Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-08 Thread Gary Martin
On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:24, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: What about a virtual touch keyboard layout? Just wondering? FWIW: I'm pretty sure (check [1] [2]) that Nepali layouts were not part of the Maliit set I was asked to work on for the XO-4 touch keyboard layouts. It's been

Re: XO-tablet development? [Devel Digest, Vol 90, Issue 8]

2013-08-13 Thread Gary Martin
On 13 Aug 2013, at 19:41, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Aug 13, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: Paul wrote: If not, which way the tablet/laptop development team is heading? don't know, sorry. OK, thanks. Hopefully someone that does will care to comment.

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-23 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tom, On 23 Mar 2013, at 08:43, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013 Who: Fabiana, John, Hans, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing 13.2.0 Build 1 on XO-1.75 and XO-4 No sound in TamTam or Speak on 3 out 5 XO-1.75s. Speak hung when saying a sentence,

Re: Is it possible to hack the rotate key?

2013-02-18 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Ajay, On 18 Feb 2013, at 11:12, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to hack the rotate key in XO? I wish to have the following working :: * Press the rotate key. This will rotate the window. * Just after that, have a callback function being

Re: 13.1.0 build 29 for XO-4 released

2013-02-12 Thread Gary Martin
Hi John, On 12 Feb 2013, at 13:58, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 12, 2013 2:43 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 02/11/2013 08:59 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi,

Re: XO-4 not resuming after suspend

2013-02-04 Thread Gary Martin
On 3 Feb 2013, at 22:04, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: jerry wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 09:25 +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I have an XO-4 B1, OFW Q7B14, EC Firmware 0.3.10, os28. It won't resume after suspend, but sometimes it does. I couldn't reproduce the bug, but it happens

Re: Cameras not working on XO-1s

2013-01-30 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Christoph, On 30 Jan 2013, at 20:02, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, another issue we encountered during today's workshop session was that on 3~4 XO-1s the camera didn't work (all machines are running 12.1.0 with the associated firmware). Random

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hacking onto the appearing and hiding of OSK

2013-01-29 Thread Gary Martin
widget target as in Speak/Chat); Some Activity layout re-designs to optimise canvas for when OSK is visible (Speak/Chat are a good specific Activity cases for this). Regards, --Gary On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28 Jan 2013, at 18:33

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hacking onto the appearing and hiding of OSK

2013-01-28 Thread Gary Martin
On 28 Jan 2013, at 18:33, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: ajay wrote: Hi all. A simple solution was found :) I hacked the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hacking onto the appearing and hiding of OSK

2013-01-23 Thread Gary Martin
On 23 Jan 2013, at 15:29, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hi all. I wish to fix the bug, where some activities (Chat, Terminal, Speak for instance) are rendered unusable in the ebook-mode, due to the OSK

Re: Policy for non-responsive maintainers

2013-01-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 10 Jan 2013, at 19:27, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2013 01:52 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Bernie

Re: 13.1.0 development build 19 released

2012-12-17 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 16 Dec 2012, at 22:41, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, On 16 Dec 2012, at 20:49, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: I verified the md5sum and tried a couple of different USB drives

Re: 13.1.0 development build 19 released

2012-12-16 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 16 Dec 2012, at 20:49, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: I verified the md5sum and tried a couple of different USB drives, but after it finishes writing 31019o4.zd, the XO4 throws this out: Blocks/square: 2 Total blocks: 15911 0 36 34 WARNING: The file said

Re: Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Jv, On 23 Nov 2012, at 11:57, RJV jv.ravichand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This looks like a great activity to me. I am unable to find what kind of telescopes (in India) can be used and help to this effect on the downloads page as a Readme would be very helpful. Has anybody used a

Re: Neonode low-level access

2012-11-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Bert, On 8 Nov 2012, at 14:38, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: How can I get at low-level data from the XO-4's touch screen in Linux? I'm thinking of the actual light levels of all the sensors around the edges. Unfortunately not at the moment, as far as I'm aware of (happy to

Re: 13.1.0 development build 9 released

2012-11-05 Thread Gary Martin
On 4 Nov 2012, at 11:08, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: A new 13.1.0 development build is available: http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os9 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.1.0 Thanks Peter. - The some activity updates - XO-4 kernel work for 8787/mwifiex wireless, touchscreen

