Re: Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

2008-08-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.08.2008 um 00:04 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. >> pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 >> build stream. >> But

Re: Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.08.2008 um 11:39 schrieb Hilaire Fernandes: > I am at the Smalltalk Camp in Amsterdam, with SqueakNOS colleagues we > try to start XO machine with SqueakNOS operating system. > > We don't find the key sequence to boot on USB. We will keep searching > but if any of you have direct pointer, t

Re: olpc.fth and OFW api docs

2008-08-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 25.08.2008 um 16:11 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > mitch wrote: >> paul fox wrote: >>> mitch wrote: Open Firmware can boot ELF binaries directly. Put your .elf file in the root directory on a USB key that is formatted with either a FAT filesystem (preferred) or an ext2 fil

Re: Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 25.08.2008 um 16:14 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > hilaire wrote: >> Any pointer to what is OFW? I don't find it in the wiki. > > search for "Open Firmware". >http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Firmware Something is severely wrong with the wiki search box. This page works fine: http:

Re: Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
> The SqueakNOS people write the driver directly in Smalltalk. > > Hilaire > > > 2008/8/25 Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Am 25.08.2008 um 16:14 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> hilaire wrote: >>>> Any pointer to what is

Re: Scratch localization.

2008-08-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 27.08.2008 um 18:38 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: > Scratch appears to require manual editing of the Scratch.ini file in > order to come up in a language other than English. Is there any way I > can pass a command-line option in bin/scratch-activity to set the > Language preference based on the v

Re: [PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-08-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 28.08.2008 um 15:34 schrieb Daniel Drake: > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:04 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> b) To reflect the current and near future deployments (including G1G1 >> 2008) and the level of translations that we have in Pootle, the >> variables get changed to >> >> en:es:ar:pl:pt_

Power-on to GUI in 20 seconds

2008-08-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fAUGRUDVA Brought to you by Gerardo Richarte, with bootstrapping help from Mitch Bradley. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Power-on to GUI in 20 seconds

2008-08-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 29.08.2008 um 15:34 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > bert wrote: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fAUGRUDVA >> >> Brought to you by Gerardo Richarte, with bootstrapping help from >> Mitch >> Bradley. > > i can't resist pointing out that we could probably do that with > linux too, if we weren't

New joyride build

2008-08-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I don't know what's wrong with rwh's announcer, but joyride builds are working again: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Power-on to GUI in 20 seconds

2008-08-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 29.08.2008 um 22:19 schrieb Edward Cherlin: > bert wrote: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fAUGRUDVA >> >> Brought to you by Gerardo Richarte, with bootstrapping help from >> Mitch Bradley. > > Thanks, Mitch. Where can we get details and code? Its not released yet, but

Re: CSound server questions

2008-08-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 29.08.2008 um 23:10 schrieb John Maloney: > Thanks, Jim and Victor. > > Jim, your explanation makes sense. Good to know what the future > direction is for OLPC and CSound. > > If I have questions about making Scratch use CSound, who is the best > person to ask? If it still supports OSC you c

Re: OFW vs. proprietary BIOS

2008-08-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 31.08.2008 um 18:51 schrieb K. K. Subramaniam: > On Saturday 30 Aug 2008 5:37:07 am Mitch Bradley wrote: >> A lot of the OFW functionality is targeted toward the task of >> managing a >> large collection of possibly-plug-in I/O devices, then booting a >> general >> purpose OS. > Like Squeak

Re: CSound server questions

2008-08-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 31.08.2008 um 19:04 schrieb victor: > Well, you can ask me. I suppose there are various ways you could > connect to Csound: > > 1. using the API (via a C or C++ squeak plugin > module, if it is possible to do these things), > 2. through MIDI (if > squeak can output MIDI and we can then connect

Re: Frimware Q2E15 and Joyride-2368, good and bad

2008-09-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 03.09.2008 um 12:49 schrieb Ton van Overbeek: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >>> C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Ton van Overbeek <[

Re: New joyride build 2382

2008-09-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 03.09.2008 um 19:19 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:00:39PM -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote: >>> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2382 >>> >>> Changes in build 2382 from

