Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Philipp Kocher
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 04:50, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: 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

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[adding sugar-devel to the cc list] On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:42, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 04:50, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 18.12.2008, at 08:08, Philipp Kocher wrote: One

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-12 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom management tools. Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the ability to

Re: [Server-devel] XS L10n

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiousity. Are the UI strings in the XS builds beginning to stabilize to the point that it might make sense to create a POT file for the localization community to start working on? (Chris - your

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open files with the mime type 'application/x-scratch-project'. But this will not affect the icon of those files. Is there a way to assign icons for files other than by saving it in an

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open files with the mime type 'application/x-scratch-project'. But this will not affect the icon of those

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Eben Eliason
This is something I've briefly discussed with Marco in the past. It seems a natural extension of the idea of objects as first class citizens of Sugar to allow those objects to have custom icons and identities. Right now, we have no such support. The most natural way (at least for me, as a Mac

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open files with the mime type

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:16, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38,

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the Journal (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather than the generic document icon? Shipping a mimetypes.xml file inside the bundle as explained here:

XOCamp 2, Day 1 update

2009-01-12 Thread Samuel Klein
Dear all, We're in the middle of day 1 of XOCamp. You can take part in a few ways; we are * streaming over the web at justin.tv (search for xocamp and olpc), * on an call-in conference line (see the wiki page for details) * on IRC in the #olpc channel on freenode.net. For those without irc

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:50, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the Journal (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather than the generic document

About to start talking with Ed about QA - join on IRC, review notes, etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Mel Chua
About to have Big Conversation with Ed about Community QA moving forward, and I think I've finished my Big Braindump at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2#QA - review appreciated! The IRC backchannel is #olpc in case you want to join in, I'll try to get someone to transcribe since I'll likely

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 19:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: And I just checked and it does work with Etoys projects. When downloading one it indeed gets an etoys icon (although at a smaller size - why is that?) No idea, though I

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Garrison
Here is an image builder which makes Fedora 10-based desktop images for the XO. They use XFCE. Currently there is at least one outstanding bug, which is that network manager applet won't start because of security configuration problems with consolekit. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/erik/rpmxo

QA talk with Ed postponed to 15:30EST (42 minutes from now)

2009-01-12 Thread Mel Chua
This just in: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2#QA is slated for 42 minutes from now, at 3:30pm EST. It will be 45 minutes; the double whammy of keep meetings on track skillz of Ed and Mel will make sure of that. ;) Please join us! #olpc, agenda at the link above; add questions, etc. - and

Nand blaster with 30 XOs

2009-01-12 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Mitch, Nandblaster is a blast! We updated 29 XOs in less than 30 minutes (most in less than 20 minutes). Just one XO froze (two times), but this unit seems problematic anyway. I am attaching the stats for the other 28. There is a minor caveat (that is not actually related to the nandblaster):

Re: Nand blaster with 30 XOs

2009-01-12 Thread pgf
ricardo wrote: Mitch, Nandblaster is a blast! We updated 29 XOs in less than 30 minutes (most in less than 20 minutes). neat. Just one XO froze (two times), but this unit seems problematic anyway. I am attaching the stats for the other 28. There is a minor caveat (that is not

Re: [Server-devel] XS L10n

2009-01-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiousity. Are the UI strings in the XS builds beginning to stabilize to the point that it might make sense to

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-12 Thread Carlos Nazareno
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php Coolness! Can someone wikify all these software solutions discussed in the thread? We should make a resource list of all these things. I'd like to, but I'm catching

Re: goodbye olpc (jobs available)

2009-01-12 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
I'm sorry to see some familiar names gone from this list. My G1G1 XO is sad today. But hopefully a brighter for those recently laid off: my company, GenArts, is also hiring. We make high-end special effects software for movies and TV (www.genarts.com). We are between Central and Harvard

Re: Nand blaster with 30 XOs

2009-01-12 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi Paul, Just one XO froze (two times), but this unit seems problematic anyway. I am attaching the stats for the other 28. There is a minor caveat (that is not actually related to the nandblaster): Once you finish updating the XO that will be replicated it woud be useful to put

What keeps me going...

2009-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
So, a lot of people have been asking me this lately in the OLPC context. What keeps you going? Of course, this question has been asked by different people with different intentions. Some are genuinely surprised that I have so much free time, while others suspect a hidden treasure. So, I decided to

Sad to see some folks leaving: jobs available

2009-01-12 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
I'm sorry to see some familiar names gone from this list. My G1G1 XO is sad today. But hopefully a brighter for those recently laid off: my company, GenArts, is also hiring. We make high-end special effects software for movies and TV (www.genarts.com). We are between Central and Harvard

Re: What keeps me going...

2009-01-12 Thread quozl
+1 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:15 AM, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote: Carlos Nazareno wrote: - I'd also like to see more work done on a method to easily bundle Gnash or HTML-based/Browser applications as stand-alone activities, or at least launch the browser with the wrapped activity loaded upon

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-12 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Montag, den 12.01.2009, 14:41 -0500 schrieb Erik Garrison: Here is an image builder which makes Fedora 10-based desktop images for the XO. They use XFCE. Currently there is at least one outstanding bug, which is that network manager applet won't start because of security configuration

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread S Page
Sameer Verma wrote: E.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry -- why bother with crappy static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available? And you can View Source it! This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!!! This is definitely going down in

Re: Nand blaster with 30 XOs

2009-01-12 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:57:04PM -0500, Ian Daniher wrote: Something which would be nice to have is a publically accessible webroot with a clean os767 build, chown -R'ed 444(read-only for all) There's this: rsync rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-767/root/ Not web, and not 444, but useful

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread Carlos Nazareno
the people with skills to do it are rare. The Flash Platform is the easiest way to do all of that. I haven't seen anything that can tie up interactive media as easy with scalable complexity like Flash has. Some early pioneers were John Maeda, Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura, Robert Hodgins, and Ze

Re: [Grassroots-l] What keeps me going...

2009-01-12 Thread sapan kadakia
Hey, Well wriiten mail with lot of motivation and a whole new source of energy for every volunteer to work for . lets hope to join the missing dots all over and try to achieve all the tagets of this project. cheers, sapan On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Sameer Verma

Re: Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Philipp Kocher
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:50, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the Journal (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather than the

Re: Nand blaster with 30 XOs

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Garrison
Please see: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-January/022334.html I hope that is enough to get started. I don't know if the best place to continue discussion is in this thread or that. In any case I will be happy to help. The thread already has some good commentaries analyzing the