Re: Maliit ticket location

2012-11-05 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 5 Nov 2012, at 19:29, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, We are currently a little disorganised in our maliit ticket filing - we have some tickets on SL trac, and some on OLPC trac. This isn't really a problem for us, but it is for outsiders; and Michael (mikhas) from

Re: Opportunities to slim down 13.1.0 build file cruft

2012-10-17 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter, On 17 Oct 2012, at 19:40, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Gary C Martin garycmar...@googlelibgweathermail.com wrote: Hi folks, I was just having a dig around in 13.1.0 build 6 for the XO-4 (using GrandPerspective), and noticed that we

Re: 13.1.0 build 6 released

2012-10-14 Thread Gary Martin
On 14 Oct 2012, at 07:34, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Can you see any error in the file /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log? Same here, posted this ticket yesterday: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4031 --Gary Gonzalo On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Hal

Re: Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-13 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tabitha, On 13 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 13 October 2012 Who: Alana, Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha and Tom Rosella: XO-1.5 One Education OS 1.2 (build au248), Firmware Q3C09 with first language Maori and second language

Re: [Techteam] 13.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

2012-10-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter, On 8 Oct 2012, at 07:02, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 Oct 2012 00:41, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 7 Oct 2012, at 23:56, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 Oct 2012 23:17, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote

Re: F18/os4 on XO-1 [Devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 37]

2012-10-01 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 1 Oct 2012, at 06:55, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks. This info help us identify if is related to platform or not, and have a better clue about what can be wrong. This cycle have _a_lot_ of changes, test is welcomed. I hit this a couple of days ago and

Re: 13.1.0 feature freeze reminder

2012-09-28 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 28 Sep 2012, at 01:18, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, Just a quick reminder that we move to bug-fixes-only for 13.1.0 on October 11th which is exactly 2 weeks from now. I have a new

Re: Testing Summary, Auckland - 23 June 2012

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 14 Jul 2012, at 23:52, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Not quite 1 month late, I present for your eduction: Auckland Testing Summary 23/06/12 Who - John, Fabiana, Tabitha, Tom We tested Build 12.1.0 RC 2 (build

Re: [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tom, On 15 Jul 2012, at 12:27, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012 Who: Brenda, Fabiana, John, Nevyn, Tom We tested 12.1.0 build 18 on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 Nolan (XO-1.75): paint - seems ok. Physics: get the strange behaviour at the top of the

Re: Python bindings based on Phonegap?

2012-06-21 Thread Gary Martin
On 21 Jun 2012, at 20:50, Lester Leong wrote: Does anyone know if there are Python bindings based off the Phonegap API, with similar method calls, etc.? I'm developing an HTML5/Javascript activity that I would like to eventually port to Android and other mobile platforms. Having a set of

Re: [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012

2012-06-16 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tom, On 16 Jun 2012, at 12:56, Tom Parker wrote: Kiwi (an XO-1.75): Memorise seems ok. Physics: still has that odd behaviour at the top of the canvas that was reported i think two weeks ago. Rosella (an XO-1.5 does not seem to have the same issue in physics as kiwi. Thanks for noting

Re: [PATCH powerd] audio inhibit support

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, You might also want to take a quick look at what Physics is doing, might not be pretty, but I remember needing to catch more than one event/test to make sure the simulation was suspended correctly across a range of past build releases, perhaps also a case where switching to a desktop

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 26 Mar 2012, at 17:30, Gary Martin wrote: On 26 Mar 2012, at 16:24, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The release is our first combined 12.1.0 / Fedora 17 release, such a small release but represents so much

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread Gary Martin
On 26 Mar 2012, at 16:24, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The release is our first combined 12.1.0 / Fedora 17 release, such a small release but represents so much time by so many people in both OLPC and Fedora in

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-25 Thread Gary Martin
On 25 Mar 2012, at 19:40, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 03/25/2012 07:59 PM, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, On Sun, Mar 25 2012, Simon Schampijer wrote: I have filed the Browse related tickets 11716, 11718 testing on the XO-1.5. My 1.75 does boot until the naming screen but I can not use the trackpad

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Martin, On 21 Mar 2012, at 21:56, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Upgrade online with: # XO-1 olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1.5-31 # XO-1.5 olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1-31 That's obviously backwards :-) -- success/fail reports

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1.75

2012-03-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 21 Mar 2012, at 00:38, Martin Langhoff wrote: Are we there yet? This build brings fixes for two critical camera and Sugar crash bugs. Updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. olpc-update worked well on two different XO1.75s. Fixes (please help us confirm): #11657

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-01-31 Thread Gary Martin
On 1 Feb 2012, at 04:43, Paul Fox wrote: sridhar wrote: We are considering disabling Automatic Power Management because of its impact on collaboration and 3G connectivity. What kind of battery life can we expect from an XO-1.5 with Automatic Power Management disabled as opposed to enabled?