Re: olpc-update joyride-latest points me to theft-deterrence service

2008-09-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 03.09.2008 um 22:28 schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: > Hey, > > I just wanted to upgrade my XO via the "olpc-update joyride-latest" > I had just discovered. > > How all that happened was that the following url was displayed > before I was back at the prompt: > > "Update and theft-deterrence

Re: Cmap tools (was [Techteam] Weekend Report - due today)

2008-09-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 04.09.2008 um 01:06 schrieb Michael Stone: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: >> Has anyone tried making the activity which is X-windows and inside >> which >> other activities can run? > > [1] and [2] seem apropos. > > Michael > > [1]: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket

Re: Wellington testers + Activities vs 8.2-759

2008-09-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 06.09.2008 um 06:52 schrieb Martin Langhoff: > Mini vMac > - Works well, and gives the Mac fans little jumps > - No sound? > - No network? > - Display is very small, could it be done with a 2x zoom? > - Shutdown process is mildly awkward According to the wiki Ctrl-F toggles a 2x zoom ... > -

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Well, even spelling it "external power required" is better than the cryptic "AC not present". - Bert - Am 08.09.2008 um 17:25 schrieb Eben Eliason: > I know I've said this before, but I really want to get some UI polish > into this part of the system. Instead of the cryptic "AC not present" >

IPv6 problem on crank

2008-09-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I got really weird problems on my build diff script today, with a gazillion of them frozen (they're triggered by cron). I tracked it down to a non-working IPv6 connection to xs-dev. This hangs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ curl -I http://xs-dev.laptop.org/ but forcing IPv4 makes it work: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 10.09.2008 um 14:52 schrieb Walter Bender: > Are we still so wedded to the purity of circles? Simply changing the > shape of the icon once a connection is made would go a long way. Maybe > morph into a star? or a sun? Or add the ubiquitous parens around the > icon a la the indicator light? Non

Re: Bundle activity

2008-09-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
IIUC the activity would not deal with files but with journal entries. So you can copy several journal entries into a zipped entry, and you can unzip entries from a zipped one. This has nothing to do with files in the home directory (besides, a regular activity cannot write to home, and read

Re: Getting a path to SUGAR_ACTVITY_ROOT

2008-09-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 12.09.2008 um 00:08 schrieb John Maloney: > s = getenv("SUGAR_ACTVITY_ROOT"); Try inserting an "I" there ;) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Rainbow-daemon dialog in Browse?

2008-09-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I've never seen a "rainbow-daemon" dialog before, what is it supposed to do? It doesn't work anyway, I filed a ticket with screenshot: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8435 - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/l

Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)

2008-09-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Seth Woodworth: > So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data- > points and very rough in layout. > > On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small > changes; a drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in > cert

Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)

2008-09-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 16.09.2008 um 23:14 schrieb Walter Bender: > You can add anchors to pages in the wiki, so you could do Activities#X My wiki-fu is not strong enough ... and I do not see "anchors" mentioned on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help:Editing - Bert - __

Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)

2008-09-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:54 schrieb Bert Freudenberg: > > (hehe, wouldn't http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#X be a nicer > link? No way to do that I fear) Oh, thanks to Walter this works now :) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@li

Re: mechanisms tied to mesh: "under a tree" collab

2008-09-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 17.09.2008 um 07:26 schrieb John Gilmore: > The decision to tie application sharing to Mesh and Sugar was a bad > design idea, one which I've been intending to explore fixing. As Benjamin pointed out, the sharing is *not* tied to the mesh. It works just as well if both machines can receive b

Re: mechanisms tied to mesh: "under a tree" collab

2008-09-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 17.09.2008 um 11:28 schrieb John Gilmore: >> The problem comes from the OLPC marketing that equates "mesh" with >> "collaboration" which in fact are two independent concepts. What the >> UI displays as "Mesh Server" should be "Collaboration Server" - it's >> only needed to mediate if the laptop

Re: VideoChat-7 release

2008-09-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 18.09.2008 um 15:17 schrieb Stephen Thorne: > http://suqld.org.au/~stephen/VideoChat-7.xo Yay! We just had a video chat between Australia and Germany :) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] G1G1v2 Activities

