Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * More responsive UI - faster launch of activities Is the solution currently in joyride satisfactory for the August release? I use a recent Joyride on my G1G1. My average time to launch Browse (from the time I click

pyc files in activity startup time (was Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One low-hanging fruit for faster activity start is having activity install compile .pyc files, with (tiny) extra points if the .pyc gets hints to not use jffs2 compression. Hi Chema, do you know how much this could

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-15 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about the hot corners pop-up frame thingy, Nepal asked that be deprecated and I agree based

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Datastore upgrade Which are the requirements for the DataStore in the August release? I think it was proposed to focus on backups for August and address stability concerns that way. At this date and with all the

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
* More responsive UI - faster launch of activities Is the solution currently in joyride satisfactory for the August release? I use a recent Joyride on my G1G1. My average time to launch Browse (from the time I click in the F3 Activity Ring on the Browse icon, to the time when I can click

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Walter Bender
was that joyride or the faster build? -walter On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * More responsive UI - faster launch of activities Is the solution currently in joyride satisfactory for the August release? I use a recent Joyride on my G1G1. My

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
One low-hanging fruit for faster activity start is having activity install compile .pyc files, with (tiny) extra points if the .pyc gets hints to not use jffs2 compression. This is on my gameplan with the bundle format update stuff, but I have gotten stuck on the signatures (openssl cannot read

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
] Subject: Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release To: Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OLPC Developer's List devel@lists.laptop.org, Sugar Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 * New Sugar

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about the hot corners pop-up frame thingy, Nepal asked that be deprecated and I agree based on my personal experience and that of my kids. The only thing I have heard people use it for is the copy and

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
One low-hanging fruit for faster activity start is having activity install compile .pyc files There are .pyc files here and there in the XO core software. I do not expect to myself be changing Activity code -- but if the OLPC is supposed to be easy enough for a kid to program - *someone*

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Jim Gettys
Has Firefox 3- B5 landed in Joyride? it is much faster starting up than the FF3B2 we had in the older systems (not to mention immensely better on memory usage). - Jim On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 14:57 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Mikus

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Eben Eliason
Pentagram and myself have been putting effort into solidifying designs for Sugar Groups. In a first rendition, it shouldn't require much more than an extension of the invitation framework to support group invites, and a simple UI for creating a group. I think even without advanced features such

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
Is the solution currently in joyride satisfactory for the August release? Personally I think it's OK. It won't hurt to try to do better if we have time obviously... Let me clarify. I think activities launch is OK. Stuff like frame responsiveness and activity switch should be

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:00:32PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: I've often wanted the close-box to be in the Frame itself, so that there's a short and totally deterministic way to tell someone how to exit the current application. Providing an obvious close-button outside of the activity is a

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Schampijer
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about the hot corners pop-up frame thingy, Nepal asked that be deprecated and I agree based on my personal experience and that of my kids. The only thing I have heard people

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One low-hanging fruit for faster activity start is having activity install compile .pyc files There are .pyc files here and there in the XO core software. I do not expect to myself be changing Activity code -- but if

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: | One low-hanging fruit for faster activity start is having activity install | compile .pyc files, with (tiny) extra points if the .pyc gets hints to not | use jffs2 compression. This is on my gameplan with the bundle format