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
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
;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
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
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,
.
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
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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different server the next time it happens. Thanks,
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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
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
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
_
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'm sending this to this mailing list because I am not subscribed to
Sugar Developers. Let me know if there are any problems.
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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,
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
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
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'
sh working
this weekend and take it from there. Thanks again for your help.
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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:
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
mage in Browse or the
ImageViewer there was an keep error when closing the activity."
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k I'll get them both working.
Thanks,
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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
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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
ure out something intelligent to do with
collaboration I'll restore it. Is this possible, and how would I go
about doing it?
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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
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
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
ll and run your zypper commands again and
I'll let you know how it went. Thanks,
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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
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Jigish Gohil wrote
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
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
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,
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Jigish Gohil wro
e old repository?
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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&
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
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
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:
>
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
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
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
ex
everything. The MediaWiki docs explain what is needed. It might be
easier to rename the Activity.
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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
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
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
with dangerous permissions and Sugar
Activities should get the benefit of your control panel with minimal work.
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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.
>
_
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
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.
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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
y put other kinds of meta data in there too.
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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
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
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
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
* 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
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
n the wiki.
The Activity page is: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read_Etexts
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nteresting Activities
that seem to be abandoned (Space Wars, DOS Emulator, Spreadsheet,
Calculadora, etc).
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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
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
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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
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
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.
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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.
>
>
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
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
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:
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how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when
someone shares a file with me?
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#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
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
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
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
able to create
sugar-base manually. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks,
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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
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I'm trying to set up sugar-jh
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.
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