Re: [support-gang] 11.2.0 release notes ready for review

2011-07-22 Thread James Simmons
file system. It is my idea of what the Journal should be like. You can check it out here: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4291 James Simmons > Journal entries, especially ones that are just metadata that an activity > was used are very small amounts of data on the di

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-23 Thread James Simmons
has been translated into Spanish as well. James Simmons On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: > Gonzalzo, > Thanks for your help with this. > I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read Ebooks. > What the teachers were asking for was

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread James Simmons
;Super Vampire Ninja Zero". It ONLY works on the XO screen dimensions, without rotation. Don't be that guy! James Simmons On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:14 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: >> It is sometimes a designer

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-09 Thread James Simmons
image I'm displaying. You might look at the code for View Slides to see how I do that (or look at Read SD Comics which does the same thing but is simpler). Screen rotation is a useful feature of the XO. Your Activity should be able to deal with it gracefully. James Simmons On Thu, Dec 9, 20

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Alpha release] DevTutor activity

2010-11-08 Thread James Simmons
uld implement at least part of functionality in .84, which might be the newest thing out in the field. I'll try out your Activity at home in my dev environment and let you know what I think. It sound pretty neat! Terrific job on the icon, by the way. James Simmons On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:30 PM,

Re: Code walk-through desired

2009-03-30 Thread James Simmons
. Thanks, James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 00:31, James Simmons wrote: As many of you already know, I have written a couple of Activities called Read Etexts and View Slides. For the most part they work pretty well, however they are written entirely in Python by s

Code walk-through desired

2009-03-27 Thread James Simmons
exts. I've described my ideas on that in the Read Etexts page in the wiki. If anyone has suggestions on how I might implement those ideas in Python and pygtk please pass them along. The members of this list have been extremely helpful in making these Activities as good as they h

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
shows the name when we invite Billy to share it, so how do I get that name? James Simmons Gary C Martin wrote: > On 16 Mar 2009, at 15:29, James Simmons wrote: > >> It looks like my last naive question about collaboration started a >> discussion so notable that Walter Bender wrot

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
Great, once again I'm going to be indebted to Aleksey Lim. I'll give shared.py a try as soon as I can. James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: > I wrote a brief proposal a few weeks ago for an improvement to the > collab API that might help this problem. The discuss

How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
already decided it needs to download the file. I need a way for the __init__ method to realize that it doesn't need to download the file, or some other way to deal with the problem. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@l

Attn: Tony Anderson--Text To Speech in Read Etexts

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
use the gstreamer espeak plugin is not generally available yet. However, if you are interested in giving it a try I can email you everything you need as attachments. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Collaboration test environment problem

2009-03-03 Thread James Simmons
different server the next time it happens. Thanks, James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 17:46, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: James Simmons wrote: I have two PCs running Fedora 10 and the Sugar RPMs that come with that. One of the computers runs GNOME and the

Re: Collaboration test environment problem

2009-03-02 Thread James Simmons
the neighborhood view doesn't look truncated, so I don't know. I'm not exactly sure that the same users are appearing in both neighborhoods (other than the one I know is missing). I'll try and verify that tonight. James Simmons Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: James Simmons

Collaboration test environment problem

2009-03-02 Thread James Simmons
talled from the Xubuntu Live CD and the other was using openSUSE 10.2 and sugar-jhbuild. I can't test and develop collaboration until I get these machines to both see each other and I don't know where to begin. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Thanks, James Simmons _

Screen rotation -- My two cents

2009-03-02 Thread James Simmons
erpoint, I think, and Yahoo Go for TV) so maybe there is a way to accomplish this on the XO as well. Or maybe I could set up a key combination to toggle the mouse pointer visibility. But how, in Python, can I hide the mouse pointer? I haven't been able to find anything on that using The

I have added "pootle" to the committers for Read ETexts and View Slides

2009-02-27 Thread James Simmons
I'm sending this to this mailing list because I am not subscribed to Sugar Developers. Let me know if there are any problems. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

How do I get my Activities on Pootle?