2008-09-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I noticed in the new help activity there is an activity sampler of 21 activities. Are these going to be shipped? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: G1G1v2 Activities

2008-09-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 19.09.2008 um 01:13 schrieb Douglas Bagnall: > Greg Smith wrote: > >> What do you think are the most important activities to include? > > If we're sticking to activities with valid activity.info files, then > (AFAICT) we're limited to: > > XaoS - org.codewiz.XaoS > Sokoban

Keeping Trac(k)

2008-09-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
For keeping up with new Trac tickets I discovered this RSS feed: http://dev.laptop.org/timeline?ticket=on&max=50&daysback=7&format=rss ... which only has entries for opened and closed tickets. This is much more bearable than subscribing to the bug notify list. Even better would be if I could f

Re: Keeping Trac(k)

2008-09-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 19.09.2008 um 19:07 schrieb Gary C Martin: > Hi Bert, > > On 19 Sep 2008, at 13:27, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >> For keeping up with new Trac tickets I discovered this RSS feed: >> >> http://dev.laptop.org/timeline?ticket=on&max=50&daysback=7&forma

Re: [sugar] frame gets in the way when alt-tabbing

2008-09-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.09.2008 um 06:21 schrieb Erik Garrison: > Both Joyride and 8.2 streams have composition enabled by default. > > You can test composition by running "xcompmgr -d :0.0" in the > terminal. It is available, but the window manager does not use it, afaik. - Bert - _

8.2.0 deployments

2008-09-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Hi, is there a list for who is anticipated to be using 8.2.0 (in contrast to 8.2.1 for example)? One reason I'm asking is that a Turkish translation update just popped in and it would be good to know if this means we need to update the package now or if it can wait for 8.2.1. - Bert - __

update_url and joyride

2008-09-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Scott, how would I have to layout an activity update_url site if I want to provide a stable version for 8.2 but a later one for joyride builds? IIUC then the joyride updater will also try $update_url/8.2 just like a stable build does, right? Is there a way to do it without resorting to spe

Re: update_url and joyride

2008-09-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.09.2008 um 14:10 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> how would I have to layout an activity update_url site if I want to >> provide >> a stable version for 8.2 but a later one for

Testing server-based collaboration

2008-09-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
What server is available for testing collaboration? I erroneously filed this ticket http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8643 because an outage of xochat.org coincided with my upgrading to build 763. But I do not know any other suitable server since olpc.collabora.co.uk became unusable. Thanks, -

Re: G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 25.09.2008 um 10:06 schrieb Sameer Verma: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> In an attempt to make the decision-making process more unbiased >>> (or at >>> lea

Activity resume issues (was Re: twenty issues with Paint activity)

2008-09-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 26.09.2008 um 06:20 schrieb Mikus Grinbergs: >>> If from Journal I double-click on a Paint activity icon, I get two >>> icons >>> in the Frame, one of which has a doubled menu ("Paint Activity - >>> Resume >>> - Stop - Resume - Stop") that I can't resume or stop. When I >>> tried to >>>

Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-09-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
The lock-down of this page (which causes lock-down of all included pages transitively) was fine until Scott replaced the references to the 8.2 versions of activities with the old G1G1 page. E.g., when the page was locked, it included http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Etoys_(8.2)

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-09-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 28.09.2008 um 09:38 schrieb Carol Lerche: > Why not call it a "tester's key"? It is principally useful for > testing late-breaking versions. IMHO a user doesn't even have to know there is a "key", let alone worry about its name. The "test" designation is a good one, so why not simply ha

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-09-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 28.09.2008 um 07:59 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> The lock-down of this page (which causes lock-down of all included >> pages >> transitively) was fine until Scott repl

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-09-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 28.09.2008 um 11:30 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> >> Am 28.09.2008 um 07:59 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL

Major differences between releases

2008-09-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I think it would be a good idea for everyone (activity authors in particular) to cross-check the changes in what packages are included in the new stable release, in particular what packages are *going away*: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update.1-8.2.html Also, is there any chance someo

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-30 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 30.09.2008 um 11:13 schrieb John Watlington: > > On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> The video in "Hulk Central Smashdown" shows only two >>> frames, and the game is unplayable due to slowness

Deployment-specific packages?

