the information on ejabberd. I may try that this weekend. I am still puzzled by salut, though. I am using sugar-jhbuild on openSUSE 10.2 and everything seemed to compile OK, but running two instances of Sugar does not seem to support sharing when the Collabora server is

Re: Severe new bug in firmware Q2D13?

2008-04-15 Thread Mitch Bradley
Some of the machines from the first production run had bad battery holders. Not the main battery, but rather the small coin cell battery on the mainboard that powers the time-of-day/calendar clock chip. Those battery holders have a plastic retention lip that holds the coin cell in place. On

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-15 Thread Prabhas Pokharel
First, the script that Hindi is written in is called Devnagari, and also used by other langauges (including Marathi according to Wikipedia). On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:34:26PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: However, i

Driver patch approved

2008-04-15 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi! I would like to ask your attention to the kernel patch at: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/#comment:4 It fixes ethtool -S, a very important debugging tool (it provides NIC statistics). It was proposed by dwmw2 and already tested. It seems ready for committing. Best regards, Ricardo

Re: How to use Salut?

2008-04-15 Thread Morgan Collett
Hi James On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the information on ejabberd. I may try that this weekend. I am still puzzled by salut, though. I am using sugar-jhbuild on openSUSE 10.2 and everything seemed to compile OK, but running two

RE: Activity Launch Notification

2008-04-15 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Eben, Thanks for the comment and for covering all the bases. I'm not sure what zoom level means or what the frame will look like in this case. Regardless, if the kids can still launch other activities you may want to check this design to ensure it covers the basic challenge raised by Carol in

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

2008-04-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The issue seems a lot more often / prevalent when I had an SD card inserted before suspending. Bingo! I have a permanent SD card which I (manually) use for my datastore (I'm not a Journal lover). I wrote up #6584 because I'd as soon have the OLPC software KEEP ITS HANDS OFF my SD. [I'd be

Re: Activity Launch Notification

2008-04-15 Thread Eben Eliason
I'm not sure what zoom level means or what the frame will look like in this case. Regardless, if the kids can still launch other activities you may want to check this design to ensure it covers the basic challenge raised by Carol in the SouthBronx class. That is, does it prevent kids

Re: Activity Launch Notification

2008-04-15 Thread david
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Eben Eliason wrote: BTW I am starting to ask users if they like the hot corners frame popup thingy. Let me know if you are open to feedback on that and if you have any alternative design proposals to share or specific questions you want answered. We've recognized

Re: Activity Launch Notification

2008-04-15 Thread NoiseEHC
We've recognized that accidental activation of the Frame is a problem, but haven't had time to implement any of the proposed changes. The simplest change we hope to add is a tiny delay, to prevent accidental activation when attempting to reach a button or element near the corners. Even a

Re: Activity Launch Notification

2008-04-15 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:18:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since there is a key on the keyboard dedicated to controlling the frame, I have been very happy with just disabling the automatic popup completely. Ditto, for the same reason. David Lang Martin pgpiYluTruEp8.pgp

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-15 Thread Shikhar
Scrabble and crossworld puzzles aren't quite the same thing. The deal with crossword puzzles is that you only need to put in the exact glyphs that are in the crossword puzzle, whereas scrabble will have to have every single one. In Nepali, the number of devnagari letters we use

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-15 Thread Prabhas Pokharel
even better would be two sets of tiles that can be superimposed, one for the vowel (or half-letter) part and one for the consonant part. Sorry thought of this too late, I was thinking too much along physical-scrabble lines before. -p On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Shikhar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Olivier Bélanger
Hi all, I'm working on sharing resources between our 4 activities with respect to the security policy. It will be very helpfull if you have time to give me your opinion on the problem... Here is the situation: TamTamJam and TamTamSynthLab produce sounds that we want usable by any TamTam

Re: Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Bélanger wrote: | Is there a way to let all TamTam activities have access to a common | directory? No. Activities are untrusted code. The security design assumes that every Activity is a trojan horse, unless the user specifically requests

Re: Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Eben Eliason
Olivier Bélanger wrote: | Is there a way to let all TamTam activities have access to a common | directory? No. Activities are untrusted code. The security design assumes that every Activity is a trojan horse, unless the user specifically requests otherwise. | How do think this

New joyride build 1870

2008-04-15 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1870 Changes in build 1870 from build: 1858 Size delta: 0.13M -rsync 2.6.9-3.fc7 +rsync 2.6.9-6.fc7 -speex 1.2-0.2.beta1 +speex 1.2-0.3.beta1 -taglib 1.4-5.fc7 +taglib 1.5-1.fc7 --- Changes for rsync 2.6.9-6.fc7 from 2.6.9-3.fc7 ---

New faster build 1870

2008-04-15 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1870 Changes in build 1870 from build: 1858 Size delta: 0.00M -rsync 2.6.9-3.fc7 +rsync 2.6.9-6.fc7 -speex 1.2-0.2.beta1 +speex 1.2-0.3.beta1 -taglib 1.4-5.fc7 +taglib 1.5-1.fc7 --- Changes for rsync 2.6.9-6.fc7 from 2.6.9-3.fc7 --- +

Re: Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Olivier Bélanger
Thanks for quick answers! Le 08-04-15 à 20:43, Eben Eliason a écrit : Olivier Bélanger wrote: | Is there a way to let all TamTam activities have access to a common | directory? No. Activities are untrusted code. The security design assumes that every Activity is a trojan horse,

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

2008-04-15 Thread Ixo X oxI
I too since before joyride 1850 (sorry, I don't know exactly when it started.) I have no SD card in slot. I frequently travel with my XO around town during my various meetings and volunteer activities. Great little device for taking quick notes at the table. :-) Take it to one meeting, take

Initial FiftyTwo release

2008-04-15 Thread kawk
I've released FiftyTwo onto the internet (finally . . .): wiki.laptop.org/go/Games/FiftyTwo Can anyone give me feedback on how I'm doing? Thanks, KAWK ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

[Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear

2008-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Michail, Wad, what do we know about the possibility of connecting to our active antennaes with regular WiFi hardware, perhaps from OTS laptops using linux? cheers, martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted

[Server-devel] AP association, and mesh behaviour

2008-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi list, Michail, here in Lima we are looking a behaviour of the network association UI that I am not sure whether is intended... The versions are: - image 703 - Q2D14 Process: 1 - the laptop boots and does not associate immediately to an AP or active antenna 2 - user selects an AP in the