Re: Avahi optimisations

2008-02-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 at 06:58:10 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Morgan Collett wrote: actually we are normally using b64 encoding so that brought it down to 28 bytes. Using SHA-256 it's 44 bytes in the TXT record. But _why_ are we encoding at all? TXT RDATA is

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-07 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 at 23:06:19 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Next, according to dbus-python's dbus/_dbus.py, the SessionBus returned when you call SessionBus() is cached in Bus._shared_instances[BUS_SESSION] This is not an API guarantee;

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: coping with lost connectivity (was: mesh portal discovery)

2008-01-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 at 12:00:02 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: This is precisely what I am saying. Telepathy should only register a disconnect if there is no way to route between two XOs. The mesh system should be designed so that moving about within the mesh, or handing off between

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-10 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 at 22:17:18 -0500, John Watlington wrote: We have a presence service which provides a way for P2P applications to find one another, even after the IP changes. Presence Service isn't magical. If a laptop's IP address changes,

Re: server-to-server communication (was: A jabber hosting offer)

2008-01-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 at 22:01:03 -0700, drew einhorn wrote: If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers The underlying protocol of the server-based collaboration is XMPP. In XMPP, you never need to connect to

Re: [PATCH] [XoIRC] Make default nicks more meaningful (#5385)

2007-12-28 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 at 18:36:49 -0600, Phil Bordelon wrote: By default, XoIRC uses the username when another nick is not provided. Alas, for every XO, this is 'olpc'. This makes for rather a mess in the IRC channels. This patch instead

Re: Fake mesh over IP.

2007-12-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 at 11:36:08 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote: Is there an easy way of using salut on the regular (non-mesh) wifi interface? That would cover only laptops on the same LAN and be suited for a school laboratory or a household. Join an ordinary wifi access point and this will

Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 at 07:51:38 -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: I'm not sure that a multi-way video conference is even feasible yet. It's certainly not in the short term - the Telepathy and Farsight frameworks, and the underlying protocols they currently use (Jingle), only support 1-1 audio/video

Re: when an xo loses connection, how long does it take to disappear from other's neighbor view?

2007-11-08 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 at 17:49:52 -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: Just a mention, since this thread is getting a lot of attention. There is an added visual element which should be in play here, according to the design. There should be an intermediate

Re: when an xo loses connection, how long does it take to disappear from other's neighbor view?

2007-11-08 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 at 13:36:45 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: I can definitely try to arrange this. But, can you please send me the tarball to test it in the mean time? Will do. I don't think it's feasible to implement correct handling of PS

Re: Compiler optimization for Geode, migrating to F8, build system

2007-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 at 15:13:39 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Yes. The problem is that building a package or two in a separate environment is feasible, but rebuilding a whole distribution from scratch is *hard*. It requires you to install and

Re: when an xo loses connection, how long does it take to disappear from other's neighbor view?

2007-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In reply to your previous mail, iff means if and only if. It's often used by mathematicians. On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 at 03:23:39 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: What does proper notification mean? Which are the cases that it happens? If Salut is

Re: when an xo loses connection, how long does it take to disappear from other's neighbor view?

2007-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 at 12:05:59 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: Giannis Galanis wrote: 1. Is there a way to restart the presence service? In that way we can resolve a weird state. Will killing restarting the porcess work? Killing it will result in it being restarted. However, Sugar remains in

Re: Mandatory Changelogs

2007-10-29 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 at 18:55:34 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Dear Sugar and Devel, ChangeLogs in the format described on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system#ChangeLog_Format are now MANDATORY for package inclusion. Please write yours.

Re: ip4-address buddy property - still needed?

2007-10-26 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 at 00:20:01 -0400, Giannis Galanis wrote: The feature, although not usable by the activities, it has other benefits. By observing the buddy list, you acquire instant information of the network connection go the users: when

Re: ip4-address buddy property to be replaced by stream tubes

2007-10-25 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 at 10:37:50 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Erik Blankinship wrote: Record uses ip4-address, but we've just about completed Record Tubes (and it is working great). Should Activity developers assume that stream tubes will

New FRS blocker #4438 - Salut collaboration not working

2007-10-24 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In Joyride builds 89 and up, Salut Tubes channels don't work due to a mismatch between the low- and high-level implementation. Guillaume has a fix, I'm filing this bug to track the process of getting it into builds. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Presence service bugs/enhancements

2007-10-23 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 at 07:55:57 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote: 1. The presence service should detect more efficiently the internet connectivity and switch to gabble when appropriate(4193) As I commented on the bug, we need debug logs - this should have

Salut (link-local) protocol changing - don't expect interop between versions

2007-10-18 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a heads-up for anyone who isn't already aware: We're replacing the Salut (link-local collaborative backend) rMulticast protocol with a better version, over the next week or so (bug #4044). This is an incompatible change; there may in fact be

Re: keyboard layout image license

2007-10-15 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 at 11:43:48 -0400, Ed Trager wrote: Based on my understanding of a recent discussion I had with licensing experts at the institution where I currently work (USA), LGPLv2 or Apache or other software licenses which Albert

Re: funny behaviour gtk+python

2007-10-04 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, didn't send my reply to both the mailing lists. Replying to myself to preserve the cross-posting. On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 at 14:44:08 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 at 14:23:58 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Just to add