2009-02-23 Thread James Simmons
and none of them seemed to be Activities. With the possibility that Read Etexts may be used in Nepal I've become much more interested in getting the text strings in my Activities translated. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be grateful. Thanks,

Re: Latest on Read Etexts and espeak

2009-02-23 Thread James Simmons
ound card installed. In any case, what ever it is is not a speech-dispatcher problem and the XO should not be affected. James Simmons Tony Anderson wrote: > James, > > I appreciate your work. It sounds like you are making great progress. > As I understand the dispatcher, it ac

Latest on Read Etexts and espeak

2009-02-19 Thread James Simmons
s an SD problem or an mplayer problem. I hope this doesn't mean that if we use SD on the XO then Tam Tam doesn't work. I have posted a question to the SD mailing list on this. I should have a much improved Read Etexts published in the usual place some ti

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-19 Thread James Simmons
think that the mesh networking is a function of the wireless networking built into the XO and that two computers wired to the same router can't collaborate that way. I'd be interested to know if I'm right. Thanks, James Simmons Gary C Martin wrote: > Hmm, interesting. I'

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-19 Thread James Simmons
sh working this weekend and take it from there. Thanks again for your help. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-16 Thread James Simmons
f Sugar on one of these machines as well. I don't have my own jabber server. How would you suggest I set up a test environment for collaboration? Thanks again, James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hey James, > > FYI here is the collaboration code in Colors! > > http:

Re: etextRead activity and espeak

2009-02-16 Thread James Simmons
of it she agreed the kids deserved better. So she may tolerate more hours of basement hacking than she normally does. I hope you'll try out Read Etexts with speech-dispatcher installed and let me know what you think. Thanks, James Simmons Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > The ed

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 36, Issue 59

2009-02-16 Thread James Simmons
mage in Browse or the ImageViewer there was an keep error when closing the activity." Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-13 Thread James Simmons
k I'll get them both working. Thanks, James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: Hey James, FYI here is the collaboration code in Colors! http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/colors/repos/mainline/blobs/master/colors.py#line641 It's fairly well commented but let me know if you have any question

Re: Speech-dispatcher, etextRead activity and espeak

2009-02-13 Thread James Simmons
ave any special expertise for installing SD. Thanks, James Simmons Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > The educational team at OLENepal would like a 'karaoke-style' text > reader above all other activities on the XO. This is primarily for > English. Looking at the activity c

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-12 Thread James Simmons
will welcome feedback on my code once I have something good enough to criticize, but I'm not there yet. Thanks, James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: Hey James, I can help you out with this if you want. Your collaboration design sounds fine to me. I did something similar in Colors! whe

Re: etextRead activity and espeak

2009-02-12 Thread James Simmons
text to speech built in. I have always thought that really good support for ebooks would make the XO a Kindle-killer. It would cost less, be readable in sunlight, give you access to thousands of free books, and when you get one a kid in a foreign land gets one too. What's not to like? Sorr

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-11 Thread James Simmons
end some messages to a list of buddies and have them initiate some file transfers. Chat is already doing the first part, I think, and the Read code might be persuaded to do the second. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org ht

Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-11 Thread James Simmons
e to help me figure out how to write the collaboration code for my Activity. I've been looking for tutorials on Telepathy on the internet and haven't found anything that looks like what I need. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel

My git problem resolved

2009-02-09 Thread James Simmons
James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Assembly vs. Python

2009-02-04 Thread James Simmons
es there are on the XO, we probably can't blame too many of them on Python. James Simmons >>> For teaching, remember that Knuth uses assembly. C is an awful >>> lot closer to that than Python, and isn't the XO about teaching? >>> >> Ha, ahat age gr

Gitorious still hanging up on me

2009-02-04 Thread James Simmons
and they look similar when I view them in my user profile, so I have to wonder if there is a problem on the server side and if anyone is trying to resolve it. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapto

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-03 Thread James Simmons
Morgan, This is *exactly* what I was looking for, thanks. As a bonus I can get rid of the "keep" button as well, which is of no use to me. James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 01:21, Wade Brainerd wrote: There might be something in the Sugar Almanac

