permanently changing keyboard layout for forth

2008-03-14 Thread Ties Stuij
I'm trying to permanently change my OFW keyboard layout from spanish to us. At the moment i can change the keyboard layout with: select keyboard set-keyboard ( which defaults to us ) and I guess I have to change the Keyboard ascii map (KA) value in the spi with values called or used by

who sets SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT?

2008-03-14 Thread Victor Lazzarini
I am trying to work out how to access the correct directories for writing and I see that SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT is supposedly where to look. However is it up to the activity to set this variable? I see that the terminal has it set correctly and I would have thought that when sugar launches an

permanently changing keyboard layout for forth

2008-03-14 Thread Ties Stuij
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:12 PM Subject: Re: permanently changing keyboard layout for forth To: Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are

Project name : Speak is set up

2008-03-14 Thread Henry Hardy
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:54:06 -0800, Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Speak Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/speak Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if

Project name : View Slides Activity is set up

2008-03-14 Thread Henry Hardy
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:30:00 -0500, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : View Slides Activity Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/view-slides Please follow instructions here for importing your project:

lbgnomevfs warning

2008-03-14 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Hi all, on launching an activity, say a bare one with just the activity toolbox and nothing else, I get these warnings in the log libgnomvfs-WARNING **: unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory ... I realise this must be related to the security model and acitivities cannot write to /home/olpc. But

Re: lbgnomevfs warning

2008-03-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, on launching an activity, say a bare one with just the activity toolbox and nothing else, I get these warnings in the log libgnomvfs-WARNING **: unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory ... I realise this

Re: who sets SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT?

2008-03-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to work out how to access the correct directories for writing and I see that SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT is supposedly where to look. However is it up to the activity to set this variable? I see that the

Re: who sets SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT?

2008-03-14 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Not to worry, I can access the path using activity.get_activity_root(), as pointed out by Simon, so I am OK. Thanks At 12:59 14/03/2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to work out how to access the correct

Re: New update.1 build 699

2008-03-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Chris answered: what does inhibit-idle-suspend do? It allows you to disable automatic idle suspend while keeping enabled the explicit suspend on power button press or lid close. Previously, there was only the inhibit-suspend file that inhibits both of the above. I no longer have 699 on

Re: OLPC Usability Testing Class Project (Frederick Grose)

2008-03-14 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Frederik, I'm trying to find the right interface to gather input directly from teachers and encourage an exchange on requirements definition between real XO users and developers. I wrote up a brief explanation and test subject on your wiki page. Let me know if you have any questions and if

Project name : csndsugui is set up

2008-03-14 Thread Henry Hardy
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:28:18 +, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : csndsugui Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/csndsugui Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project

Update.1 activities download script

2008-03-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Hi Scott, and all, I made a script that downloads and installs or upgrades the official activities for Update.1 from the repository at: http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.update1/XOS/Dictionary-1.xo The script is available at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py and it makes

Re: Update.1 activities download script

2008-03-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Mar 14, 2008, at 17:15 , Bert Freudenberg wrote: Hi Scott, and all, I made a script that downloads and installs or upgrades the official activities for Update.1 from the repository at: http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.update1/XOS/Dictionary-1.xo I meant

memorize (drumgit game) broken

2008-03-14 Thread Victor Lazzarini
I've tested memorize now under 5.07 (the old RPM) and joyride-1765 (latest?) and I can confirm it does not play any sound. Csound fails to find the ogg file (no filename is actually passed to it). The log says the opcode failed to open the file and I traced it to an empty string being passed

Google is now IPv6-reachable --- almost.

2008-03-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
It's a step in the right direction, at least: http://ipv6.google.com They really need to install records for google.com, but we're getting there. Maybe someday we'll actually have IPv6 routability between all XOs. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ )

Re: memorize (drumgit game) broken

2008-03-14 Thread Simon Schampijer
Victor Lazzarini wrote: I've tested memorize now under 5.07 (the old RPM) and joyride-1765 (latest?) and I can confirm it does not play any sound. Csound fails to find the ogg file (no filename is actually passed to it). The log says the opcode failed to open the file and I traced it to an

Re: memorize (drumgit game) broken

2008-03-14 Thread victor
It appears to me that the Python code is not passing the filename to csound. If I knew in which file that bit of code is, I could look. Also looking at csound code for doing that bit, I think I could simplify it somewhat. There are repeated calls to compile() that seem avoidable (you probably need

Re: Google is now IPv6-reachable --- almost.

2008-03-14 Thread John Watlington
The night the IETF turned off IPv4 http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/ietf-ipv6-switchoff.ars On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:42 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: It's a step in the right direction, at least: http://ipv6.google.com They really need to install records for google.com, but we're

Re: Update.1 activities download script

2008-03-14 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, Another great program to use to install .xo bundles. is 'xo-get'. Has both a console/terminal and Sugar/GUI interface. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get Currently under going testing, but pretty darn close with only a handful of 'un-documented features left'. :-) -iXo p.s

Re: Update.1 activities download script

2008-03-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Mar 2008, at 00:34, Ixo X oxI wrote: Another great program to use to install .xo bundles. is 'xo- get'. Has both a console/terminal and Sugar/GUI interface. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get Currently under going testing, but pretty darn close with only a handful of

New joyride build 1770

2008-03-14 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1770 Changes in build 1770 from build: 1765 Size delta: 0.00M -Pippy 19 +Pippy 20 --- Changes for Pippy 20 from 19 --- + Give a friendly error message if the audio library isn't found. + Look for the audio library in /home as well

New faster build 1770

2008-03-14 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1770 Changes in build 1770 from build: 1766 Size delta: 0.00M -Pippy 19 +Pippy 20 --- Changes for Pippy 20 from 19 --- + Give a friendly error message if the audio library isn't found. + Look for the audio library in /home as well

Code For A Case: OLPC Hackathon

2008-03-14 Thread David Hodge
Hello, My name is David Hodge. I'm the treasurer of University of Southern California Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of Free Culture USC. These two groups are partnering on upcoming event that I thought you might want to know about. In about a month we are going to have a

New bible reading activity

2008-03-14 Thread Daryl Daly
Hi, This is a very simple reader for bible and other text modules made for the Sword project at www.crosswire.org It is version 1 quality and is my first Sugar project. I welcome any comments and suggestions. There are many things that need to be added to it for it to become very useful.