RE: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-08-02 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 13:10 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote: Hi everyone, I'm perfectly willing to do this work but how I can be sure it will actually be used? What do we need to do to get libabiword updated? sugar-jhbuild uses an ancient patched tree dating from November last

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-08-02 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 16:47 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote: What version is actually being shipped with sucrose? What do we need to do to get it updated? Someone should just update jhbuild... i could do that when i find some spare time and motivaten; feel free to beat me to it. Updated

RE: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Sevior
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:12 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:37 +1000, Martin Edmund Sevior wrote: Thanks Tomeu and Eben. Yes, we'll need to expand the abiwidget api. I'll look to do this if I can can get sugar-jhbuild to work again. That, or we could just add an

RE: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Edmund Sevior
-Original Message- From: Eben Eliason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 2:29 AM To: Tomeu Vizoso Cc: Martin Edmund Sevior; Walter Bender; OLPC Development; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chris Ball; Sugar Mailing List Subject: Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO On Wed

RE: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-31 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:37 +1000, Martin Edmund Sevior wrote: Thanks Tomeu and Eben. Yes, we'll need to expand the abiwidget api. I'll look to do this if I can can get sugar-jhbuild to work again. That, or we could just add an 'EditMethod', so we can invoke it using a 'well known' function

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:50 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what text highlighting, SJ and I have

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-30 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:50 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: The open source project Gobby

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-29 Thread Martin Sevior
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:50 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what text highlighting, SJ and I have recently (right before he left for Wikimania) been looking into getting similar

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:41 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sevior wrote: | Hi Folks, | Just so you know. The only reason for #7447 is because we | haven't put the UI in to enable it. I would like an additional control for

Re: Write needs your help (was Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 10:16 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc is a bit of a perfectionist so I'm not sure how usable 95% of the work is and whether it could be finished by simply using it and providing bug reports as

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-19 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.M. Maurer wrote: | Have you used Gobby? It's the shared editor that people at OLPC | _actually_ use, and having per-user background colors is among its key | features. | | Not sure if I read this correctly, but are you implying that Write's |

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 18:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.M. Maurer wrote: | Have you used Gobby? It's the shared editor that people at OLPC | _actually_ use, and having per-user background colors is among its key | features. | | Not

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Bobby Powers
Hello Martin - On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Samuel, Marc Maurer has done 95% of the work required to do multi-programming language syntax highlighting in libabiword. The advantage of using libabiword is that you get collaboration for

Write needs your help (was Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc is a bit of a perfectionist so I'm not sure how usable 95% of the work is and whether it could be finished by simply using it and providing bug reports as needed would be. Is this something the community could help

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Ball wrote: | Another useful feature would be for | Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby does. | I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on. See also #7447. Currently, Write doesn't

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many other high-priority things to be working on. Is there really a lot of demand for this from the field? -walter On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M.

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Martin Sevior
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:45 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many other high-priority things to be working on. Is there really a lot of demand for this from the field?

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sevior wrote: | Hi Folks, | Just so you know. The only reason for #7447 is because we | haven't put the UI in to enable it. I would like an additional control for background color. Eben, what do you think? | I'm not sure different

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jul 2008, at 02:25, Martin Sevior wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Ball wrote: | Another useful feature would be for | Write to have unique background colors for collaborators,

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:45 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many other high-priority things to be

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Martin Sevior
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 02:53 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 18 Jul 2008, at 02:25, Martin Sevior wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Ball wrote: | Another useful feature would be

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Martin Sevior
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:54 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:45 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple development environments in Pippy at

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Brian Jordan
The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what text highlighting, SJ and I have recently (right before he left for Wikimania) been looking into getting similar functionality on the XO. Having this highlighting integrated with Write would be fantastic. Brian On Thu, Jul 17,

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Martin Sevior
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what text highlighting, SJ and I have recently (right before he left for Wikimania) been looking into getting similar functionality on the XO. Having this highlighting

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-16 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Samuel, Marc Maurer has done 95% of the work required to do multi-programming language syntax highlighting in libabiword. The advantage of using libabiword is that you get collaboration for free. It is easy enough to embed this in your own canvas and hook up the controls you need or