Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christoph Wickert christoph.wick...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.01.2009, 17:31 -0500 schrieb Erik Garrison: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:54:24PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 06.01.2009, at 22:34, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Carlos

Re: Nand blaster with 30 XOs

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Garrison
Please see: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-January/022334.html I hope that is enough to get started. I don't know if the best place to continue discussion is in this thread or that. In any case I will be happy to help. The thread already has some good commentaries analyzing the

goodbye olpc

2009-01-09 Thread Erik Garrison
Like many who have been involved in software and support, my contract with OLPC terminates this afternoon. My tenure as a software engineer was relatively short, but wonderful. To all at OLPC: it has been a pleasure working with you. I have learned much. I have had wonderful experiences and

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:47:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: I don't believe that is true at all. I believe XFCE is an install option during a full install and there's a fully Fedora blessed XFCE spin available from Fedora here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ . It

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:47:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: One thing, we try not to do, is deviate from upstream and apply many patches like some of the other Xfce based spin-off's do which is a general Fedora policy as well and not something specific to the Xfce team. The patches

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:31:12PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Peter, How did you go with this? Did you have any luck? I also realised that if you drop gnome-user-share you'll drop all the httpd requirements. Yep, it worked! I had RPM conflicts in GConf2 (against GConf2-dbus,

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:23:24PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Now, the question I have is why we would chose GNOME over XFCE. I think there are significant differences in system resource consumption. We had a long thread about whether to use GNOME or XFCE on devel@ last

Re: Customized images

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:23:32PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:27:45PM -0500, Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio wrote: I have a fully customized XO and i need to take an image from it to be installed on several computers inside the project. The thing is i need it to be

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:54:24PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 06.01.2009, at 22:34, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Carlos Nazareno wrote: Guys, maybe this can help. I whipped up a flash CPU benchmarking tool Currently, we are assuming that the issue will be RAM consumption, not

Re: Customized images

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio wrote: I'm sorry there was a misunderstanding on my part. The idea with the images is for manufacturing the computers. In my state we want to make a kind of customized image with some configuration and send for

Cleaning cloned images [was: Re: Customized images]

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:53:19PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:52:44PM -0500, Erik Garrison wrote: ... We haven't worked on figuring out what pieces of the system are touched, so, as Michael notes, copying the machines can have unintended side effects. It seems

Re: Building Custom Kernel RPMS

2008-12-19 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 07:32:35PM +, Deepak Saxena wrote: Note that this still requires a Fedora/RHEL system to build kernels, or a functioning mock/chroot setup (untested so far). I have tested on F10 and FC6 systems. Please let me know if you have any problems on other systems. What

Re: nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Erik Garrison
Hi Emiliano! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:22:37PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Hi everyone! We're doing some tests with firmware q2e24 but we're having trouble when trying to serve an unsigned build. As it says at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update , we need an fs.plc

Re: Loosing the Activity window after displaying a OpenFile dialog box

2008-12-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:37:55PM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi , In the application that I am developing for the XO there is a Open button which displays an Open File dialog box and lets you choose which file to open in the activity. But when I click on the button and the dialog box

Re: nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Erik Garrison
: Thanks, Erik! I'll try it right now On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Erik Garrison e...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Emiliano! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:22:37PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Hi everyone! We're doing some tests with firmware q2e24 but we're having trouble when

Re: No surprise on memory

2008-12-16 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:45:52PM -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Well, I wasn't trying to give a solution, just suggested a less bad way to fail. IMO, just trying to find the perfect solution while not doing anything

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)

2008-12-16 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:42:48PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: Hi All, Thanks for all the feedback on my questions about what it would take to run a slimmed down Fedora 10 on the XO NAND. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00022.html To reiterate, the goal is

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-16 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:56:47PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, (but seriously: we only need to add to what we have -- we don't need to start from scratch, rebuilding and/or subtracting from fedora.) In particular, I think: * take a Joyride build * yum groupinstall

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)

2008-12-16 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Erik Garrison e...@laptop.org wrote: I have been quite frustrated with the Fedora toolset in this regard. Getting a bare minimum of functionality is not something which these tools

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)

2008-12-16 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:32:58AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: The hard part will come when we need to pick the bare minimum set of functionality. I especially want to know what additional libraries/RPMs/features we need to install beyond what we alrady have in XO 8.2.0. I have been

