Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for plain G1G1. That's exactly as it is supposed to work. G1G1 lists dev versions, G1G1/8.2 the stable versions tested with 8.2. I did say 'o.k.' to this explanation

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: WHERE are they supposed to look to determine whether a newer version of an Activity is available for their (e.g., 657) builds ? [Their builds are __older__ than 8.2.] Unfortunately, we do not have any page set up for this,

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread S Page
Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: WHERE are they supposed to look to determine whether a newer version of an Activity is available for their (e.g., 657) builds ? [Their builds are __older__ than 8.2.] For 8.1,

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 10.01.2009, at 12:53, S Page wrote: If the activity developer has somehow learned how to update activity versions (again I ask *is this documented anywhere?!*) The canonical documentation AFAIK is the update_url section of the .info file in bundles:

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-09 Thread S Page
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for plain G1G1. That's exactly as it is supposed to work. G1G1 lists dev versions, G1G1/8.2 the stable versions tested with 8.2.

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-07 Thread Ixo X oxI
I second... on the idea of checking for network, before putting up the 'software update' dialog box. It certainly annoys me to no end, when my network needs a manual key and the dialog box covers over the network view so I can't connect to my access point. Or even another idea, is not showing

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: The software update facility assumes that a connection to the network is already available when it gets to run. If conditions are such that the network connection has *not* been set up when booting completes, should the

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The software update facility assumes that a connection to the network is already available when it gets to run. If conditions are such that the network connection has *not* been set up when booting completes, should the action bar to request software update still be automatically presented

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-07 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 07.01.2009, at 18:31, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for plain G1G1. That's exactly as it is supposed to work. G1G1 lists dev versions, G1G1/8.2 the stable versions tested with

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for plain G1G1. That's exactly as it is supposed to work. G1G1 lists dev versions, G1G1/8.2 the stable versions tested with 8.2. o.k. My intuitive thinking (from the

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-06 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Visited a friend, and helped him install a new build in his XO. The first time the new build completed booting, he was presented with an action bar (to request software update) near the top of Home View. It so happened

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-06 Thread genesee
If your friend had waited, (while the xo first looks for a mesh, three times, then connects wifi), then hits 'try again' the updater would work. Is there a way to set the default for what the xo looks for to connect with on start up? After booting, if I go in Neighborhood view and select my

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-06 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM, genesee genesee@gmail.com wrote: If your friend had waited, (while the xo first looks for a mesh, three times, then connects wifi), then hits 'try again' the updater would work. Is there a way to set the default for what the xo looks for to connect with on

automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2008-12-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Visited a friend, and helped him install a new build in his XO. The first time the new build completed booting, he was presented with an action bar (to request software update) near the top of Home View. It so happened that the XO had not automatically connected to my friend's wireless AP -