Re: [Sugar-devel] Clocks on XOs

2010-07-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Fri, 02-07-2010 a las 20:15 -0700, Hal Murray escribió: Is that one of the old XOs that had troubles with the tiny battery feeding the TOY/RTC clock when the main battery and wall power are both disconnected? I forget the details, but I think there was a problem with the battery

MANIFEST pointlessness

2010-07-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Fri, 02-07-2010 a las 15:54 +1000, James Cameron escribió: A fascinating meaning of the word MANIFEST that I had not previously encountered. That sounds like an INVENTORY. What's the point of a file that is automatically generated? None, this is why I removed it. IIRC, the original

Re: [Sugar-devel] Clocks on XOs

2010-07-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 03-07-2010 a las 09:54 -0400, Bernie Innocenti escribió: Likely so, but the software should be able to compensate for it. After discussing it on IRC, it seems that olpc-update-query should automatically update the clock from the OATS server. I checked: olpc-update-query only sets the

NetworkManager time sync

2010-07-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Dan, we don't have any way to synchronize the clock on the XO... I'd rather avoid running ntp all the time as it wastes 2MB of RSS. Does NetworkManager provide a service to automatically call ntpdate when the interface goes up? -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs

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

2010-07-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
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 new blank template My observation - on the XO, there is a

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] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
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 point, no one here could agree on a new or resume default behaviour, so