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-08 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:04:23AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hi all, We are trying to figure out a way to bundle the mozplugger plugin[1] in Browse, so that PDF files can be viewed from within Browse itself. Does anyone know how this can be done. Apart from the mozplugger plugin

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-08 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:06:48AM +, Gary C Martin wrote: On 8 Dec 2008, at 19:29, Erik Garrison wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:04:23AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hi all, We are trying to figure out a way to bundle the mozplugger plugin[1] in Browse, so that PDF files can

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-05 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:36:53PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: * Will it stop us from being able to hold two SugarOS builds on the NAND at the same time after olpc-update, as we do now? GS - Possibly depending on space needed. I think we would consider losing that feature if needed. tbd. I'm

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:36:53PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: Hi Erik, Peter and Chris, Thanks a lot for the comments and offer of help! I updated the requirement to explain that the idea is a slimmed down version of Fedora which fits on our NAND. I added a comment about upgrading too.

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Erik Garrison wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ignacio wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-29 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ignacio wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-(

Re: Conundrum - XO connected to AP + Mesh?

2008-11-23 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:07:03AM -0500, John Watlington wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Ian Daniher wrote: Hello all, I've been asking on #olpc-devel the last few days, trying to figure out how to connect my XO simultaneously to both a mexh network and to an AP. My goal is

zero install: application bundles, security, dependencies

2008-11-23 Thread Erik Garrison
I encourage anyone interested in application bundles to please check out http://0install.net/. Please take a minute to watch the video demo on the homepage; it describes the 0install process quite well. There seems to be significant overlap between our work with .xo bundles and security systems

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:14:23PM -0800, Luke Faraone wrote: Andres Salomon-4 wrote: - A new 'base' desktop has been added. This is a minimal install, with no graphics or X at all. It's good for rescue situations, or where you have a local package mirror and don't want to waste

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:42:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you can resolve these warnings by running the locale-gen utility. I had already run that, and the discouraging results pasted in the top of the pastebin

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:04, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:42:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you can resolve

Re: add xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds

2008-11-11 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:47:16AM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Erik Garrison wrote: Attached is a patch to pilgrim which adds xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds. This is a prerequisite for testing. Size delta is negligible: I believe the binary is 26K. Could we enable

add xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds

2008-11-10 Thread Erik Garrison
Attached is a patch to pilgrim which adds xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds. This is a prerequisite for testing. Size delta is negligible: I believe the binary is 26K. Could we enable this? Bernie and I are in agreement that we need to start testing of composite. Erik diff --git

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-03 Thread Erik Garrison
This sounds right. The OHM packages aren't in any debian repo afaik, so we'll have to package them. Then we'd need a debian repository for these packages. On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:53:40AM -0500, Ian Daniher wrote: RE Suspend / Resume : talk to CJB(Chris Ball) about OHM. I spoke with him a

Re: Data Storage and User-facing System Requirements [was Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files]

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:09:16PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: It seems from my reading of mailing lists, IRC logs, and listening to conversations with people that we are trying to resolve all of these issues

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:10:08PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. You need to upgrade Open Firmware to q2e20. You can do so

Re: Bios OLPC

2008-10-29 Thread Erik Garrison
Fabricio, Para acceder al bios (firmware) del sistema es necesario obtener una clave de desarollador: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys (lo explica en íngles). Otra pregunta: Que SO quieres bootear desde el pendrive? Saludos, Erik On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:23:46AM

Re: Bios OLPC

2008-10-29 Thread Erik Garrison
at 05:16:50PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: Fabricio, Para acceder al bios (firmware) del sistema es necesario obtener una clave de desarollador: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys (lo explica en íngles). Otra pregunta: Que SO quieres bootear desde el pendrive

Re: Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

2008-10-29 Thread Erik Garrison
I think we should not run the activity if it's already running. But there are cases such as when I'm running Browse, in which I have multiple sessions open. Or sessions of paint. It's complicated and probably should be left up to the user. Someone might want to run two of anything. On Wed,

9.1 Proposal: Files

2008-10-27 Thread Erik Garrison
By reintroducing the concept of files to our systems we can simplify our work in a number of areas relative to 8.2: - Compatibility with existing applications: One of the principal reasons that the tens of thousands of open source applications that run on Linux aren't usable under Sugar is that

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-26 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/10/08 00:00 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: The Geode X drive copyes every bit of data to the command ring buffer by using the CPU so that is sure that those almost no CPU cycles thing is at least a bit stretch... :)

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 24.10.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Chris Ball: I can't reproduce this here, but we did make a change yesterday that's probably responsible. Someone else on IRC reported seeing it, too. That's me...

