Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-22 Thread John Gilmore
The second thing is basic UI usability. The pop-around menu border makes the UI thoroughly unusable with the trackpad http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4910 covers this issue and more. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

New joyride build 1790

2008-03-22 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1790 Changes in build 1790 from build: 1789 Size delta: -0.14M -kbd 1.12-23.olpc2 +kbd 1.12-24.olpc2 -olpc-utils 0.70-1.olpc2 +olpc-utils 0.71-1.olpc2 --- Changes for kbd 1.12-24.olpc2 from 1.12-23.olpc2 --- + get the proper files.

New faster build 1790

2008-03-22 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1790 Changes in build 1790 from build: 1789 Size delta: 0.00M -kbd 1.12-23.olpc2 +kbd 1.12-24.olpc2 -olpc-utils 0.70-1.olpc2 +olpc-utils 0.71-1.olpc2 --- Changes for kbd 1.12-24.olpc2 from 1.12-23.olpc2 --- + get the proper files. a

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!

2008-03-22 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
John Gilmore gnu at toad.com writes: The second thing is basic UI usability. The pop-around menu border makes the UI thoroughly unusable with the trackpad http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4910 covers this issue and more. Yeah there's an awful lot in your ticket and I didn't notice it

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!

2008-03-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:32 AM, John R. Hogerhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on observing my daughter, it's not much of an issue with a USB mouse. But that's not the usual mode she works with the laptop. She pulls it off her shelf and sits on the couch with it on her lap. A mouse

Mini-Conference Proposal: desktop applications

2008-03-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Sugar breaks with the standard desktop metaphor by design and doing so it introduces incompatibilities at several levels. The barrier between activities and standard applications proved to be a critical problem in practice. Fortunately most of the current code base is using GNOME and freedesktop

Re: #5841 BLOC Update.: es.map is broken for XO keyboards

2008-03-22 Thread Walter Bender
I'll investigate. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Zarro Boogs per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #5841: es.map is broken for XO keyboards +--- Reporter: walter | Owner: bernie Type: defect |

Re: Interest in GSOC 2008

2008-03-22 Thread Assim Deodia
Hi All, I have been working on Speech Synthesis for past few months starting from Summer of Content. I wish to undertake the Listen and Spell project for Google summer of code. Listen and Spell would be a self voicing activity that would help children to learn new words, improve spellings and

Another Summer of Code project - VideoEdit

2008-03-22 Thread Roberto Fagá
Hello list! Following all students new threads, I'm starting this to discuss anything about my proposal for Summer of Code. To tell a bit about me, my user profile could say much more [1]. I'm also starting my Mastering in Ubiquitous Computing [2], capture and access, in watch-and-comment

Re: 1789 - sugar does not boot

2008-03-22 Thread Michael Stone
Mikus, Thanks for the experience report. Have you tried holding the '✓' (check) gamepad key in order to disable pretty-boot? Joyride is definitely not supposed to be broken, but it's hard to tell what to revert without better knowledge of what's actually failing. Examining

Re: Confusing build names.

2008-03-22 Thread Michael Stone
Aaron, I apologize that I was unable to reply promptly to your second question. Indeed, while builds are authoritatively named as I described in my previous email, many people frequently leave off the stream name because it can usually be inferred from contextual or circumstantial evidence. As

Re: 1789 - sugar does not boot (1788 and 1790 either)

2008-03-22 Thread Mark Bauer
I also have had issues with builds 1788 and 1790. These would also not boot. I resorted back to 1784 to get it to boot. With 1788 it looked like it was locked up, but the power button still puts it in suspend and brings it out again. Ctl alt F1 to get to another screen did nothing until

OLPC News (2008-03-22)

2008-03-22 Thread Walter Bender
1. Deployment: Walter Bender visited the technology support team for the NYC public schools to discuss issues of connectivity and security in regard to a pending pilot. John Watlington and Martin Langhoff will make a follow-up visit this coming week. Walter also had a follow-up meeting with

UI usability for 4 year old (was Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!)

2008-03-22 Thread John R . Hogerhuis
Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com writes: I have not seen a good analysis of the frame problem yet. For example I know that at some point the trackpad jumped to the corners very often, and that obviously aggravated it. Also in my experience the thing is nowhere so annoying on my

Announcement : New mailing list for Summer of Code [OLPC GSoC]

2008-03-22 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello, We have a new mailing list set up for summer of code participants. Please join if you are interested in applying to be a mentor, contributing or reviewing project ideas, applying as a student, or otherwise contributing to the process. http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc Mentor

Update wiki with info of GSoC mailing list

2008-03-22 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
Hello, I wanted to update this wiki page : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Communication_channels with the details of recently formed GSoC mailing list. But, the page is protected. So, I have put the list info on discussion page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Communication_channels Regards, --

Re: Another Summer of Code project - VideoEdit

2008-03-22 Thread Robert Ochshorn
I started working on a video editing activity for the XO a couple of months ago, and have been developing a backend in python based on the excellent GNonLin [1] GStreamer framework. I too have a wiki page [2] for the project, and am hoping within the next few weeks to have some code/prototypes

Re: Nortel LearniT animations (Seth Woodworth)

2008-03-22 Thread Bryan Berry
Seth Woodworth Wrote: Holy Crap! That's amazing. We need this *on* the laptops. Curse you flash! Does it work alright in gnash? Or should we transcode it? There are a lot of great education activities done in Flash and their # will only increase simply because it is very easy to develop

Re: Maintaining Activity Packs

2008-03-22 Thread Kim Quirk
Michael, It seems like recording the compatibility matrix between builds and activities alone is a 2-3 person job in the very near future. Today it is probably a full time QA person -- and we are short about 3 QA people right now. It would be great to get some feedback as to how this can be

Core Activities - Bundled Packs discussion

2008-03-22 Thread Ixo X oxI
Michael, I took some of your thoughts... and the 'global' problem of no activities shipped with XOs. ... ran with it a bit further. . . . :-) Thinking along the lines, the set of 'recommended' activities per deployment location are being discussed informally, without much tracking or

Re: UI usability for 4 year old (was Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!)

2008-03-22 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Sunday 23 March 2008 3:59:31 am John R.Hogerhuis wrote: .. (actually it's not all that pleasant for me either given the button placement below the trackpad). Something modal or pressure based would be better. If a key on the keyboard held down were the up/down button that would be

Re: [Server-devel] New architect and roadmap - and phone conference

2008-03-22 Thread Marten Vijn
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 19:23 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Hi all! snip Or Skype itself to place a call to the US. ] that worked techically fine last repaircenter meeting For me no us_navite speaker: - following the meeting is oke, - participating is harder than irc - irc backchannel

Re: [Server-devel] Web-based Management Interface for the XS

2008-03-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:52 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHP security is viewed as less than acceptable for interfaces accessible from the open Internet. Excellent point. Should the configuration interface should also be available on the WAN interface ? My opinion is