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Dec 2011, at 00:23, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: It's a recognition that no software is bug-free, and that users (especially children) will always find a way to make a system difficult to use. For example,

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-24 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Paul, On 24 Nov 2011, at 15:09, Paul Fox wrote: bert wrote: Today is a sunny day in cold Germany, unlike in the first half of the week. So I took the 1.75 outside. IMHO the auto-off is fine as implemented in os12. Not distracting at all. Someone suggested turning it back on

Re: 11.3.1 build 13 released for XO-1.75

2011-11-23 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Nov 2011, at 17:28, Martin Langhoff wrote: The oh! and one more thing build. An OFW full of goodies, and a kernel that should S/R reliably. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.1/os13/ Before I try and open a ticket, is anyone else seeing the cursor sprite corrupt after

Re: XO 1.75 update

2011-11-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter, On 2 Nov 2011, at 11:40, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: For the past couple of days, the directory: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Everything/arm/os/repodata/ seems to be empty.

Re: 11.3.0 release candidate 4 (build 883) released

2011-10-31 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel,On 29 Oct 2011, at 22:28, Daniel Drake wrote:Hi,We're pleased to announce our 4th release candidate of our new11.3.0 software release.Information and installation instructions can be found here:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0Quick links for those who know which files need

Re: [Testing] 11.3.0 release candidate 3 (build 882) released

2011-10-21 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 21 Oct 2011, at 19:53, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, We're pleased to announce our third release candidate of our new 11.3.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0 Quick links for those who

Re: 11.3.0 build 6 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-21 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sameer, On 22 Sep 2011, at 04:23, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The cows with water pistols, chickens in choppers release. We're into Activity freeze so no major changes there Download from:

Re: 11.3.0 build 5 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Sep 2011, at 09:44, Daniel Drake wrote: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os5/ Thanks Peter. It would be neat if someone can test the olpc-update from build 4 (*not* any previous one) to this one, with sudo olpc-update 11.3.0_xo1.75-5 Not going so well here... Going from build 4,

Re: [Techteam] 11.3.0 build 5 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Sep 2011, at 22:15, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: This last one is interesting – the yum install completes successfully all the usual output to screen, but vim/git/pylint are all 'command not found' Actually

Re: XO 1.75 os4 display

2011-09-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sameer, On 11 Sep 2011, at 02:32, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I installed os4 on a XO 1.75 B1 last night. I see a screen corruption with text on both the GNOME and Sugar sides. Entering text into a textbox in a browser will start corrupting to a point that I can no longer see some

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-08-02 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 2 Aug 2011, at 21:18, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Gary I have tested Physics in XO 1.75 installing the package pybox2d and removing the file Box2D...egg and works ok. Fab. Thanks for re-testing. Have filed myself a ticket to remind me to make Physics check if the system already

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-07-31 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 31 Jul 2011, at 06:15, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Moon: does not start, but with a python error in the activity, must try update it For Moon also check you have the date set to the current time (I have a ticket still open for having it fail more gracefully). Latest release is

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-07-29 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 29 Jul 2011, at 05:34, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hey, no so bad :) The good news first: The following activities starts and works: TurtleArt, Speak, TypingTurtle, Labyrinth, Memorize,Browse, Log, Words, Help, Chat, Scratch, Distance, Finance, Infoslicer, Implode, Terminal,

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 22 Jul 2011, at 21:32, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5. Details of new features, known issues, and how to download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes:

Re: 11.2.0 release notes ready for review

2011-07-21 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Alan, On 21 Jul 2011, at 20:46, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: Hi Gary, Complicated! ;) As to why there is no 'don't save', well a couple of points: 1) the Journal was designed to be a log of activity not just a flat list of saved data files, it would be great to

