Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread John Watlington
Don't go there. It is hard to talk about the resolution of the PixelQi display. In BW mode, it is 1200 x 900.In color mode, it is something closer to 690 x 520, but the human visual system has much less color resolution anyway so it appears sharper. MLJ did a great job of matching the display

Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 28 July 2012 13:51, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: >> IANAL, but the term "Retina" in reference to computers and mobile >> devices is an Apple trademark, so any such use (referring to anything >> but an Apple device) would be violating thei

Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: > IANAL, but the term "Retina" in reference to computers and mobile > devices is an Apple trademark, so any such use (referring to anything > but an Apple device) would be violating their rights to that mark. IANAL too (although I Am K

Re: Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > IANAL, but the term "Retina" in reference to computers and mobile How about "fovea display"? ;-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with sh

Re: Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > The phrase "retina display" is being used a lot these days. My reading > indicates that the vendor uses this term quite loosely [1]. There you > can see that the definition currently ranges from 326 to 220 ppi. > > The resolution of the

Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The phrase "retina display" is being used a lot these days. My reading indicates that the vendor uses this term quite loosely [1]. There you can see that the definition currently ranges from 326 to 220 ppi. The resolution of the XO's display is listed as 200 dpi [2], which is not far off. If I hav

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the >> 0.98 cycle is packaging all control-panel applets as rpms. As this >> discussion does not impact the UI and more o

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the > 0.98 cycle is packaging all control-panel applets as rpms. As this > discussion does not impact the UI and more of a packaging issue I'm an > not creating a Features page.

Re: Fwd: [PATCH]Add --cacheonly to livecd-create (and to olpc-os-builder)

2012-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > That is kind of interesting as I'm on liv...@lists.fedoraproject.org. I > have not had any email from that list since July 9 nor have the > archives[1]. Where did that email end up going? Yeah, I'm subscribed there with nomail, and the listse

Re: Engadget post on XO Touch

2012-07-27 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:15 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > > www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/olpc-xo-touch-1-75-to-use-neonode-tech/ > > > > The post says "as yet unreleased XO 1.75". What's the official status > > on the 1.75? Still as yet unrel

Re: sugar-gnomekeyring.patch

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Hi All: > > Just looking at the current 0.96-3 src.rpm for sugar and wondering if > sugar-gnomekeyring.patch should be somewhere else other than in the > sugar package. This is a one time configuration that the olpc-utils[1] > package currently