Gtk3 Hackfest, Praha 2011, news updates

2011-09-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, two major changes have recently occurred in Sugar's underlying technologies. Firstly, GTK+ 2 has been obsoleted by GTK+ 3, and GNOME is now based on GTK+ 3. Secondly, PyGTK, the underlying Python library that Sugar uses to call into GTK+, has been deprecated in favor of PyGObject

Re: Light sensor on XO-1.75

2011-09-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Paul Fox's message of Tue Aug 30 16:38:13 +0200 2011: yes, it's a nice trick. i think it was discussed on this list last year. it's not very sensitive, but it can tell us the difference between full sun and not, which is really when we'd want to turn off the backlight. Given

New tool for tracking L10n commits

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear All, One of the things that can be confusing is keeping track of whether a given PO file that has been completed has been committed by the language admin or not. Activity developers can see this relatively easily by looking at the commit log for their specific activity, but when you want to

development environment

2011-09-02 Thread Kevin Gordon
Hi: I may have some access to a couple of university students who are interested in doing some python development, using the XO 1.5. In order to build a couple of boxes, I'd like to pre-install 'the right stuff'. Might I get a list of packages to install to accomplish this? Like maybe yum

Re: Light sensor on XO-1.75

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Fox
sascha wrote: yes, it's a nice trick. i think it was discussed on this list last year. it's not very sensitive, but it can tell us the difference between full sun and not, which is really when we'd want to turn off the backlight. Given that turning off the backlight usually isn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] New tool for tracking L10n commits

2011-09-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 02.09.2011, at 15:57, Chris Leonard wrote: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/pootle-commits Please note that because eToys is hosted in it's own repository, this system will not report commits from eToys at the moment. Pootle commits for Etoys are sent to

[PATCH openfirmware] ARM initramfs loading fixes

2011-09-02 Thread Daniel Drake
Fix a stack underflow in linux-place-ramdisk which was eating 'adr' in calculation. Don't append a root=/dev/ram0 argument if using an initramfs. The document suggesting this is outdated. The kernel will boot from an initramfs if it is present regardless of a root= parameter, and our initramfs

Re: [Sugar-devel] New tool for tracking L10n commits

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Leonard
Bert, Would it be possible to limit what gets sent to http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/pootle-commits to only those commits made by user Pootle? I do not want to flood the list with every eToys commit, only those from user Pootle. In addition, Aleksey modified the subject coming from git to

Re: New tool for tracking L10n commits

2011-09-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 02.09.2011, at 18:14, Chris Leonard wrote: Bert, Would it be possible to limit what gets sent to http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/pootle-commits to only those commits made by user Pootle? I do not want to flood the list with every eToys commit, only those from user Pootle. It

Re: development environment

2011-09-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: For Python work on an XO (for Activity and/or Sugar hacking) I find all the extras I need from a regular build is to yum install git, vim and pylint — usually the first habitual reflex thing I do after reflashing a