RE: Regarding mapping tables for nepali. (Prabhas Pokharel)

2008-04-06 Thread Bryan Berry
Prabhas Pokharel wrote: Just wanted to make sure that you guys know about the work that has been done for nepalinux and associated project by this organization in Nepal (http://madanpuraskar.org/). Rabi is working closely w/ the team at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) on the keyboard to make

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:55AM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: The SystemBus is used for communication between processes that belong to different users. By default, /etc/dbus-1/system.conf says ...Deny everything then punch holes Why do we forbid the default user (olpc) by

Re: [sugar] Summer of Code update : applications so far, and thanks

2008-04-06 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Finally, to stimulate discussion, below are a few applications that deserve more feedback and mentor attention. 2 points: 1. A lot of these are not on the wiki, or were not in the [[Category:GSoC proposals]]. I've rectified that for the ones I could find, but I'd really like to read some

Re: fake X11 input driver?

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: the xorg.conf file on the XO has no traditional stanzas for pointer and keyboard. this means there's no place to put options for things like ctrl:nocaps or emulate3buttons. is there a way to get the equivalent functionality some other way? (i've tried xmodmap, with no

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-06 Thread Ryan Crawford Comeaux
I'm not very concerned about FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) being spread by providers of a competing operating system. The inclusion of GPS data into the system would be purely optional and currently and the XOs do not have GPS capabilities. A software implementation COULD be put in the

Re: [OLPC-GSoC] [sugar] Summer of Code update : applications so far, and thanks

2008-04-06 Thread Bobby Powers
Thanks Homunq (Jameson?) especially for the GSOC category maintenance. I think I am in the same boat as you - I've gotten some feedback already but would like to be included on the list for some more especially since I've rewritten most of it in the past few days to focus more on development of

Listen and Spell Update

2008-04-06 Thread Assim Deodia
Hi All, Based on SJ's comment I have updated my wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell. I have given the implementation details of the Dictionary to be used in the activity. Can someone comment on its feasibility in XO? I have an another idea to implement the Dictionary. Saving all

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-06 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I don't want to rain in anybody's party, but sadly the matter of a GPS related to the OLPC project has already become a matter of uninformed attack. This is obviously a dissatisfied person's conspiracy theory, and I feel embarrassed to even repeat it, but Mr. Olivera of Argentina is telling