View Slides is in git.sugarlabs.org

2009-02-03 Thread James Simmons
remember. So I don't know if this is my problem or something to do with git.sugarlabs.org. If you or someone else can steer me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM, James Simmons mailto:jim.simm...@walgreens.com&g

Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread James Simmons
ure out something intelligent to do with collaboration I'll restore it. Is this possible, and how would I go about doing it? Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.1, MOSTLY fixed

2009-01-29 Thread James Simmons
mory than I had available, but there is an install DVD also available so I'm going to try that. Thanks, James Simmons Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list! Could not init fon

Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.1, MOSTLY fixed

2009-01-28 Thread James Simmons
ies to be there, though. In your email you said *some* Activities don't work, and I assumed you meant you were missing etoys. You're doing better than I am, so I have to wonder what you're doing that I am not? Finally, I'd like to thank you and the others who tried to

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-27 Thread James Simmons
eanup[2] copy_reg # cleanup[2] posixpath # cleanup[2] errno # cleanup[2] _abcoll # cleanup[2] types # cleanup[2] genericpath # cleanup[2] stat # cleanup[2] warnings # cleanup[2] UserDict # cleanup[2] os.path # cleanup[2] linecache # cleanup[2] os # cleanup sys # cleanup __builtin__ # cleanup ints

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-27 Thread James Simmons
ll and run your zypper commands again and I'll let you know how it went. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-23 Thread James Simmons
Sugar on either of my Linux workstations, and it has made it difficult to write and test Activities. I considered replacing openSUSE with Fedora but the Fedora live CD seems to need a lot more memory to run than I have (I have 256 meg). Thanks again, James Simmons --- Jigish Gohil wrote

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-22 Thread James Simmons
Jigish, The only thing I ignored deps on *should* have been sugar-activities. However, tonight I will uninstall both RPMs using YAST, then reinstall only sugar and see what happens. I'll let you know. James Simmons Jigish Gohil wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:45 PM, James Si

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-22 Thread James Simmons
e a way to run sugar from the command line and have it run in a window like sugar-jhbuild does? James Simmons Jigish Gohil wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM, James Simmons wrote: 27, i n import telepathy ImportError: No module named telepathy You are missing python

Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-22 Thread James Simmons
gar-jhbuild does. I find being able to run multiple instances of the Sugar environment on the same box very useful for testing the sharing features that all Sugar activities should support. Is there a way to run what you have created this way? Thanks again, James Simmons Jigish Gohil wro

readetexts and viewslides moved to git.sugarlabs.org

2009-01-19 Thread James Simmons
e old repository? Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-19 Thread James Simmons
t also uses a property which a custom setter or getter. This is not allowed I had to compile a bunch of stuff from source to get sugar-jhbuild to work on 10.2 so i did a "make uninstall" on everything sugar-related I compiled. This had no effect at all on the messages I have attached. I&

Re: What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2008-12-16 Thread James Simmons
ing speech-dispatcher. James Simmons Edward Cherlin wrote: > Welcome back. There is significant interest from other organizations > in our use of TTS with text coloring. I have just started discussions > with the Doug Engelbart Foundation, Creative Commons ccLearn, Alan > Kay's V

What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2008-12-11 Thread James Simmons
ot part of that release. I'm well aware of all the other work going on with the XO and I don't kid myself that this should be a priority for anyone, but if someone could bring me up to date on what's happening with text to speech on the XO I

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 33, Issue 54

2008-11-18 Thread James Simmons
knowing its file name. It would help if we knew what your Activity does. James Simmons >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:13:56 +0100 >From: "Aleix Palet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Differents behaviours of my application >To: devel@lists.laptop.org >Message-ID: >

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-28 Thread James Simmons
your documents with using the Journal. An outdated screenshot showing how to do this is in the Wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/1/15/ReadEtextsJournal.jpg James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > there is also the problem that since the journal doesn't let you > specify w

