Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla?

2009-01-04 Thread John Gilmore
The main problem [with gnash on OLPC] I've had so far is getting the Gstreamer Ugly plugins set (non-FOSS plugins, including the MP3 decoder) installed properly on XO 8.2.0 via Yum because the Gstreamer in 8.2.0's repository is some kind of mishmash from the older Fedora 8 version, not the

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla?

2009-01-04 Thread Peter Robinson
The main problem [with gnash on OLPC] I've had so far is getting the Gstreamer Ugly plugins set (non-FOSS plugins, including the MP3 decoder) installed properly on XO 8.2.0 via Yum because the Gstreamer in 8.2.0's repository is some kind of mishmash from the older Fedora 8 version, not the

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla?

2009-01-04 Thread Albert Cahalan
Peter Robinson writes: I've found it very cpu intensive on Fedora 9 and 10 with a penryn dual core processor. It basically pins one of the cores to 100% CPU That could be good. 70% would be more worrisome, because we'd have to assume the CPU was really doing the rendering. At 100%, it becomes

Re: DebXO 0.4 stable enough to travel with

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: I perhaps foolishly brought an XO running debXO-0.4 as my sole laptop during a multiweek European trip. Midway thru that trip, I am pleased to report that it is stable enough for reasonable use, at least in my application

DebXO 0.4 stable enough to travel with

2009-01-04 Thread John Gilmore
I perhaps foolishly brought an XO running debXO-0.4 as my sole laptop during a multiweek European trip. Midway thru that trip, I am pleased to report that it is stable enough for reasonable use, at least in my application (ssh, web, and random downloads of pdf's, mp3's, ogg videos, etc). See

Re: New Browse ready for Emilianio?

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Dec 2008, at 16:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hi Greg, It has not passed through formal QA (yet), but there is a test case on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9112 I tried it out on 767, and it seems to work fine. I did not test on 656. The bundle can be downloaded from

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jan 2009, at 16:09, Brian Pepple wrote: Hi All, A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has passed an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing. The build download and problem reporting instructions are here:

what are the deployments' languages?

2009-01-04 Thread S Page
I'm trying to figure out the actual languages in use in deployments by looking at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments , but several countries have a blank for Language. What are the actual primary languages in use on * Haiti's 13,000 laptops (Kreyol ?) * Afghanistan's 11,000 laptops (Pashto ?

Re: what are the deployments' languages?

2009-01-04 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi, On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:39 PM, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote: I'm trying to figure out the actual languages in use in deployments by looking at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments , but several countries have a blank for Language. What are the actual primary languages in use on *

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Here's my Activity specific testing run through of all the activities as currently installed by Activities/G1G1 What's required to get your activity listed here? WikipediaEN-4 . . - . * . . x x Very slow

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 04.01.2009, at 20:26, Gary C Martin wrote: build 8.2.1-7 Could start . = success | Could stop (all must work ctrl-q, alt-esc, toolbar, frame) - = N/A | | Sound x = fail | | | Journal entry ? = unknown | | | | Useful journal resume state * = see note

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jan 2009, at 20:28, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 04.01.2009, at 20:26, Gary C Martin wrote: build 8.2.1-7 Could start . = success | Could stop (all must work ctrl-q, alt-esc, toolbar, frame) - = N/A | | Sound x = fail | | | Journal entry ? = unknown |

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jan 2009, at 20:15, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Here's my Activity specific testing run through of all the activities as currently installed by Activities/G1G1 What's required to get your activity listed here? If

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Gary wrote: Browse-98 . . . . . . . x x Browse-101 needed for 8.2.1 PDF support I Tested Browse-101 using the staging-7 build: - Browse-101 listed on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 (i.e., http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/0.83/Browse-101.xo) is unacceptable to me

Autosaving (was Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1)

2009-01-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
[trimming distribution list] On 04.01.2009, at 22:21, Gary C Martin wrote: On 4 Jan 2009, at 20:28, Bert Freudenberg wrote: This is no different than in 8.2.0 - assuming you just launched and immediately exited Etoys we do no longer create a useless Journal entry. Only if you make a new

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jan 2009, at 23:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Gary wrote: Browse-98 . . . . . . . x x Browse-101 needed for 8.2.1 PDF support I Tested Browse-101 using the staging-7 build: - Browse-101 listed on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 (i.e.,

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Here's a short code tour for your enjoyment. Thank you very much, Michael. This is very helpful. Would it be possible for you (or someone else) to similarly enumerate the conditions under which 'anonymous gray activity circles' are made to disappear ? I don't have difficulty with gray

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey Michael, Did you try applying Sayamindu's patch from the previous email (and did you see the associated screenshot)? I'm surprised it hasn't been cleaned up and pushed by the Sugar dev team by now. -Wade On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Jan

Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
BTW, this activity is a perfect example of what I was talking about with my 'web-activity' and sugar.activity.activity.WebActivity class proposals. You want a way to install it to the home screen, give it an icon, and have it launch seamlessly just like any other activity. As it is, I spent some

Re: Wine activity

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
Has anyone considered doing a scan of download.com and similar sites for small, free educational software for Windows, and then bundling them with this Wine activity? I'm the author of CueCard, which is a flash card training program for Windows. I have tested and it works great under Vincent's

Ticket #7785

2009-01-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I just re-encountered the problem on 8.2.1. Briefly: - There is an existing connection (in my case, ethernet). - That connection gets broken (e.g., by clicking another access) - The replacement access does not connect - Connecting as before is attempted, but with unusable parameters

Re: Wine activity

2009-01-04 Thread Vincent Povirk
I'd prefer to avoid bundling in general because it adds to the disk space requirement. I can justify 7-zip and Firefox because they tend to be needed for doing anything useful. If there's a useful program that works very well on an XO running the Wine activity and has no native sugar equivalent,

Re: New joyride build 2613 from build 762

2009-01-04 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, Just an hour ago (Jan 4th 2008), I upgraded one of my XOs to the latest Joyride. FROM: build-762 TO: joyride 2613 METHOD: (as root) $ olpc-udate joyride-2613 NOTES: 1) During bootup, lots of messages from JFFS2. (Errors show also under 762, so probably a bigger issue

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, Downloading 8.2.1 (staging-7) now on an XO currently running with 8.2 (build 767) . Will report on anything out of the ordinary when I play with it tomorrow. :) -iXo On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 08:09, Brian Pepple bpep...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: Hi All, A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is