XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a proxy. My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. The principal user-perception experience where improvement would still be welcome is video support. Changes to the screen (e.g., show/hide Frame) are not being done

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:44, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a proxy.  My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. The principal user-perception experience where improvement would still be welcome is video support.

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 17:52, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:44, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a proxy.  My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. The principal

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a proxy. I don't quite understand this statement. Were you connected to the XO-1.5 over the internet, using a technique like X forwarding or VNC? The principal user-perception experience where

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Samuel Klein
Some more comments from recent use and demos of my 1.5 w/ os32, some of which I'll put into trac. 1) Twice in half an hour I was able to get Sugar to stop redrawing when, while it had 5-6 activities open, someone hovered over the XO on the desktop to pull up the config menu. The menu would open,

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
My experience with the XO-1.5 has been much better: 4) Both Browse and Firefox on Gnome don't load certain popular sites (see below). I don't go to Gnome - I run both Browse and Firefox under Sugar. Neither Browse nor Firefox had any trouble whatsoever with either of those sites (Skype,

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: My experience with the XO-1.5 has been much better: [...] snip! 2) Infoslicer always claimed it couldn't reach the network Did not run Infoslicer when away from home - so haven't tried it. I heard this was a known issue - the Wikipedia folks changed apparently some