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-28 Thread James Simmons
Read itself. James Simmons >Subject: Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader >To: devel@lists.laptop.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hi James and David, > >I want to track additions and improvemen

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-27 Thread James Simmons
he PDF format than about the Activity. I think Read does about as well for viewing PDFs as anything I've used, but looking at PDFs on a small screen is not that great. When someone gives me a PDF I tend to print it out. James Simmons the page for read_etexts doesn't say what it

Re: X2o Wiki search problem

2008-08-06 Thread James Simmons
ex everything. The MediaWiki docs explain what is needed. It might be easier to rename the Activity. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

2008-08-01 Thread James Simmons
a lot of it for my own Activity. So if the author of Speak can fix that up we might be able to remove espeak without hurting anything much. I haven't tried festival myself, though. Thanks again, James Simmons Hemant Goyal wrote: > Hi James, > > I did explore a few solutions t

Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

2008-07-28 Thread James Simmons
pendencies for OLPC. I haven't tried them. The instructions in the wiki for installing speech-dispatcher are incorrect and out of date. I'm hoping Hemant will update these as well when he is ready. You can read more on the Activities page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/R

Re: running speech-dispatcher as non-root using setuid on XO and accompanying security issues

2008-07-18 Thread James Simmons
the Sugar base classes, etc. anyway. I don't see it as having redundant configuration. I see it as having one configuration specifically tailored for what Sugar needs to do and to be and another which is for all practical purposes completely ignored. Just one man's opinion. Jam

Re: running speech-dispatcher as non-root using setuid on XO

2008-07-17 Thread James Simmons
with dangerous permissions and Sugar Activities should get the benefit of your control panel with minimal work. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread James Simmons
entical standalone Python program did not have the issue on the same computer, but I may yet figure that out. James Simmons Hemant Goyal wrote: > Hi, > > I had written a mail to the speechd community regarding the problems > that James was facing some time back. > _

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread James Simmons
e app containing the same code running under the Terminal. James Simmons Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:46:57AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > >> ...but after I stop Speech I can't get it to start up again. > > > Do the activity logs contain any

Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-14 Thread James Simmons
and its dependencies on the XO. If anyone has ideas on how I can debug this or what the problem is that would be even better. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Journal, Clipboard and activity instances vs. files (was Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac)

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
se it *does* work for kids. Meta data would be fixed so that it persisted across reboots. Journal entries would *not* be made for Activities that don't really need them (Terminal, Log Viewer, etc. The Activity would specify that it did not want to be resumeable). James Simmons Wad

Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
y put other kinds of meta data in there too. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
sent you my non-Sugarized version of Read Etexts. That's what I would modify first to try out the new API, since that's much easier to test than the full version. You could hack on that one yourself. It might save you some time waiting on me. Then I could modify the full Activity and

Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
time you wouldn't do that is when you have a file in the datastore that must not be modified, as in the Read activity. James Simmons Faisal Anwar wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for the feedback. I had two follow up questions for you or > others who are in the know with data

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
on that I could finally show my wife why I've been spending so much time in the basement programming. Thanks, James Simmons Hemant Goyal wrote: Hi Michael, The basic package is ready to use, and a few more Q/A issues as described in the bug report need to be resolved. The major Q

Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
iles from core Read up to now, so I haven't needed any translations to be done. Now that's starting to change, because I've added the Speech toolbar. I'm not sure how to proceed. If anyone wants to try this out they can download it here

Re:Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
* would persist across reboots but metadata currently does not. I think several activities already do this. I wrote a wiki page titled "Beyond Hello World" that covers much the same ground as yours, but I like yours better. Thanks, James Simmons Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:34:43

Re: Read Etexts now supports Text To Speech

2008-06-10 Thread James Simmons
the toolbars in the Speak activity and modifying that. Speech-dispatcher by default speaks very quickly, which I think is the preference for visually impaired people. I slowed it down quite a bit. Somehow or other this needs to be adjustable. Plus I need to get pause and resume working. Ja

Read Etexts now supports Text To Speech

2008-06-09 Thread James Simmons
n the wiki. The Activity page is: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read_Etexts James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] Activities Portal: Proposal/suggestion

