Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many other high-priority things to be working on. Is there really a lot of demand for this from the field? -walter On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M. Schwart

Re: Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-23 Thread Walter Bender
Michael, First, thank you for launching this discussion thread. It is important to get our heads out of the trenches on occasion, even if everyone is overwhelmed with the details of the day-to-day task of getting 8.2 out the door. I have to echo the point made by Martin: in fact, despite no livin

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Bender
I don't think anyone would argue that we need better tools for software development on the XO. There has been a latent Develop activity in the works that occasionally gets a boost from the community (want to jump in?). I would argue that a bigger stumbling block than problems with Sugar and "interp

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Bender
> instead of just turtle programs and gooey smalltalk... Cannot let this one slip by uncommented on. Etoys is one place where kids are doing real programming, as a means of achieving fluency about many powerful ideas, not just syntax. But I unaware that children have made contributions to Squeak y

Re: Calling all small keyboards

2008-07-25 Thread Walter Bender
I left my Sinclair in the 1CC conference room. It probably qualifies as well. -walter On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are looking for examples of keyboards for small children > present before 1993. > > Specifically, we are looking for keyboards w

Re: Terminals

2008-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe the console is enough? -walter On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity > is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it c

Re: Terminals

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
really what I was asking: what dependencies do we have for Sugar/X in normal admin tasks that require root? thanks. -walter On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Walter Bender wrote: > >> Curious as to what occasion

Re: activity bar

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
not sure what the difference is between an installed activity and a custom activity. -walter On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Victor Lazzarini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure which logs. I can see all the installed activities but > none of my custom ones. > > Victor > > At 14:51 01/08/2008,

Re: Terminals

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
Why does it matter that you cannot adjust the screen brightness from the console using the special keys? You can adjust it from Sugar without root access. The idea was to understand what limits we'd face using the console for root access instead of a special terminal activity. What are the Sugar/X

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-08 Thread Walter Bender
> The bottleneck is in the XO hardware that all of the tests run on (and > the number of tests we choose to do), rather than in hardware that we > can upgrade. I wonder if there is some way to parallelize this across multiple XOs? Not ever XO running every test? Presumably multiple XOs are not the

Re: Sugared Wine project begins

2008-08-08 Thread Walter Bender
I'm including the Education list in a hope we can get some feedback as to what class of MS-Windows programs are a high-priority. I cannot imagine Word would be high on the list, but there are undoubtedly many applications people are looking for... -walter On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, John Gilm

Re: [sugar] new 8.2.0 beta joyride - upgrading via control panel ?

2008-08-11 Thread Walter Bender
Not surprisingly, my experience on different machines with different versions of joyride and different collections of activities installed is that it is very inconsistent. Sometimes it just works, but often times, it gets hung on one or two activities, e.g., for a while, it would get stuck on Brows

Re: joyride version announcements

2008-08-20 Thread Walter Bender
> That's right, would people be interested in hearing about each failed build? No. -walter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 2323

2008-08-22 Thread Walter Bender
> + Windows XP suspend/resume support Huh? -walter On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2323 > > Changes in build 2323 from build: 2322 > > Size delta: -0.65M > > -totem-mozplugin 2.23.4-1.olp

Re: [sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread Walter Bender
What about the Activity manuals? -walter On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Brian Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam, Cynthia > and myself) for the Sugar / XO manual to (hopefully) be included on > the XO for G1G1. > > Make all

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread 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? None of these would adversely impact the color-ID scheme.

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0 I don't know if there are similar hacks for improving general performance of Flash (or Gnash) on lesser-powered

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

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
You can add anchors to pages in the wiki, so you could do Activities#X -walter On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ver

Re: Peru and Microsoft announcement

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
Jim took over my weekly community news digest for OLPC. It tends to have a lot of information, not necessarily actionable, about deployments. Alas, it tends to be more cheer leading than anything else, where as the technical content has some depth (or at least pointers to some depth). -walter On

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

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
> (Actually, Sugar will also find > any nearby Macs running Avahi, but doesn't quite know > what to do with them.) Chat between Bonjour clients works today. So the XOs know some things to do with a MAC. -walter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-20 Thread Walter Bender
t;>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0#Activities >>> >>> Please create a new test case for any activity that needs one. >>> >>> To do that, go to this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Form:Test_case >>> and entering Tests/Activities/nameofactivity to create a new test

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-20 Thread Walter Bender
^is^are^ :) On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of > the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These > collections have been vetted and tested extensively and

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-20 Thread Walter Bender
I am curious: do we have a taxonomy of the various applications we are expecting to see. Has there been a characterization of the problem we are trying to solve? The Gimp, which is a mess in any wm, seems to be the only example of a lots of floating little windows application anyone ever mentions.