9.1 Proposal: Performance

2008-10-22 Thread Erik Garrison
Proposal, Implement the following hacks for a big performance boost from the XO+Sugar user perspective. Other systemic changes which could be made to improve system performance from the user's perspective. Discuss. Erik http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020404.html

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Deailing with Low Memory/OOM

2008-10-22 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:44:50AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: I would like to present a short session and faciliate the follow up discussion on and dealing with the memory constraints on our system at an application framework level. From my understanding, there are two situations we are

Re: latest problems

2008-10-21 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:53:53AM -0400, elana langer wrote: Hey there- I was at a school yesterday and it seemed like the three major problems they faced were: 1) computer freezing constantly Are the freezes 'hard'? Does the whole system lock up? Or can you still move the mouse, or

Re: simple hacks to improve the performance of the Sugar UI

2008-10-18 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Andrés Ambrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a couple of notes. [PATCH] sugar-homewindow-no-transition.patch This removes the usage of TransitionBox from HomeWindow.py.

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:07:58PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: I'd like to present a few areas where sugar can play nice with others, including: * replacing the matchbox window manager, to provide better multiple-window support for legacy apps (think of the 'gimp', running as multiple

simple hacks to improve the performance of the Sugar UI

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Garrison
XO Users, In short, I have bundled a set of 'hacks' which generally (and in my observation, dramatically) improve the user-perceived responsiveness of the Sugar UI. The hack bundle is available at http://dev.laptop.org/~erik/faster-hacks.zip I write requesting independent evaluation of the

Re: Weekend Report

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Garrison
Erik Garrison spent the week testing various hierarchical file managers which could potentially be used in Sugar and working on UI performance issues. To close the week he published a set of potential modifications to the OLPC software distribution which dramatically improve user interface

planning session for a technical conference for OLPC customers and community members

2008-10-16 Thread Erik Garrison
Mel Chua, Hernan Pachas and I will meet in #olpc on FreeNode at 1pm EDT to discuss a technical meeting for countries, community members, and OLPC customers in general. Such a meeting would be a forum to integrate feedback from the field with our work at OLPC. Hernan suggested the idea in late

failures disabling security [was Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age]

2008-10-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:30:47PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:55:43PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: In particular, our security model has the effect of preventing work on this issue that isn't supported by all the core developers. Scott seems to be suffering

Re: Updated UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Garrison
laptop at my disposal and I'm working on other issues at the moment, but should work as I've just copied the commands you note into a forth source file. Erik \ ubi tests \ nand updater script \ Deepak Saxena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) \ Erik Garrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dev nand : write-blocks write-pages

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:15:31PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also like to stop calling this 9.1 planning. We need to plan the development work we need to get done, regardless of whether that work will be

Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age

2008-10-09 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:13:02PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tomeu. Some personal feedback: 3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to use over a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:46:56PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just a brief note summarizing our experience at the http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest In short: * Scott gave a long talk on

Re: Slowness (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Erik Garrison
Hey Elana, One thing which you can do to improve activity switching performance is to run xcompmgr (X composite manager). This prevents the activities from burning CPU time redrawing themselves every time they are switched to by persistently caching the video memory used by each window. The

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:14:13PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was in Uruguay

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:20:48AM -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are we going to rectify the general slowness of our user interface? It may not be enough to work on the performance problem from within

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:59:23PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: (This knowledge is becoming quite common in at least one of our deployments. Just yesterday a kid from Uruguay came into #olpc-ayuda to ask exactly how to do this. And this morning a user spontaneously wrote rm

Re: Walter Bender: Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:07:51AM -0400, Bobby Powers wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind if the G1G1 donors have the option to participate in testing secured laptops, but I utterly reject the notion that we can jerk customer/donors

Re: [sugar] Feedback on Measure (was Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results)

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:47:36AM -0400, Erik Blankinship wrote: Do you need to do that for each window? Why don't you just listen for that signal in just the main activity window and stop everything when gtk.gdk.VISIBILITY_FULLY_OBSCURED and resume when otherwise? Full screen modes

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-24 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: We all agree that the datastore needs serious attention, although it doesn't directly impact the running of legacy activities. Rainbow is an issue. And moving data back and forth between Sugar and legacy apps is an issue. But I'll

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Garrison
of the Journal has to do with this thread? -walter On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: My impression, based on historical conversations with the parties involved is that there are a bunch of hackers