2008-05-19 Thread James Simmons
nteresting Activities that seem to be abandoned (Space Wars, DOS Emulator, Spreadsheet, Calculadora, etc). James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:35 PM, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One thing that would help in the short term is to create a page

Re: [sugar] Activities Portal: Proposal/suggestion

2008-05-19 Thread James Simmons
te, but useable) Activities it would give a better impression. The other stuff could be moved to this "Future" page. Statistics on downloads would be great. The "Talk" pages on the Wiki have given me some user feedback, but I wish I had more. James Simmons __

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 27, Issue 108

2008-05-16 Thread James Simmons
Or one I have tried: http://janimo.blogspot.com/2007/12/xubuntusugar-livecd.html I liked this one enough to install it on my hard drive, and I use it for Activity development. James Simmons Message: 9 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:55:00 -0700 From: Steve Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: H

sugar-jhbuild: libnssutil3.so exists, why can't hulahop find it?

2008-05-12 Thread James Simmons
s it can't find this library that is clearly present, and if the problem is one specific to SUSE or not. Everything else in sugar-jhbuild seems to be working. If anyone has ideas on how I could fix this I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks, James Simmons

Re: very simple datastore reimplementation (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-05-07 Thread James Simmons
able media section of the Journal. This doesn't have to be fancy. Something like one of the panes of Midnight Commander (text version) would do nicely. The current system of making everything look like a Journal entry creates false expectations. At least I had some.

What's up with sugar-jhbuild?

2008-05-05 Thread James Simmons
is problem. In the past everything compiled OK even if the end result was not fully functional. I can still use Sugar on SUSE as before, though. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Journal Suggestions

2008-04-30 Thread James Simmons
cult to be careful. I have had an experience where it copied a Journal entry to the SD card and ran out of disk space before the copy completed, and there was no indication of this at all, other than the fact that my Activity didn't work. I had to open the Terminal to find out what wen

Re: Journal Suggestions

2008-04-29 Thread James Simmons
For the thumb drives we might treat them as visitors from another realm, and recognize that they might well contain subdirectories. Same thing for CDs and DVDs. James Simmons >Well, there seems to be two ways to treat a device of type 1. One is >to treat it as an independent entity, whic

Re: Journal Suggestions

2008-04-29 Thread James Simmons
sion. At least I was confused. If these non functional areas were hidden that would help. James Simmons Eben Eliason wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3). Metadata should be saved when the user is loading data from > remo

Journal Suggestion

2008-04-28 Thread James Simmons
I, too have suggestions for the Journal: 1). The Journal should show, as a percentage perhaps, how much disk space is free in the Journal, or in whatever removeable media (SD card, Thumb drive) the user is currently looking at. It should give some kind of warning cue when the disk space is da

Re: Document sharing issues

2008-04-22 Thread James Simmons
another box, but have not had the opportunity to do a test that way yet.) The stream tube code I use was adapted from the core Read activity. Good luck with getting p2p working. That sounds like it would help a lot. James Simmons Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 10:24 -0500

Re: RPMs for speech-dispatcher missing python code?

2008-04-21 Thread James Simmons
ou to know that the python stuff was missing. As for the source RPMs, wouldn't I need a C compiler on the XO to install a source RPM? Your suggestion on dealing with the import problem looks right on the money. Thanks! James Simmons Hemant Goyal wrote: Hi, Yesterday I finall

Document sharing issues

2008-04-21 Thread James Simmons
out my code the latest is in the git repository and I have a page for View Slides linked from the OLPC Activities page. Thanks, James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: >If you get stuck with View Slides, I'll be happy to take a look. > > >The Read activity is definitely on my

RPMs for speech-dispatcher missing python code?

2008-04-21 Thread James Simmons
uot;import speechd" in my app that may not be possible. Or can I do a conditional import, something like: if speechd file exists: import speechd If you have any ideas I'd like to hear them. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list De

Re: How to use Salut?

