Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, just a clarification: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 21:41, Yuan Chao yuanc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net wrote: 2GB SD card in my XO, and I have Firefox on it.   I installed the ePubReader plug-in for Firefox.   This runs nicely

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
My understanding is that every time that work on a Webkit backend has restarted, the measured benefits haven't been so big because all the major browser are playing catch up with each other. If someone could clearly articulate the benefits of switching to webkit, maybe we could do it one

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Fox
yuan wrote: BTW, with the rotation bug fixed, I noticed that the Browser (and Firefox) activity do respect the screen orientation such that the cursor keys are rotated. It's also a bit un-natural that the game buttons doesn't rotate the page up/down mappings. However, for 90 and 270

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-12 Thread Yuan Chao
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net wrote: Here are my some minor thoughts. My thoughts about Firefox.   Even if it uses more resources than Midori, it's worth the extra bytes.   I am running Xubuntu (Teapot edition) from a I think so too. Especially that

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:50, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net wrote: My thoughts about Firefox.   Even if it uses more resources than Midori, it's worth the extra bytes.   I am running Xubuntu (Teapot edition) from a 2GB SD card in my XO, and I have Firefox on it.   I installed the

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-11 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I've searched the activities at sugarlabs.org for anything about ePub. The only hit to epub is the Newberry activity, which says it requires FBReader, but a search for FBReader comes up empty other than this reference to it. Where is a sugarized version of FBReader available for easy

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-10 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
Some quick observations on F11 for the XO-1 - Build11. I have applied the Virtual 1200 900 fix from http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9590 and the screen rotate button now works in both Sugar an Gnome. Sugar Desktop mode: I found with this build if I turn off the Radio from the control panel I

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-10 Thread Stanley Sokolow
My thoughts about Firefox. Even if it uses more resources than Midori, it's worth the extra bytes. I am running Xubuntu (Teapot edition) from a 2GB SD card in my XO, and I have Firefox on it. I installed the ePubReader plug-in for Firefox. This runs nicely and allows you to view eBooks in

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-10 Thread John Gilmore
2GB SD card in my XO, and I have Firefox on it. I installed the ePubReader plug-in for Firefox. This runs nicely and allows you to view eBooks in ePub format, which is the up-and-coming open format for books. You can get free ePub eBooks from several free sites, including