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-21 Thread Walter Bender
PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Walter Bender wrote: > | (I run SKYPE in Bert's X Activity > | without a problem.) > > The principle goal of this discussion is to make the X Activity > unneces

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-21 Thread Walter Bender
PROTECTED] >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>&

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-21 Thread Walter Bender
t;intermediary"; keep Sugar "simple".] > > mikus > > ___ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > Put any complexity into the "intermediary"; keep Sugar "simple". +1 -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-23 Thread Walter Bender
ver. > > For what it's worth, it is also my impression. I have heard similarly > from virtually all technically-oriented parties involved. I have heard > echos of this from less technical users (e.g. teachers who are confused > by the beha

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-24 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:16:25AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >> Could you please elaborate on what the behavior of the Journal has to >> do with this thread? >> >> -walter >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-24 Thread Walter Bender
relatively low priority relative to these other inconsistencies. -walter On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> We all agree that the datastore needs serious attention,

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-09-26 Thread Walter Bender
ts-0.02-3.olpc3 > Thabit-fonts-0.02-3.fc9 > #8635 Issues with update from 656 > sugar-update-control 0.15 > > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-09-28 Thread Walter Bender
> So UI changes that help make this clearer will probably be a good idea > for a 9.1 ... :-/ There was an early sketch of a mechanism similar to the old Home View circle, where there was a space allocated to each open activity proportional to the amount of memory it was consuming. In any case, it

Re: [sugar] Another pass through some basic Activity test results

2008-09-28 Thread Walter Bender
Gary, this is a very helpful analysis. Thanks. Arjun, I wonder if Measure isn't exceptional in regard to when it is not in the foreground. I can imagine wanted to log data while doing other things: It isn't clear it should go idle when not visible. My naive guess would be to assume that a timer wer

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
aking key... > >John > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-30 Thread Walter Bender
ldn't be > such a gulf in performance. Flash is detecting and using > hardware assist on the Classmate, but isn't happy with what > it finds on the XO. > > wad > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org &

Re: "Walter Bender": Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-02 Thread Walter Bender
e > support costs required to process and answer all the queries about > developer keys. And we'll reduce the infrastructural costs of managing > the generation of the keys. > > Erik > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

new project hosting request: infoslicer

2008-10-06 Thread Walter Bender
r own. There is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail - -- #1 walter Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2 #3 ... I

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Walter Bender
es cover > 90+% of all of them: > > 1. files to and from a FAT-formatted USB stick > 2. files to and from a wifi SMB share > 3. email attachments in and out > > -- > Gary Oberbrunner > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@list

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-08 Thread Walter Bender
hand)!! -walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > marco pesenti gritti wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > CCing the Sugar list. > > and adding devel. > > > > >

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread Walter Bender
ment, > - collaborative user interface, > > etc > > Regards, > > Tomeu > ___ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread Walter Bender
;> >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> I prefer "the Sugar learning platform" >> > >>

Re: getting mp3 sound working w/ Gnash easily

2008-10-11 Thread Walter Bender
--- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC as Project of the Day at FOSS.in

2008-10-14 Thread Walter Bender
rs > would have collab in mind as they wrote their next app. > >John > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlab

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-14 Thread Walter Bender
> -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Fwd: Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Walter Bender
forgot to reply-all -w -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Tagged Journal Proposal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haven't had a chance to review the talk note yet, but one observation based on Pau

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Walter Bender
Where can we host this? > > We should specifically not use the wiki for hosting the actual > downloads. Downloads from the wiki are slow, and place a lot of load > on it. > > Regards > Morgan > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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

2008-10-23 Thread Walter Bender
es to provide its own view source window. It could be done by > adding one more D-Bus method or by adding one more property to > activity.info. Inconvenient: adds complexity to activity development. > > Opinions? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > ___

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-25 Thread Walter Bender
a 52 seconds improvement, but I'm pretty > sure that Sugar already got quite leaner (measured 15MB of mem less > after booting) and faster and there's still plenty of room for > improvement. > > Cannot wait to have F10 joyride images to compare 8.2 to something > closer t

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread Walter Bender
the latter half of the morning for UI/design. Scott, it'd be great if you could join us. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Localization] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-11-15 Thread Walter Bender
ndu.randomink.org/ramblings] > ___ > Localization mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations

2008-12-12 Thread Walter Bender
ystem. For more explanation, see > <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html>. > > ### Media Contacts > > Brett Smith > Licensing Compliance Engineer > Free Software Foundation > +1 (617) 542 5942 x18 > > > ### > ___ > GNU Announcement mailing list > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Greg Smith Over and Out

2009-01-08 Thread Walter Bender
lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-21 Thread Walter Bender
{{OlpcBug|2837}} Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu) > * {{Bug|145}} Prevent object chooser appearing when joining a shared session > > === browse === > * use cjson instead of json (nirbheek) > * new translations > > === chat === > * use cjson instead of simple-json (nirbheek) > *

