offer of assistance: Java and Qt

2012-03-25 Thread Karl Pietrzak
Hello there! My name is Karl, and I'm wondering if I can be of any (development) assistance. I know Linux, Java and, to a lesser extent, Qt. Please don't hesitate to give me a shout back, thank you! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-27 Thread karl ramberg
downloads to Journal, it is a little timeconsuming to exit Firefox and open Browse to download a pdf or other format. Some annotation tool is probably a must for education. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Date And Time control panel renamed to Timezones ?

2008-09-12 Thread karl ramberg
The control panel called Date and time could maybe be renamed Timezones as you really don't set or see either date or time with the current one. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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

2008-08-27 Thread karl ramberg
Bert have implemented Etoy saving to the Journal but I guess the backporting that to older Squeak images Scratch use could be a issue. On 8/27/08, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erik, John et al, Scratch is hot in the field right now! Kids are posting Scratch projects out of Uruguay

Re: etoys implementation

2008-06-25 Thread Karl Ramberg
of different users have their own agenda and objectives. Therefor a plethora of images are available and are specialized for their use, much like different Linux distributions. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: #7062 NORM Never A: TestTile does not alow 'random (5) = 3'

2008-05-23 Thread Karl Ramberg
Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #7062: TestTile does not alow 'random (5) = 3' -+-- Reporter: karl| Owner: etoys Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-23 Thread Karl Ramberg
- A little off topic here, but I saw this cool video on how to make a cheap multi touch input device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpr3W-YmcQ With this, one could start experimenting with features and possible issues such a device brings up. Karl

Re: Frame Decision (was [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Ramberg
and drag of not-an-object (like a paintbrush). In fact, just doing that right would resolve the worst Frame interaction with Paint since the Frame would not activate if you enter the corner with mouse down but you are not dragging anything. +1 Karl

Re: New joyride build 1935

2008-05-10 Thread Karl Ramberg
Now that activities no longer are included in the builds could Berts update activities script be included ? http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebert/update-activities.py Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Olpc-update issues

2008-04-29 Thread karl
It seems the latest updates to Joyride is not propagated to where ever olpc-update get its update info from. It stopped working after 1898 http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Auto backlight management?

2008-04-25 Thread karl
(or automatically for convenience). Hey, why not let the kids build this them self ? Here is a DIY light sensor project: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/nightlight Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-24 Thread karl
= 'page']. and look at the submorphs of these pages bound to new. -- Yoshiki We get the environment tested thoroughly here and that is really good. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-23 Thread karl
just load all the projects and save the image with them loaded. You would have a giant image but switching would be quick. External projects is more a feature of etoys to make projects shareable and keep the image 'clean'. Karl In general what we would like to see is more animation

Re: [squeak-dev] to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-22 Thread karl
Congratulations ! I have not looked at the latest stuff yet, but it looked impressive a few weeks back :-) Karl Ties Stuij wrote: Well, it took us at OLE Nepal a whole lot of sweat and especially tears, but finally, after half a year of hard work, we finished the first build

Problems with Olpc-update and Joyride

2008-04-21 Thread karl
Olpc-update fails to load any updates for me in after Joyride-1872. It says there is no such update in updates.laptop.org. Anybody else experiencing this ? Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Benevolence and morale

2008-04-21 Thread karl
. Morgan I liked this picture from former OLPC worker Ivan Krstic' describing the startup process: http://radian.org/notebook/startup-process Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Etoys] how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread karl
hacking on Squeak level. But maybe not... /Ties __ A activity with Squeak would be nice, and even useful :-) It could just be the Etoy dev image with write permission. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: Face Detection and other Vision Processing (and some sample code)

2008-03-20 Thread karl
/~bert/camTrack.pr Have good lighting and a distinctly colored object. Pick the color from the object with the color picker and a yellow ellipse on screen will track relative how you move the object. This is just a demo , more to come later... Karl

Read Activity slowness

2008-03-01 Thread karl
?id=183397 Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Read Activity slowness

2008-03-01 Thread karl
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Mar 1, 2008, at 21:16 , karl wrote: I found extreme slowness issues with the Read activity on this document: http://vpri.org/pdf/steps_TR-2007-008.pdf The document will render but it is 'prohibitively slow' as one commenter put it. Another commenter

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-11 Thread Karl
on other platforms, but with Journal and the ZIP UI using a tiny font is is quite useless. Html rendering is not great, but works for basic simple html. What MIME type do you think it should not claim ? Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Where are the latest builds ?

2008-02-07 Thread karl
Latests builds directories (1657) contain just build logs that I think say the disk is full ? http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1657/devel_jffs2/ Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread karl
Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a fresh new Journal. Kind of what one do on a USB stick when one delete the .olpc.store file on it ? Or do I have to reflash the Nand ? Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread karl
Ivan Krstić wrote: On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:03 AM, karl wrote: Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a fresh new Journal. On builds 653 and later (G1G1 machines shipped with 650), you can open Terminal and do: $ echo /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Karl
to annotate the text, put in bookmarks, etc ? I find that the reader does not remember which page I was on last time I was reading. I'm using the latest stable image 653. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo