Re: Clipboard Notification

2008-04-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Eric, 2008/4/14 Eric Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When an activity launches it brings up an instance of the notification icon in the activity tray. I'm trying to make it so when someone copies something instead of it popping up the frame for a second it shows a pulsing notification icon in the

Re: Clipboard Notification

2008-04-14 Thread Eben Eliason
in the activity tray. I'm trying to make it so when someone copies something instead of it popping up the frame for a second it shows a pulsing notification icon in the top left hand corner. Just a notethe notification for a clipping is supposed to appear in the lower left corner, not the

Collaborative Activity Development

2008-04-14 Thread Morgan Collett
(Excuse the cross-post, but I don't know whether activity authors are on the sugar list, which I presume is the more appropriate list for this topic in future...) I'm now working for OLPC, on improving activity collaboration. If you are developing an activity and have/intend to implement

Re: Clipboard Notification

2008-04-14 Thread Eben Eliason
I am a believer in show notifications where the user is looking, not off in a corner somewhere: When an asynchronous notification occurs, the user should NOT be taken away from what he is doing. Absent a bell, the simplest alert I can think of is to flash the screen once (change its

Re: Clipboard Notification

2008-04-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Personal note: Been running the new look Sugar/Joyride for a while. [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.] I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left hand corner -- but I think that is an

Re: [sugar] Clipboard Notification

2008-04-14 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Personal note: Been running the new look Sugar/Joyride for a while. [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.] I've now trained myself to notice

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

2008-04-14 Thread James Simmons
Morgan, I am one of those people developing activities that make use of collaboration. I'm pleased to see that someone has been charged to make that easier, especially through better documentation. My Activities are Read Etexts and View Slides. Both make use of code adapted from the Read

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

2008-04-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:30 PM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morgan, I am one of those people developing activities that make use of collaboration. I'm pleased to see that someone has been charged to make that easier, especially through better documentation. My Activities are

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

2008-04-14 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Interesting. Does the presence information from each instance ever leave the machine's network card? Pol Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:30 PM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morgan, I am one of those people developing activities that make use of collaboration.

Salut based collaboration?

2008-04-14 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, In fact I *have* been running multiple instances of Sugar-jhbuild on the same box for test purposes. This is much more convenient than using two machines, especially since the Xubuntu machine's RPM's are out of date so Read sharing doesn't work at all. I have the two instances as

Re: Collaborative Activity Development

2008-04-14 Thread John Gilmore
Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now working for OLPC, on improving activity collaboration. This is great! The best thing OLPC could do to improve activity collaboration is to get it working for ordinary programs -- running on the X Window System, or on MacOSX, or Windows. Why

Re: Collaborative Activity Development

2008-04-14 Thread Bobby Powers
yes, this looks like a great start! I'm just getting my feet wet with development (got sugar-jhbuild working today! ;), and was wondering if anyone has had experience, or examples, of software on regular laptop collaborating with an XO? Is this even possible, and if it isn't then is there a way

Re: Collaborative Activity Development

2008-04-14 Thread Jim Gettys
John, We really would like to get the Sugar UI components running on vanilla Linux desktops, and the apps all interoperating Help greatfully appreciated... - Jim On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 13:02 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

Re: Collaborative Activity Development

2008-04-14 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/04/2008 am 13:02, ysgrifennodd John Gilmore: Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now working for OLPC, on improving activity collaboration. Tying collaboration to Sugar is a losing strategy. Once the rest of the world figures out that *their* programs should be trivial to

Re: cat-leases script to join leases files

2008-04-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached you'll find a trivial script to concat-and-sort various lease files. This makes life easier for regional teams that deal with various shipments. Usage: cat-leases.pl */lease.sig all_leases.sig Ok,

Re: PEAP Configuration on OLPC

2008-04-14 Thread John Watlington
Is this really the best answer we can come up with ? I was serious about having to do this to 1500 machines next week, and hopefully millions in the future... wad On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: You can use about:config in recent builds:

Re: PEAP Configuration on OLPC

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
In Update.1 the user.js is inside rainbow managed directories and afaik he path is not predictable. You could add the proxy prefs to /usr/share/hulahop/prefs.js (note the use of pref there instead of user_pref). Marco On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:55 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-14 Thread Martin Dengler
In the course of updating[1] sugar/view/devices/battery.py to look like Eben's new design[2], I wasn't able to come up with a satisfactory way to calculate remaining battery life. Can anyone opine as to whether it's possible/feasible right now to estimate number of minutes of battery power

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-14 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Can anyone opine as to whether it's possible/feasible right now to estimate number of minutes of battery power remaining? You could look at gnome-power-manager, which performs a principled estimation -- a matrix of previous discharge rate intervals indexed by the charge at the time

Re: [sugar] Clipboard Notification

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Burns
While trying to create an instance of NotificationIcon() in the _object_added_cb function in clipboardtray.py I couldn't get the path to the icon from the ClipboardIcon() instance because it isn't set until _object_state_changed_cb is called. Is there a way I can get the path to the icon? On

Re: PEAP Configuration on OLPC

2008-04-14 Thread John Watlington
Thanks, Marco! Abdel, let us know if this works for you. wad On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: In Update.1 the user.js is inside rainbow managed directories and afaik he path is not predictable. You could add the proxy prefs to /usr/share/hulahop/prefs.js (note the

fun and games with trying to un-suspend

2008-04-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
G1G1, approximately Joyride 1858. No wireless. Have done 'touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend' When I pushed the power button briefly, the XO suspended. Wanted to un-suspend the XO. But no matter what I pushed on the keyboard (or front), the power LED lighted up briefly (about three

Re: [Server-devel] [sugar] sugar roadmap

2008-04-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Dubroy wrote: | On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Another option would be to create a version of Sugar that