Re: Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
ast he > won. > > -- > James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Su

Re: Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
that said, it is an interesting exercise to try drawing letters with the Turtle. -walter On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Turtle Art portfolio, which will become the new Turtle Art, has a label block. > > -walter > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:38 PM, James

Re: Testing summary - 31 January 2009

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
with packet sniffer. > > Thanks everyone! > > Kind regards > Tabitha Roder > > (64)21482229 > > Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
; Where could I go and get a linux image that will just run on the OLPC. There is a stock Fedora image available. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC > If I went to a traditional Linux distro could I do GTK UI's in C/C++ > on this machine? Yes. > > > > > Thanks for any help on what is really an off topic post > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > &

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

2009-02-05 Thread Walter Bender
hen sharing is maintained upstream from Sugar, we all win... until then, we need to keep pounding away at the Sugar bits. >John > > http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html > _______ > Devel mailing

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Walter Bender
service. > > I hope you can help me. > > Thanks!. > > > > -- > Jorge Saldivar > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Walter Bender
be stop sharing because they finish their mini game and > the two player return to the corridors of the club and they are free to > enter in another room to start another mini game. > > Answer you question? > > Thanks > > -- > Jorge Saldivar > -- Walter Bender Sugar L

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

2009-02-17 Thread Walter Bender
e multiple copies of this if you are subscribed to more than >> one list. I will get several copies myself. > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

2009-02-17 Thread Walter Bender
> Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Walter Bender
; never been tested w/ jhbuild.) > > In the mean-time, let's start updating http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow with > what you learn so that it becomes easier for others to assist. > > Michael > > P.S. - Let me know where more help is needed and I'll be happy to try

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread Walter Bender
which shows what the XO hardware can do in animation. After that > probably I will use the lessons learned to optimize GCompris and PyGame > because currently they look like Powerpoint presentations... So the > whole point is to work fast on a physical XO hardware. Of course if > somebod

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-06 Thread Walter Bender
> Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-07 Thread Walter Bender
We do support a similar mechanism to what was in place on w.l.o. I'll get it set up. -walter On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Bastien wrote: > Walter Bender writes: > >> I tried it (from Ubuntu instead of F10) and it seems to work >> "flawlessly"!! I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final

2009-03-08 Thread Walter Bender
> -- > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > End of Devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 18 > * > > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-09 Thread Walter Bender
n, though help >> is needed to further polish it. > > I just added a french translation. > > It would be nice to have a page on the SugarLabs wiki listing the pages > that need to be translated.  Shall I open it? > > -- >  Bastien &

Re: [Olpc-france] extend the memory flash space with an SD card to build open80211s

2009-03-14 Thread Walter Bender
...@laptop.org >> _______ >> Olpc-france mailing list >> olpc-fra...@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-france >> >> >> > > > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

2009-04-08 Thread Walter Bender
Thanks, > Tom Boonsiri -- OLPC GoldenState > (tom.boons...@gmail.com) > _______ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

2009-04-08 Thread Walter Bender
e packaging gurus can chime in. >>>> (See http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/155). >>> >>> So the sensors are the ones that can get plugged into the audio >>> input/output on the XO? Is this custom to the XO or could be >>> conceivably be implemented/used on other audio cards? >>> >>> Peter >>> >> > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems with soas

2009-04-20 Thread Walter Bender
t; ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC upgrade from build 656 to latest stable build 767

2009-04-28 Thread Walter Bender
el mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: application for project hosting: PhoneticExplorer

2009-04-29 Thread Walter Bender
tion commits > to be made >   [ ] Translation arrangements have already been made at ___ > > 12. Notes/comments: > > > Thanks... > Will someone please let me know if project hosting is no longer supported? > > Lars > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [laptop.org #39401] application for project hosting: PhoneticExplorer

2009-04-29 Thread Walter Bender
lease change the obsolete, misleading text at > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting > >> If you're looking to start an OLPC-related project, we are happy to host >> your code. Someone from OLPC should probably take that initiative. There is a reference to Sugar hosting

Re: Logistics, and school identification.