2008-10-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
We could shave off a few seconds of Etoys start-up time if, e.g., the Spanish translation was pre-loaded. Also, having a localized package would allow to include translated example projects and help guides (which are not covered by gettext-based translations). Are there any plans to put spec

Re: [Localization] Deployment-specific packages?

2008-10-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 08.10.2008 um 16:14 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We could shave off a few seconds of Etoys start-up time if, e.g., the >> Spanish translation was pre-loaded. Also, having a localized p

Re: [IAEP] sugar and the digital age (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 09.10.2008 um 19:10 schrieb elana langer: > there is a very common feeling amongst policy makers and teacher that > the XO doesn't really prepare students for the field of IT. There was > a pilot project done in Mongolia that was run by the Japanese gov't > where they introduced Linux to 4 town

Re: joyride-activities.py --mirror

2008-10-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 14.10.2008 um 05:01 schrieb James Cameron: > Added a --mirror flag to joyride-activities.py so that the script > can be > used on a system without dbus or sugar, in order to create a mirror of > the activity files for later pickup. > > git clone http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/berts-script.git

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 15.10.2008 um 11:02 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> Am 15.10.2008 um 01:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> the distro landscape has changed a bit in the last few years, is it &g

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 15.10.2008 um 01:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > the distro landscape has changed a bit in the last few years, is it > worth > considering a jump to Ubuntu if it has a better fit for your release > cycle? at the very least it telegraphs the long-term support versions. Ubuntu also seems a mu

Re: Dependencies (was [Activities] Tux Typing on OLPC XO)

2008-10-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#Bundling_Native_Libraries - Bert - Am 20.10.2008 um 15:20 schrieb Brian Jordan: > How should dependencies like TuxType's be handled? > > (found list at http://sophie.zarb.org/rpm/Momonga,4,x86_64/tuxtype/deps > ) > > Thanks > Brian > > --

Re: 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 14:53 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: > Hi, > > I think that with a small effort, we could implement something much > better than what we have today. > > We have glorious plans for the view source key, but as no resources > have been devoted to them, perhaps we should scale back and make s

Re: 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the > best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity would have to handle that key, which is fragile. I'd opt for the shell always handlin

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 15:33 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > bert wrote: >> Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the >>> best bet, i think. >> >> This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity >> would

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.10.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Chris Ball: > Hi Bert, > >> ... because it displays Milestone, Component, Version, and Keywords >> entry fields twice: > >> and then reports a Trac Error: "Multi-values fields not supported >> yet" > > Which browser are you using, and do you have Javascript turned o

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
from a >> machine that is grumpy? >> >> --Noah >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Chris Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:11 PM >>> To: Noah Kantrowitz >>> Cc: Bert Freudenberg; OLPC Devel >&g

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 27.10.2008 um 05:54 schrieb Benjamin M. Schwartz: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> the full-screen mode is useless as the large icon to revert back to >> normal >> covers up the text in the upper corner. > > That icon is tiny, at least on my copy of Read. It certainly occupies > less vertica

Re: Anyone set up a client/server application using stream tubes?

2008-10-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 27.10.2008 um 11:23 schrieb Guillaume Desmottes <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > Le vendredi 24 octobre 2008 à 14:18 +, Faisal Anwar a écrit : >> Hi All, >> >> I'm trying to document some more stuff related to Stream Tubes for >> the >> sugar almanac (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanac) an

Re: Anyone set up a client/server application using stream tubes?

2008-10-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 27.10.2008, at 08:29, Faisal Anwar wrote: > Thanks, I'll check out Etoys further to see how it is done there. > I've looked through Read already and have already documented a > similar pattern in the Almanac. I was hoping to document some more > advanced uses of stream tubes where users c

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.10.2008, at 11:38, James Simmons wrote: > What the Journal doesn't do is > open the one you'd like as a default. /usr/share/sugar/data/activities.default - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/d

Re: Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

2008-10-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 29.10.2008, at 16:51, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Asheesh Laroia wrote: >>> I have a general sugar UI question: My activity, "License", a >>> simple