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Garrison
of the Journal has to do with this thread? -walter On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: My impression, based on historical conversations with the parties involved is that there are a bunch of hackers

Re: [sugar] frame gets in the way when alt-tabbing

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:28:33PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... So perhaps the best thing to do is to add a configuration option to allow the user to enable or disable this behavior? Would it be better

notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was in Uruguay more teachers asked me about issues with the Journal than anything else. I keep poking on this issue to remind people that it's

Re: [sugar] frame gets in the way when alt-tabbing

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 03:21:04PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 23 Sep 2008, at 15:08, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 23.09.2008 um 06:21 schrieb Erik Garrison: Both Joyride and 8.2 streams have composition enabled by default. You can test composition by running xcompmgr -d :0.0

Re: [sugar] Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:05:55PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: A hand-drawn proposal for what a Journal supporting directory traversal as well as tag space exploration is in the attached PDF. Discussion welcome! I am unable to view this PDF. It appears blank on this end. Would you

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-22 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: My impression, based on historical conversations with the parties involved is that there are a bunch of hackers who feel that we did ourselves a disservice by dropping _so much_ backwards compatibility, specifically with Unix

Re: Bundle activity

2008-09-11 Thread Erik Garrison
Matt, Would this activity be modified easily to take files from within the Journal and move them back into the user's /home/, either compressed or uncompressed? Call it the File activity. Erik On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:49:03AM -0400, Matt Der wrote: Hello all, I am one of the students who

Re: Bundle activity

2008-09-11 Thread Erik Garrison
and creating bundles. - Eben On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Would this activity be modified easily to take files from within the Journal and move them back into the user's /home/, either compressed or uncompressed? Call it the File activity

Re: Bundle activity

2008-09-11 Thread Erik Garrison
- Am 11.09.2008 um 22:12 schrieb Erik Garrison: Bundles are files. In this case they are compressed files. I'm just pointing out that if we're going to work with files of this kind we should think about working with files of the non-compressed kind. The overlap between the Bundle tool

Re: Scratch localization.

2008-09-11 Thread Erik Garrison
working on that now, with help from Scott if he is willing). Scratch does not need to write persistent data to any other files. (It does need to write user projects somewhere, but Scott has solved that problem for now.) -- John On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Erik Garrison wrote

Re: [PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-09-10 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:38:15AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[RFC] obtaining and using field samples of XO system images

2008-09-05 Thread Erik Garrison
Devel, -= Some background =- Today on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] There has been a discussion of the security rammifications of an automatic save-nand usb key script: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/security/2008-September/000488.html The immediate use for this script was

Re: [Server-devel] new package: xs-activation

2008-09-04 Thread Erik Garrison
from USB stick so n/a for lease management changes but my impression is that Peru will want to know. Thanks, Greg S Erik Garrison wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:18:31AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: A couple of notes related to it. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith Can

Re: New joyride build 2382

2008-09-03 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:00:39PM -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2382 Changes in build 2382 from build: 2381 Size delta: 0.00M -etoys 3.0.2121-1 +etoys 3.0.2126-1 Forgive the confusion, but are activities again supposed to

Re: New joyride build 2382

2008-09-03 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:19:22PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:00:39PM -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2382 Changes in build

Attention! Activity authors: spanish title translations

2008-09-03 Thread Erik Garrison
Activity authors, The following activities (which can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~erik/activities/Activities_Modif_703-7/) were modified by myself, Wad, and the Peru support team in the process of producing the most recent Peru build

Attention! Activity authors: spanish title translations

2008-09-03 Thread Erik Garrison
Activity authors, (on devel AND sugar) The following activities (which can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~erik/activities/Activities_Modif_703-7/) were modified by myself, Wad, and the Peru support team in the process of producing the most recent Peru build

Re: [Server-devel] new package: xs-activation

2008-09-03 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:18:31AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: A couple of notes related to it. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith Can you put this feature on the roadmap: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Roadmap It's already there - we're using Trac's status overview searches,

Re: qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

2008-08-28 Thread Erik Garrison
I need to change the language to Spanish. This is for use in an educational video. The ext3 images don't have .mo files for Sugar and other system utils. So unless the livecd already has those, I'm going to continue with this route. Erik On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:22:55AM +0200, [EMAIL

Re: Default permissions of /home/olpc/Activities/foo

2008-08-28 Thread Erik Garrison
On first boot olpc-configure sets the permissions of all directories in /home/olpc (excepting isolation directories) to chmod 755. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:56:44PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, What is the default permission of any file/directory under /home/olpc/Activities ? I am

Re: Ext3 images from recent 8.2 builds do not boot in qemu.