Re: 11.2.0 release notes ready for review

2011-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Alan, On 21 Jul 2011, at 00:37, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: The idea of the X is not save the entry.. to avoid a shutdown by mistake could add the classic triangle of return ... The final windows may be with 3 options: Triangle: return to the activity (The

Re: [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke, I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email (subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some digging found it had been clobbered as junk email, so not sure who else this may have hit, but thought it worth mentioning. Regards, --Gary On 10

Re: [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke, On 11 Jul 2011, at 16:43, Luke Faraone wrote: On 07/10/2011 10:23 PM, Gary Martin wrote: I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email (subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some digging found it had been clobbered as junk email, so

Re: 11.2.0 release candidate 2 (build 871) released

2011-07-06 Thread Gary Martin
Hi, On 1 Jul 2011, at 12:18, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our new 11.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0 Quick links for those who know

Re: XO-1 touchpad once more

2011-06-13 Thread Gary Martin
On 13 Jun 2011, at 20:36, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: I came across a forum post [1] (last sentence) that remind it me once more the ALPS XO-1 touchpad issue. In all the post os802 builds, OLPC 10.1.x, Dextrose 2x and OLPC 11.2.0, the problem is *considerably* worse eg

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 Mar 2011, at 13:34, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Attached is an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet of my initial testing of activities on a new XO-1.5 All activities started and functioned well. The Only exception being Maze where I could not get the ball to move.

Re: USB Ethernet test

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Jan 2011, at 22:57, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:40:23PM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: Researching on the web, I found this [1]. Basically autoip was causing confusion when making the users to believe that the ethernet connection was _always_

Re: [Sugar-devel] A heads up for the major changes that will appear in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5

2010-12-30 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter, On 28 Dec 2010, at 21:17, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I just thought I would give people a heads up for changes that I'm aware of that are going to be appearing in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5. The big one will be gnome3/gtk3 plus the associated changes that will

Re: XO-1.75 progress

2010-11-11 Thread Gary Martin
Ed, On 11 Nov 2010, at 18:30, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: Bert - No, not at all. Our plans were, and are, to build XO-1.75 laptops with touchscreen support. That's an essential step in our tablet development, we think. That will essentially provide us with a 7.5 4:3 tablet

Re: Sugar on Tablet - On Screen Keyboard

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Narendra, On 21 Sep 2010, at 05:56, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: Is anybody working on Onscreen Keyboard or related stuff on Sugar ? also what is the current status and how I can contribute. We got some success to bring Sugar on ARM tablets[1]. now we are exploring more. need suggestion too

Re: Calculate-33 request for activities wiki update page

2010-09-13 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Frederick, On 13 Sep 2010, at 05:22, Frederick Grose wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Gary C Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Folks, Not sure where this email should be going, but now that the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 and equivalent update pages are

Re: Initial F14 developers-only release for XO and XO-1.5

2010-09-04 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 4 Sep 2010, at 10:24, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: For instance, Read-87 fails to launch on XO-1 os1 (F14) when it tries to 'import evince'. Though the necessary gnome-python2-evince package was not included in the os1 build, when I manually install that package from

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi James, On 11 Aug 2010, at 04:05, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:48:00PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: ... and was also unsuccessful in convincing OLPC to prelink the shared libraries before shipping a release, thus allowing read-only pages to not get dirtied with shared

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Aug 2010, at 18:42, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: gary wrote: P.S. of corse you'll now tell me os850 was also pre-linked (I couldn't see anything about it in the build notes for either os850 or os851), and I'll look silly for trying to test for a difference, confirming my

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Aug 2010, at 01:56, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/10 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: We used to do that, the problem is that we don't control our platform as Google controls Android and you need to make sure that resources that need to be specific of each

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-08 Thread Gary Martin
On 8 Aug 2010, at 01:37, Marco Pesenti Gritti ma...@marcopg.org wrote: On 7 Aug 2010, at 21:08, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: Just killing a random activity is a terrible idea becayse you don't want your product behaving like it's defective; the pop up idea is way more

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity packaging

2010-08-08 Thread Gary Martin
On 8 Aug 2010, at 15:18, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: But the one of core ideas to not use only regular packaging systems (via PackageKit or directly) is having this, natural and desired, scenario for sugar ecosystem: * there is an activity, * several users might decide

