Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

2013-11-21 Thread Basanta Shrestha
Dear all, We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new layout we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply switched the /usr/share/X11/symbols/np file with a new one but did not work. I guess there are some other works that needs to be done before we can

The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-11-21 Thread Basanta Shrestha
Hi list, Just realized that the mouse touchpad doesn't work for XO4. Has it been disabled on purpose ? is there a way to enable it ? -basanta ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Introducing SimpleActivity / Introduciendo SimpleActivity

2013-11-21 Thread Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez
= English (Español debajo) = Hi everyone, I am writing to show you what I was developing those last days, in order to make simpler the developing of Sugar Activities, this module, micro library or whatever you want to call it, makes much more easier the processes that every activity does, for

Re: The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
basanta wrote: Hi list, Just realized that the mouse touchpad doesn't work for XO4. Has it been disabled on purpose ? is there a way to enable it ? is this on a single XO-4? the touchpad should work fine. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-11-21 Thread John Watlington
Seconding what Paul said, the touchpad on XO-4 should be fully functional. If you have one that isn't, I would first test it from Open Firmware (halt the laptop boot in Open Firmware --- at the ok prompt and type:test /mouse If that indicates a problem, see:

Re: The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-11-21 Thread Basanta Shrestha
Sorry for the confusion. The mouse pad is working okay, what I was trying to refer to was hit on the pad to click. On XO-1, I am able to hit on the pad to get the effect of mouse click ( left click) which I can not in XO-4. -basanta On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:58 AM, John Watlington

Re: [Sugar-desarrollo] Introducing SimpleActivity / Introduciendo SimpleActivity

2013-11-21 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Excellent work, this is something Sugar needed for a long time. Gonzalo On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez a...@sugarlabs.org wrote: = English (Español debajo) = Hi everyone, I am writing to show you what I was developing those last days, in order to make simpler

Re: [Sugar-devel] Introducing SimpleActivity / Introduciendo SimpleActivity

2013-11-21 Thread James Cameron
+1 I have reviewed simpleactivity.py and testactivity.py This code is very legible and explains well what it does, and can serve as an example for new activity authors. The docstrings in simpleactivity.py are an effective explanation of the simplified API, so perhaps you can generate the

Re: The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-11-21 Thread James Cameron
Have you enabled the feature in your builds? The tap to click feature is disabled by default in our OLPC OS builds, because of the installed base of existing learners who were not familiar with it. In new deployments to inexperienced learners, it may be enabled before build. See

Re: SharedActivity

2013-11-21 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Hi, At Pycon 2008, Mike Fletcher gave a tutorial on implementation of tic-tac-toe as a shared activity (www.vrplumber.com/olpc/pycon2008-handout.odt). The idea is that two children play while others watch. At the end of the game, watchers can play (e.g. loser becomes watcher). Nim might

Re: [Server-devel] The three step XSCE demo!

2013-11-21 Thread David Farning
Should I turn this into a wiki page? On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Miguel González migonzal...@activitycentral.com wrote: I'm going to describe in detail my current dev environment. Hopefully, it could be useful for somebody. Pre-requisites I'm using a VirtualBox and installing a

Re: [Server-devel] The three step XSCE demo!

2013-11-21 Thread Miguel González
I'm going to describe in detail my current dev environment. Hopefully, it could be useful for somebody. Pre-requisites I'm using a VirtualBox and installing a virtual machine with Fedora18. I'm also use vagrant to automatically manage the virtual machine. There packages available from its

Re: [Server-devel] The three step XSCE demo!

2013-11-21 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 11/21/2013 12:46 PM, David Farning wrote: Should I turn this into a wiki page? On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Miguel González migonzal...@activitycentral.com wrote: I'm going to describe in detail my current dev environment. Hopefully, it could be useful for somebody. I have some