Re: Status of Joyride

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 31.10.2008, at 03:02, Peter Robinson wrote: > Can someone poke the announcer scripts that updates the following > URLs. > http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride_vs_update1.html In the mean time you can still use what the old scripts generate: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
28.09.2008, at 07:59, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> The lock-down of this page (which causes lock-down of all included >> pages >> transitively) was fine until Scott replaced the references to the

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
ote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > *bump* > > > > Can we do something about the still-locked pages? Since joyride is > active > > again this part needs to be opened up too. > > > > E.g., th

Re: [sugar] Major differences between releases

2008-11-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 10.11.2008, at 16:45, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> I've started http://wiki.laptop.org/go/API_changes to track Sugar and >> system API changes between releases. It's not very comprehensive so >> far - contributions we

Re: keyboard

2008-11-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 11.11.2008, at 16:05, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Monday 10 Nov 2008 10:15:16 pm Tony Anderson wrote: >> I have my XO set up to switch between us and np keyboard layouts. >> What I >> need is a way in Python to find out which of these layouts is >> currently >> selected. > Try get_keyboa

Re: G1G1-2008 US machines delivered with 8.1 build 708, not with 8.2 build 767

2008-11-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Hi Ed, so since there is no stock in Europe can we assume that the machines ordered at the UK site will all come with 8.2? Makes support way easier. - Bert - On 20.11.2008, at 03:48, Ed McNierney wrote: > Ton - > > Thanks for supporting the G1G1 program with your purchases! This > year it

Re: Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-11-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Activity versions still need to be pegged on [[Activities/G1G1/8.2]]. *Please*? - Bert - On 31.10.2008, at 23:55, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Hmm, Activities/Joyride still referred to Activities/Etoys_(8.2) but > I can't really find my way in the tangle of G1G1 redirects to f

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.11.2008, at 11:57, Strider wrote: > Hi, > I have a XO Laptop which is a nice machine machine with a high res > display of 1200x900 pixels. The problem with this is that the laptop > isn't powerful enugh to handle fullscreen applications at this > resolution. If only the display could

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.11.2008, at 17:37, Jordan Crouse wrote: > Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 25.11.2008, at 11:57, Strider wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have a XO Laptop which is a nice machine machine with a high >>> res display of 1200x900 pixels. The problem with this is t

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.11.2008, at 18:37, Jordan Crouse wrote: > Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 25.11.2008, at 17:37, Jordan Crouse wrote: >>> Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>>> On 25.11.2008, at 11:57, Strider wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have a XO Laptop which i

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.11.2008, at 20:13, Jordan Crouse wrote: > Thanks to Mitch, I fixed the scaling problem. Based on > conversations on > IRC, I am afraid that you will be very disappointed [...] > > xrandr --output default --mode Why should we be disappointed? That's what we wanted all along, no? Great

Re: Touch pads

2008-11-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 26.11.2008, at 04:18, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Note that the Embedded Controller firmware version is also important. > I suppose there are still very many XOs out in the field with the > original firmware. Since Q2E18(?) there was a change causing many more > mouse packets to be delivered to

Re: XO Feature Roadmap meeting on today at 2PM US ET IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting

2008-11-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 26.11.2008, at 15:27, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > The weekly XO Feature Roadmap meeting is on today at: > 2PM US ET IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting > > Minutes from the last meeting and agenda for todays meeting are here: > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/021252.html >

Re: installing fonts How To

2008-11-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 27.11.2008, at 12:10, S Page wrote: > a guess at why ~olpc/.fonts doesn't work, etc. Everyone who thinks this does not need to be broken could vote up this bug: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6629 - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@list

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-12-01 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 01.12.2008, at 15:37, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM, John Maloney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, Tomeu. >> >> Thanks for your reply. It's great that there is a way to handle this! >> >> I took a quick look at the EToys .xo bundle and did not see a >> mimetypes.xml

Emulating 8.2-767

2008-12-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Hi everyone, even with XOs readily available now there are quite a lot of reasons why one would want to emulate it on another machine. One being to hook up a projector. Unfortunately there are quite a number of hoops (*) one has to jump through to make it work. Anyway, I made a virtual mach