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 7 Aug 2010, at 20:01, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: We already readjust the network neighborhood layout on the fly when we switch view. It's funny to see the access points slide around :-) Haven't bothered to keep track of the appearance/disappearance of XO and AP

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] 10 things you should know about Sugar

2010-08-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 3 Aug 2010, at 13:55, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Martin is revisiting whether 'Journal' should be considered a View. I think how 'My Settings' is considered should also be revisited. My problem is that occasionally, due to some situation (which I myself might have

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Martin
, I'll keep my eyes open for possible annotation support. Regards, --Gary --- On Wed, 7/21/10, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
On 20 Jul 2010, at 19:33, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books (IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider deployments that

Re: [Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Jul 2010, at 23:59, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 16 July 2010 10:50, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Under non-sugar environments (e.g. GNOME), myself and Paul are in agreement that in order to change brightness and volume, you should press e.g. Fn+F9 (to

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-06 Thread Gary Martin
On 6 Jul 2010, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 05:26, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:34 +0100, Gary Martin wrote: Just showing the name under the pulsing icon

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-05 Thread Gary Martin
On 5 Jul 2010, at 14:13, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:29 +0200, James Zaki wrote: But could you add a message hint that then dissappear after some seconds ? For example, when you launch, and auto-resume last saved work, a discrete message appears and

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-04 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 4 Jul 2010, at 06:45, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: The down side is that every activity start would be then be two clicks, one to bring up the large dialogue (I like to think of it as a one page gallery), and one for new or resume choice... But that was partly the

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-04 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 4 Jul 2010, at 20:23, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: some current (ongoing) future design changes will remove this issue completely with a full screen screen dialogue for deciding new/resume. One click on a home view activity displays a gallery/journal like display of

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 4 Jul 2010, at 04:32, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: some current (ongoing) future design changes will remove this issue completely with a full screen screen dialogue for deciding new/resume. One click on a home view activity displays a gallery/journal like display of past work or a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-29 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 29 Jun 2010, at 22:25, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Sayamindu, On 17 Jun 2010, at 13:16

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 30 Jun 2010, at 00:18, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: - Ideally something (Gnome I assume?) should trigger the keyboard overlay when you focus on a text field, perhaps with some hints about what the

Re: Cairo's slow rendering on XO-1 (was: olpcgames - mainloop bug help)

2010-06-28 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Wade, On 28 Jun 2010, at 15:10, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: I developed a couple of activities using Cairo that I later ported to other drawing solutions. The possible performance test candidate that sprang to mind when reading Mart's email was the work you put in on the pulsing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing 'share' option from activites that don't know how to share

2010-06-25 Thread Gary Martin
On 25 Jun 2010, at 20:27, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Here is the list - Implode (No comparte en ninguna version) - Paint (No comparte en ninguna version) - Labyrinth Oh joy, interesting, so it's just0.84 that's borked up, Labyrinth is correctly disabling the share feature

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keep confusion -- round N+1

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 09:45, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: After making tests [1] in deployments for start new vs. resume we concluded that the way activity starting works on the iPhone would probably work well in Sugar, too [2]. Hehe, this is exactly the thing you would get with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing 'share' option from activites that don't know how to share

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 16:20, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Talking with the Perú team a few days ago about F11/S0.84 (both on xo-1.5 and xo-1) Teachers and testers were very confused with the 'share' option in activities where sharing does nothing, or is seriously buggy. To

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keep confusion -- round N+1

2010-06-23 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 00:07, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 23 June 2010 15:49, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Continuing on the tradition of Keep confusion, yet again thread http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-April/023440.html I was yesterday in a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 17 Jun 2010, at 13:16, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: [Apologies for the cross-posting] Hello, Thanks to the pointers provided by Peter Robinson, I got the Meego FVKBD (Free Virtual Keyboard)¹ running along with Sugar. A problem with the current FVKBD is that it supports only

Re: multi-touch

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 8 Jun 2010, at 09:53, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: If possible, go for a minimum of 5 touch points capability, which is what Apple has I think. Yes, it would be good to keep in mind a likely use case

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 10 Jun 2010, at 20:53, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 10 June 2010 10:58, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello, with the serial cable Richard gave me, I figured out what's causing a rare lockup during boot which has been riddling the XO-1 since when we moved to F11.

Re: multi-touch

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Jun 2010, at 04:14, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 Jun 2010, at 09:53, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote