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: Stop Button not working for my application

2009-01-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/1/6 shivaprasad javali jbs...@gmail.com: Hi, I have ported my application running on Linux to the XO. The application runs alright but when I click on the stop button( The one provided by sugar and not the one present in my application) the application doesn't shutdown like other

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

2009-01-07 Thread Ixo X oxI
Note: I olpc-update to staging-9 . So far works great. able to find my favorite marked access point, after two reboots. Seem to work better/faster that staging-7 (or speed could be my imagination? :) However, found a 'bug/typo' in Browse / Library file

File bugs, don't fix 'em.

2009-01-07 Thread John Gilmore
genesee wrote: before the mesh search cycle is done, the 'looking for a mesh' keeps blinking forever while my wifi is solid. If I let the mesh search run it's course, (while I'm doing something else ...it takes a few minutes), then there's just my solid wifi circle in my frame. That

Re: March date realistic ?

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: There's about 35 normal workdays between the end of XOCamp and the proposed date for factory-release. As a mere sampling of the distance that ought to be covered, I'm listing a dozen regressions (things that worked in 767

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: [Sugar-devel] p2p stream tubes

2009-01-07 Thread Bert Freudenberg
(cc'ing olpc) On 07.01.2009, at 12:42, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 12:22 +0100, Bert Freudenberg a écrit : On 07.01.2009, at 12:13, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Hi guys, I released telepathy-gabble 0.7.18 yesterday which implements a long-awaited feature: peer

Why olpc user is locked?

2009-01-07 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Hi everyone, I was wondering, why olpc user account is locked when creating it? The thing is I would like to give access to a console in Uruguay's customized build, as root is password protected. We need that so the kids/teachers could do some basic maintenance if anything fails when booting

Re: [Server-devel] Presence Server

2009-01-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hola Carlos! 2009/1/5 Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio cdisa...@gmail.com: What changes need to be made on the XO side and on the XS side in order for this to work. So far i installed the idmgr on the XS and changed the line It should work out-of-the-box, no special configuration needed. - what

Re: Customized images

2009-01-07 Thread Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio
Send to china Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio::ConTi Ingeniero Electronico Proyecto Todos @l Computador Celular (57) 300 814 9308 Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Manizales GNU/Linux Registered User #465475 eSSuX - Usuarios y Desarrolladores GNU/Linux UNAL Manizales On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at

Boston address to take delivery on a Dell?

2009-01-07 Thread Jameson Quinn
Sorry to bother the list, but I have to buy a new laptop during XOCamp (old one finally went totally belly-up). I was thinking of getting a $600 Dell with Ubuntu. Can anybody give me a mailing address where they could take delivery on such a machine? Please include the reason why I can trust that

Re: File bugs, don't fix 'em.

2009-01-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
I don't know why I'm discussing this here, but anyway. If someone is giving as much as it's in his hands and even then it's not enough but that guy chooses to keep going instead of jumping ship, is it fair to throw shit at him for not being able to give more? Even more when you probably have no

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:47:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: I don't believe that is true at all. I believe XFCE is an install option during a full install and there's a fully Fedora blessed XFCE spin available from Fedora here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ . It

Re: March date realistic ?

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Please use reply-to-all On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Please ensure there are tickets filed for all of these. All except the first 2 are news to me Yes, all but one have tickets. The one that doesn't is GUI for accessing removable storage content -- I

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-07 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:47:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: One thing, we try not to do, is deviate from upstream and apply many patches like some of the other Xfce based spin-off's do which is a general Fedora policy as well and not something specific to the Xfce team. The patches

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: March date realistic ?

2009-01-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 18:16, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Please use reply-to-all On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Please ensure there are tickets filed for all of these. All except the first 2 are news to me Yes, all but one have tickets. The

Re: File bugs, don't fix 'em.

2009-01-07 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:48 AM, John Gilmore wrote: genesee wrote: before the mesh search cycle is done, the 'looking for a mesh' keeps blinking forever while my wifi is solid. If I let the mesh search run it's course, (while I'm doing something else ...it takes a few minutes), then

New joyride build 2616

2009-01-07 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2616 Changes in build 2616 from build: 2615 Size delta: 0.00M -db4 4.7.25-6.fc10 +db4 4.7.25-7.fc10 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See

New joyride build 2616

2009-01-07 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2616 Changes in build 2616 from build: 2615 Size delta: 0.00M -db4 4.7.25-6.fc10 +db4 4.7.25-7.fc10 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See

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

New joyride build 2617

2009-01-07 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2617 Changes in build 2617 from build: 2616 Size delta: 0.00M -glibc 2.9-3 +glibc 2.9-4 -glibc-common 2.9-3 +glibc-common 2.9-4 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Erik Garrison wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:47:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: One thing, we try not to do, is deviate from upstream and apply many patches like some of the other Xfce based spin-off's do which is a general Fedora policy as well and not something specific to the Xfce

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

Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC

2009-01-07 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html and all the other blogs (engadget, gizmodo, pc world, ...). It does not look very good

Re: File bugs, don't fix 'em.

2009-01-07 Thread genesee
Whoa, now! I didn't mean to open a can of worms... I searched Trac quite a while ago about this and was only reminded by Mikus' post and foolishly decided to add my 2 cents worth. See what happens when I reply? The 'official' Forum would be a better venue for my input if there was more activity

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-07 Thread Philipp Kocher
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 18.12.2008, at 08:08, Philipp Kocher wrote: One more thing, the scratch icon is not shown in the journal for files with the scratch mimetype. I think the file /usr/share/sugar/data/mime.defaults has to be adapted to include the scratch-mimetype. It just has to

Re: Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC

2009-01-07 Thread genesee
the unemployment lines. Glad I did G1G1 in 2007, ain't no way I could afford it this time around. Ton van Overbeek wrote: Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff

Re: Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC

2009-01-07 Thread david
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html and all the other blogs (engadget

for those recently laid off...

2009-01-07 Thread Albert Cahalan
In case any low-level hackers are included in the layoffs, note that my employer can hire a good number of them. (if US citizen) In case you know somebody appropriate who no longer reads devel, please let him know. People might unsubscribe when laid off, or might have been subscribed via a