Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-16 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:53:03AM -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: > A "Live" CD doesn't run "on" anything, generally speaking. It implies > a CD which you boot the entire operating system from. To the best of > my knowledge there are no Live Windows Sugar CD's. This users' perspective is not unusual .

Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin Cole
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:59, Manusheel Gupta wrote: > Dear all, > > Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc > activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works > very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi, I just wante

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > My experience with the XO-1.5 has been much better: [...] snip! >> 2) Infoslicer always claimed it couldn't reach the network > > Did not run Infoslicer when away from home - so haven't tried it. I heard this was a known issue - the Wikipedia folks changed apparently so

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
My experience with the XO-1.5 has been much better: > 4) Both Browse and Firefox on Gnome don't load certain popular sites > (see below). I don't go to Gnome - I run both Browse and Firefox under Sugar. Neither Browse nor Firefox had any trouble whatsoever with either of those sites (Skype, Ma

XO-1 -> XO-1.5 upgrades?

2009-10-16 Thread david
this is probably the wrong list to ask this on, but since I'm not sure which would be the right one I'll ask here. has there been any thought to providing some sort of XO-1 to XO-1.5 upgrade path for the G1G1 buyers? I got 8 of these for family members (and testing), and while I consider the in

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Samuel Klein
Some more comments from recent use and demos of my 1.5 w/ os32, some of which I'll put into trac. 1) Twice in half an hour I was able to get Sugar to stop redrawing when, while it had 5-6 activities open, someone hovered over the XO on the desktop to pull up the config menu. The menu would open,

Alpha release - Deducto and Color Deducto activity

2009-10-16 Thread Manusheel Gupta
Dear all, I am delighted to announce the alpha release of the Deducto and Color Deducto activities. Please visit - 1. *Deducto home page* - http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/deducto.html 2. *Color Deducto home page* - http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/color-deducto.html 3. *User gu

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected > without a proxy. I don't quite understand this statement. Were you connected to the XO-1.5 over the internet, using a technique like X forwarding or VNC? > The principal user-perception experience wher

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 17:52, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:44, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a >> proxy.  My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. >> >> The principal user-perception experience where impro

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:44, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a > proxy.  My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. > > The principal user-perception experience where improvement would still be > welcome is video support.  Changes

XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a proxy. My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. The principal user-perception experience where improvement would still be welcome is video support. Changes to the screen (e.g., show/hide Frame) are not being done "sm

Re: Hulahop Webview widget closes parent(s) when hidden

2009-10-16 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi George, It may be possible that WebView is crashing for you. We saw this sometime back for the French Help activity - the latest working code is in http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr/repos/mainline/trees/master Thanks, Sayamindu On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM, George Hunt wrote: > Hi e

Hulahop Webview widget closes parent(s) when hidden

2009-10-16 Thread George Hunt
Hi everybody, I have been trying to use the WebView widget from hulahop to display documentation in an Activity. I don't have enough experience to know where to start looking to fix the problem I'm having: The following test program shows the different widget behavior comparing gtk.Textview wit

Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-16 Thread Manusheel Gupta
Tomeu, It would be great to have the XO-LiveCD perform at par with the other Sugar distributions. I surely have an interest in the performance of all Sugar distributions. Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 20:13, Manusheel Gupta wrot