Re: Announcing the NANDblaster

2008-12-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.12.2008, at 09:53, Mitch Bradley wrote: > The multicast NAND reflasher - AKA NANDblaster - is ready for serious > testing. > > See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update for > instructions. > > Mitch Wow, that's great! With that reflashing many laptops might even be fun

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2008-12-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 06.12.2008, at 16:19, Dave Bauer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > (*) > Now to the hoops: > > * I started with the 767/ext3 image from > http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/ > * extend

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2008-12-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 06.12.2008, at 16:49, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 06.12.2008, at 16:19, Dave Bauer wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> wrote: >> >> (*) >> Now to the hoops: >> >> * I started with the 767/

Re: Add Fedora logo

2008-12-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 06.12.2008, at 17:49, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Add Fedora logo to Sugar > > This is, I think, a misunderstanding. Yes it is. I set reply-to to OLPC-devel, this does not concern Suagr. > Kim says "Sugar is supposed to > include a fedora logo (they will provide), on

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2008-12-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 06.12.2008, at 22:54, Dave Bauer wrote: > I got the bare image working in virtualbox. > > > Btw, if I had to do it again I'd start with an image that already > has the activities installed: > > http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/custom/g1g1/gg-767-4/ > > I downloaded this but Virtualbox says it

Re: proposal for updating Activities/Joyride page

2008-12-07 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 07.12.2008, at 14:15, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride is out of date. Some > activities, e.g. Record and Read, need new versions listed which are > not backwards compatible with 8.2. The current listed versions are > included because of Joyride inclu

Re: Updating NASA Connect Squeak / eToys Lessons

2008-12-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
t; such a thing as group select to move? I only get the halos on each > object. Shift-click and drag on the background ... - Bert - > Mike > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Bert Freudenberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > did you contact

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be working for > me. Please test. > Attached is the patch which did the trick. Ugh. Why is it necessary to copy the plugin to $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/ data ? That would only make sense if it

Re: [Sugar-devel] One instance activity

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote: > Are you sure? Browse makes use of shared code, but still presents the > user with the appearance of multiple instances. Right. The way to do it would be to create a unique D-Bus service in your activity. When the second instance tries to create

Re: 8.2.1 test plan finalized (next: test cases need finalization)

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 19:23, Mel Chua wrote: > I believe that means that we can consider the list of test cases > here as > final (Joe/Kim, please holler if I'm incorrect): > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.1 The Etoys ticket number is 8982 not 9045 as listed on that page. And please use

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 22:29, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> >> On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be work

Re: [Sugar-devel] One instance activity

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 10.12.2008, at 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >> On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote: >> >>> Are you sure? Browse makes use of shared code, but still presents >>> the >>> user with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] One instance activity

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 10.12.2008, at 11:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >> On 10.12.2008, at 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>>> On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote: &

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 10.12.2008, at 13:13, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> >> On 09.12.2008, at 22:29, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bert Freudenb

Resuming by default (was: One instance activity)

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 20:39, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote: >> Pablo, for what reasons do you desire to prevent multiple instances >> from running? > > Hope there's a better reason than "it's too easy to create unwanted >

Re: 8.2.1 builds now underway.

2008-12-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.12.2008, at 01:37, Michael Stone wrote: > > P.S. - People who maintain build-announcers -- please update them; > they're really helpful! Thanks! http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/8.2.1-pkgs.html - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org h

Re: Collaboration using qemu emulation

2008-12-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
(redirecting to devel lists) On 12.12.2008, at 08:52, Morgan Collett wrote: > > b.2) Run your own Jabber server. This requires ejabberd, with some > custom patches, which until recently meant compiling ejabberd from > source. Now however the required patches have been added to ejabberd > in debian

Re: Downloading Scratch project to XO

2008-12-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
John, does Scratch accept a .sb file on its command line? If so, the launcher script could get the file from the Journal and pass it on. - Bert - On 15.12.2008, at 18:53, John Maloney wrote: > Hi, Phillipp. > > Thanks for reporting this problem. I believe there is a way to tell > the XO to a

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 16.12.2008, at 18:56, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > >> (but seriously: we only need to add to what we have -- we don't >> need to start from scratch, rebuilding and/or subtracting from >> fedora.) > > In particular, I think: > > * take a Joyride build > * yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Enviro

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