Re: Announcing the OLPC OS 10.1.2 final release!

2010-09-21 Thread James Zaki
Hi NoiseEHC, I dont know if there is a better place to note your feedback, but I'm glad you posted here. Am currently looking into the olpc forth programs, and this email has given me something to target for the time being. Cheers, James. 2010/9/21 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu Hi! I just

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-06 Thread James Zaki
Funny you should ask, I'm just getting my feet wet in module development in fedora, and now looking to compile a hello.ko for the xo1. I've got a few questions though, so I'll start a new post with questions unless there are some notes on getting started? (eg setting up required header files 'yum

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-05 Thread James Zaki
Hi all, For what its worth on this topic, I agree with automatically taking the resume option (from what I've read in this thread, the more probable and less problematic). But could you add a message hint that then dissappear after some seconds ? For example, when you launch, and auto-resume

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-05 Thread James Zaki
...@googlemail.com On 5 Jul 2010, at 14:13, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:29 +0200, James Zaki wrote: But could you add a message hint that then dissappear after some seconds ? For example, when you launch, and auto-resume last saved work, a discrete message

Re: multi-touch

2010-06-11 Thread James Zaki
Must admit, am an iPad/iPhone developer, in a mobile applications development company (trying to lean towards Android projects for more openness, and Bada to maintain my C/C++ ability) I'd love to have more time for my XO1 but...insert other priorities and poor time management excuses here. If

Re: OLPC/Marvell Press Release

2010-05-28 Thread James Zaki
, James Zaki 2010/5/27 Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org Folks - Below is the text version of the press release OLPC and Marvell issued this morning, announcing our agreement to work together on the tablet-based efforts we've been calling XO-3.0 and Marvell has been calling Moby (both previously

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread James Zaki
I'm guilty of spending more time than I probably should at newgrounds.com, their slogan being Everything, by Everyone. Its a melting pot of free content, and what really impresses me are the absolute gems of creativity that one finds from time to time. I dont see flash as the main XO education

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-25 Thread James Zaki
Sorry for the delayed response, I think I need to play around and compile a kernel module and then use it on the xo-1. But to answer a few of the questions... The init of the psmouse module triggers a calibration. that's certainly true, but i think it happens pretty early -- the kernel is

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-21 Thread James Zaki
...@laptop.org On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:30:06AM +0100, James Zaki wrote: The first thing I suspect most people do while waiting for the gui to become responsive is try to move the curser. Yes, I've seen children do that. Or press keyboard keys hoping it will go faster booting. It seems to work

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-20 Thread James Zaki
I've just setup my xo-1 with os11 and updated to near-latest (within a week off the top of my head) kernel + kernel-firmware. I'd like to do some touchpad testing if its of any help, but will need do a bit of a mental download to understand the pieces at play here. If someone could respond with

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-20 Thread James Zaki
...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:29 PM, James Zaki james.z...@gmail.com wrote: I've just setup my xo-1 with os11 and updated to near-latest (within a week off the top of my head) kernel + kernel-firmware. I'd like to do some touchpad testing if its of any help, but will need do a bit