2008-08-27 Thread Erik Garrison
I am working with the construction of a Qemu ext3 image. On Qemu boot I get the following error: Checking filesystems fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=OLPCRoot'[FAILED] I am rebuilding the image to make it larger because I was unable to resize it directly so that it could fit all the

Re: Scratch localization.

2008-08-27 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:54:18PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 27.08.2008 um 18:38 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: Scratch appears to require manual editing of the Scratch.ini file in order to come up in a language other than English. Is there any way I can pass a command-line option

Re: Ext3 images from recent 8.2 builds do not boot in qemu.

2008-08-27 Thread Erik Garrison
Yeah. Apologies for pegging this thread. e2label to the right name was the solution. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:03:05PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, I am working with the construction of a Qemu ext3 image. On Qemu boot I get the following error: Checking filesystems

Re: increased transient traffic in #olpc-ayuda

2008-08-26 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:14:23PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: During g1g1 the support-gang (even before it was formalized) answered questions in #olpc-help and many important questions get answered there on a regular basis. If there were a few support-ganger's available we would have a

qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

2008-08-26 Thread Erik Garrison
I am trying to generate an image usable in Qemu for use by the Peru team in the production of a series of videos about the XO. I am generating this image because the existing ones are out of date with respect to the current Peru deployment's software, and they have requested if it would be

Re: Scratch fails to write to Scratch.activity/Projects

2008-08-26 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:40:34PM -0400, John Maloney wrote: Hi, Scott. What's wrong with just making the directory Scratch.activity/Projects writable by the world? Seems to me that it could not hurt other applications. Scratch does not run any binary files from that folder, so it

Re: qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

2008-08-26 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:40:09PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I am stuck because I do not know how to write grub to an image file. Here is what happens when I try to write the bootloader [3] on a loopback

using wiki pageviews per country of origin to motivate translations

2008-08-25 Thread Erik Garrison
It has recently come to my attention that the majority of the traffic on the wiki is coming from Uruguay XO users (students it seems). Could we track, or are we already tracking, pageviews per page by country of origin on wiki.laptop.org? It would be an extremely useful metric in deciding which

increased transient traffic in #olpc-ayuda

2008-08-25 Thread Erik Garrison
In recent weeks there has been a marked increase of guests in #olpc-ayuda. Here is a typical session: 20:57 -!- NombreCambiado-1c42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] has joined #olpc-ayuda 20:58 NombreCambiado-1c42 hola soy _ . nopuedo ver videos 21:06 -!- NombreCambiado-1c42 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

localization of translation efforts in perú

2008-08-22 Thread Erik Garrison
Sayamindu, Here at the Ministry of Education in Lima there is a person on staff whose sole work is translation. I want to explain to them how they can go about producing translations for the activity set which is in the customization key which Ciro and I are building here. What is the most

customization key + system modifications

2008-08-21 Thread Erik Garrison
I feel that I saw something on [EMAIL PROTECTED] previously on this topic, but was unable to find it via a search of the list archives. Asking around #olpc-devel suggests that there is no such method. Currently there is no method to set items settable via sugar-control panel using the

Re: customization key + system modifications

2008-08-21 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:40:33PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Erik, Currently there is no method to set items settable via sugar-control panel using the customization key, or to run a script of some kind at customization-key unpacking time? It might be very useful if not

Re: olpc school request

2008-08-21 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:17:58PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: * Have the government buy a large number of units. This is what Peru and Paraguay have done. Uruguay, not Paraguay ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: OS versioning

2008-08-21 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:32:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, victor wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:18:47 +0100 From: victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: OS versioning Hello everyone, I was trying to find the correct info on OS

Re: reverting to ancient gstreamer, good time to implement change control?

2008-08-19 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:23:27PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, I've spent too many hours on Record and there are still outstanding blockers. I'm pretty stumped on one of them: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7452 http://marc.info/?l=gstreamer-develm=121848539729018w=2 And haven't even

Re: what is a Customization key ?

2008-08-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:35:23AM -0700, S Page wrote: Erik Garrison wrote: I have built a customization key for use by Perú immediately following provisional testing. ... The key is comprised of the previously shipped Perú activity pack and an updated content bundle sent to us by Perú

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