2008-04-16 Thread James Simmons
g* time to copy a 15 mb or so file, and my theory is that all these debug messages are slowing it down. If you can think of a better explanation I'd love to hear it. Thanks again for your help. James Simmons Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le mardi 15 avril 2008 à 20:32 +0200, Morgan

How to use Salut?

2008-04-15 Thread James Simmons
n#Salut Thanks, James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: >As Tomeu pointed out you can use salut and it is the fall-back for >when you cannot connect to a Jabber server. > >If you want to run your own server, I have posted instructions on the >wiki on installing ejabberd with the requi

Salut based collaboration?

2008-04-14 Thread James Simmons
he second as shown in the document: SUGAR_PROFILE=2 ./sugar-jhbuild run In any case, if I could get the Salut thing working that would be *exactly* the kind of thing that I hope that Morgan would document better. Thanks, James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Jame

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

2008-04-14 Thread James Simmons
vironment? Another point I hope you'll address is the code in the Read activity for sharing. It is full of FIXME comments, yet the Wiki recommends its use as sample code. I'm stuck adapting that code for my own Activities as they are variations on the Read activity. Thanks, James

Re: Sharing behavior in the core Read activity

2008-03-27 Thread James Simmons
a version of Read Etexts that has sharing code. I'd like to be able to do the same with View Slides. James Simmons John Watlington wrote: > > It is a known problem that the Read activity doesn't automatically store > a copy of the shared document in the Journal. > >

Sharing behavior in the core Read activity

2008-03-21 Thread James Simmons
alleged ability of Sugar to update activities in my testing, so I can develop on the xubuntu machine and test on both without passing USB drives back and forth. If someone could improve my understanding of this I'd be grateful. Thanks, James Simmons

Re: Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-20 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, The zipfile.is_zipfile(filename) method solved my problem. I was able to successfully share a Zip file between two computers running my activity. Still some kinks to iron out, though. I'll keep your suggestion in mind for the future. Thanks, James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso

Re: Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-19 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu and Michael, It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the "magic number", not the filename. It seems to do the trick. Thanks, James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008

Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-18 Thread James Simmons
how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when someone shares a file with me? Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Sugar jhbuild problem with compiling farsight

2008-03-18 Thread James Simmons
#x27; make: *** [all] Error 2 *** error during stage build of farsight: ## Error running make *** [33/51] I suppose I could compile an older version of gst base, but before I do I wonder if anyone here has some insight into what's happening and could advise me on

Re: More sugar-jhbuild problems

2008-03-13 Thread James Simmons
Morgan, Thanks much, that should be a big help. James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: 2008/3/13 James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm getting timeouts here at work on both http://sugar.abisource.com and the IP address. Yesterday I was able to bring up a website at sugar.ab

Re: More sugar-jhbuild problems

2008-03-13 Thread James Simmons
y again tonight. Thanks again, James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: I checked the website. The website came up OK, but the file was definitely not there. This was not a problem when I first tried running sugar-jhbuild, so the file or URL must have changed in the last day or so. Hmm, it work

sugar-jhbuild problem

2008-03-13 Thread James Simmons
I think I figured out what happened with automake. I think that while I deleted "automake" form /usr/local/bin I did NOT delete "aclocal" from that directory. I'll try that tonight. The missing abiword file is still

More sugar-jhbuild problems

2008-03-13 Thread James Simmons
able to create sugar-base manually. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sugar jhbuild bug

2008-03-12 Thread James Simmons
nment. I was hoping to get my openSuse box to be that environment, the build sugar-jhbuild on xubuntu after removing the sugar RPMs. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:56 PM, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to set up sugar-jh

Sugar jhbuild bug

2008-03-12 Thread James Simmons
won't have anything workable afterwards, though. I would guess there are a lot of sugar-jhbuild users on this list, and I'd appreciate any suggestions. I can easily uninstall automake 1.7.9, the question is what to do after that. Thanks, James Simmons __

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2008-03-11 Thread James Simmons
ed to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail - -- #1 jdsimmons James Simmons attached ja.simmons at sbcglobal.net #2 #3 ...

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