2009-05-04 Thread Walter Bender
UUIDs... > >> How does this line up with XS plans? > > Quite reasonable :-) > > cheers, > > > > m > -- >  martin.langh...@gmail.com >  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >  - ask interesting questions >  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first >  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Journal contents disappearing

2009-05-09 Thread Walter Bender
ailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

2009-05-16 Thread Walter Bender
not being discussed/decided here. BTW, it is great to have occasional face-to-face meetings. It is a high-bandwidth medium of exchange. But our decisions are made in public forums. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

2009-05-16 Thread Walter Bender
I'll ask Adam, the OLPC employee who is at the meeting. He may know. -walter On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 08:48 -0400 schrieb Walter Bender: >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Christoph Wickert >> wrote:

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-06-01 Thread Walter Bender
earthed design that im aware of is that >>>> the >>>> power supply easier(cheaper?) meets EMC/FCC regulations. >>>> >>>>> I hope future XO versions will still have the same broad power >>>>> input >>>>> specs as the XO-1. It's been very useful already (e.g. cable-only >>>>> "car >>>>> adapter", no voltage conversion or even voltage limit necessary). >>>>> >>>>> CU Sascha >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ___ >>>>> Devel mailing list >>>>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>>> ___ >>>> Devel mailing list >>>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>>> >>> >> ___ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-13 Thread Walter Bender
n Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities (was Re: ASLO Suggestion)

2009-06-17 Thread Walter Bender
, separate* pages such as Activities/8.2 >> and/or Activities/G1G1/8.2 , see >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update .  Those subpages are where >> "known good version" info must live for Software update to work, while >> other activity pages are mostly useless out-of-date cruft. M

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread Walter Bender
ght?  (SoaS > includes the software updater, so we shouldn't break it by removing > those pages before there's an ASLO equivalent.) > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball   > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.su

Re: issue with snapshots from command line via gstreamer

2009-06-19 Thread Walter Bender
e the last one. > > -- > Richard Smith   > One Laptop Per Child > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org __

Re: new content bundle

2009-06-19 Thread Walter Bender
nning a different language?  Maybe it doesn't work in other >> languages. >> >> This feature doesn't work in Sugar Labs releases, >> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/574 filed. (My understanding is Sugar >> Labs plans unification of library and Journal and/or a

Re: Boomingbang project- err BAD ZIP FILE

2009-07-07 Thread Walter Bender
b. Cheers:) > > -- > Abhishek Indoria > Head > Phoenix Team A bit more context please. How are you installing which .xo bundles onto what version of Sugar? -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Boomingbang project- err BAD ZIP FILE

2009-07-07 Thread Walter Bender
think it is 8.2.0. Thanks in advance:) cheers. > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: user-space XO hardware detection

2009-07-10 Thread Walter Bender
__ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Testing summary - 18 July 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-07-18 Thread Walter Bender
ample keys. > Further information from m_stone. Happy to test further next week. > > Walter Bender requests tests of turtleart-55: found that on > wiki.laptop you get version 44, on sugarlabs.org you get version 55 > from the top right hand activities link but version 51 from the > acti

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread Walter Bender
sn't really move us forward. Let's learn > our lessons for the future and get back to work. > > Christoph > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > co-editor, olpcnews > url: www.olpcnews.com > e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com > _

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:53 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:37:44AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >> More seriously, I don't know if it is possible, but getting Nicholas >> to stop making a "scrambled egg" out of the software stack with his >&

Re: Sugar as operating system

2009-07-21 Thread Walter Bender
ease, with Sugar as an > option, will take an order of magnitude less software work, if > those lessons have really been taken to heart. XO-1.5 is less work because we did all that work for XO-1, not because Sugar is an option. Still, fine-tuning power management, networks and the like on the XO-1.5 is going to be hard work for the Fedora team (or the Windows team). What does Sugar have to do with it? >        John -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-27 Thread Walter Bender
a 1K cluster size. > With larger cluster sizes, there are several factors of two of headroom > - and large clusters are not a problem for /boot, which tends to contain > mostly large files. > > > > ___________ > Devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Need Help: usb drive not visible in the journal

2009-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
rds, > sumit > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-14 Thread Walter Bender
x.org.au/ > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Is Project Ceibal violating the GNU General Public License?

2009-08-24 Thread Walter Bender
will, and can tell modified from unmodified software.  Please let > me know what is really happening in the schools of Uruguay. > >        John Gilmore > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Is Project Ceibal violating the GNU General Public License?

2009-08-25 Thread Walter Bender
Let me investigate further, because the response to my query was as I quoted below. Clearly there is a miscommunication somewhere within the Ceilbal organization. -walter On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrés Ambrois wrote: > On Monday 24 August 2009 10:11:54 am Walter Bender wrote: >&g

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
______ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
ortcuts), gaining you an extra ~40 vertical pixels of canvas > space. > Not to mention that many (most) toolbar items have keyboard shortcuts. Edit certainly does :) -walter > > Regards, > --Gary > _____

Re: [Sugar-devel] Alpha release - Deducto and Color Deducto activity

2009-10-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dan Krejsa wrote: > Hi, > > Cool game! It really ought to be called 'Inducto', though. I said the same thing to Jon Orwant, the author of the original version :) -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http:

Re: Developing Applications on Sugar

2009-10-29 Thread Walter Bender
e useful to me please don't hesitate to send across. I hope this > post is in the right group, if not please let me know where to post it. > > Regards, > Janus > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.

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