Re: How does record activity the camera in Sugar?

2007-09-05 Thread Erik Blankinship
forget to say. In the Nand flash image is 542. But I use USB whose image is 515 to boot, has the same event. Luna -- *From:* Erik Blankinship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:02 PM *To:* Luna Huang (黃綉玲) *Cc:* devel

Re: How does record activity the camera in Sugar?

2007-09-05 Thread Erik Blankinship
The first command will run the camera data directly to the xv image sink via gstreamer (a video application framework used by the Record activity). We can diagnose where the problem is better when we see the result of this test. The second command will run a test pattern directly to the xv image

Re: #3631 HIGH First D: Need fullscreen mode

2007-09-26 Thread Erik Blankinship
On 9/26/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik - You have implemented this floating button in Record. Do you have insight into how this would be done and/or how hard it would be to do in this context? Thanks! We use a gtk.Window to float our maximize button over the live video.

Re: ip4-address buddy property - still needed?

2007-10-30 Thread Erik Blankinship
While I welcome the new activities and think it is great to integrate them into sugar, can we reconsider completely doing away with the dev console? It is /very/ useful to have the console open on an xo while the activity you are debugging is running behind it. Can't you have both the old console

Re: New joyride build 173

2007-10-30 Thread Erik Blankinship
I apologize if I missed the announcement on how activities get into the various new builds. In the past, we would assign trac tickets to J5. What do we do now? On 10/30/07, Build Announcer Script [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Erik Blankinship
On 12/11/07, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of the XO. Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so it's not a great demo for video playback. We bundle the Ogg Theora codecs, and Browse can play

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Erik Blankinship
Does Erik's transcoding mechanism work to get it out of RV format? I don't believe there is a real component for a gstreamer pipeline. You would want to use the highest quality originals anyway. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: LOLPC

2007-12-15 Thread Erik Blankinship
... and in a similar vein: http://cfrey.us/~erikb/ODDPC/ On 12/15/07, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 1:14 AM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://live.laptop.org/~krstic/lolpc.jpg It had to be done. One Laptop Per Cat! --scott --

Re: downloading all .po files?

2007-12-21 Thread Erik Blankinship
- let me know - and I'll send you the tarball. I'll probably try to come up with a better system soon, which lets you download the tarball without manual intervention. Thanks, Sayamindu On Dec 21, 2007 11:38 PM, Erik Blankinship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Thank you for organizing

Re: T-Mobile Hotspot access?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Blankinship
If we've recycled our shipping box already do we call brightstar or fedex or olpc or who to get our reference number? I can't seem to find it in any emails, but maybe I am not looking in the right place. -- Erik On 12/26/07, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah thank you. It the

Re: Cerebro: Scalable presence information

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Blankinship
eXcellent name choice! On 12/31/07, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing Cerebro - http://cerebro.mit.edu Cerebro is a scalable, light-weight protocol that allows 802.11b/g devices to form a mesh network. Cerebro has the following advantages: - It provides

Re: empty po files

2008-02-06 Thread Erik Blankinship
On 2/6/08, Jani Monoses [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, building the calculate activity for Ubuntu I noticed it failed because the th.po file is empty. Reported here http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6357 Is there something in the software that does the automated imports of translations, that

Re: Items for update.1 RC3

2008-02-12 Thread Erik Blankinship
Record-52.xo http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4525 If it is approved, Record-53.xo http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6417 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Record app in joyride 1927 has problems

2008-05-05 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The record app still does not respond as I expected. It powers up, but it used to show live video from the default display. Now it just snaps a picture as it is powering up and shows me that. This is

Re: [sugar] Sugar Almanac Update - Using Pango, Internationalization

2008-07-17 Thread Erik Blankinship
I've also written up an updated set of steps to internationalize your activity based on the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_i18n and my own experience getting text to translate. I think Faisal's url is: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internationalization_in_Sugar

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/8/14 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There isn't an api for activity authors; however /home/olpc/Library (like /home/olpc/Activities) and subdirs are world-readable, so there probably should be. Yes, that might

Re: Sugar activity development (record)

2008-08-24 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erik I'm reaching out to Sugar (OLPC) activity authors and maintainers to find out where things are at, and to try and improve communication in the development community. We have some information to get out such as

Re: Feedback on Measure (was Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results)

2008-09-28 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Sep 2008, at 19:31, Arjun Sarwal wrote: 2008/9/26 Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's a set of basic Activity test results for build 8.2-763, hope the ASCI art doesn't get too mangled by the list

Re: Feedback on Measure (was Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results)

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Blankinship
Do you need to do that for each window? Why don't you just listen for that signal in just the main activity window and stop everything when gtk.gdk.VISIBILITY_FULLY_OBSCURED and resume when otherwise? Full screen modes in Record completely obscure the main activity window. We don't just

Re: [sugar] Another pass through some basic Activity test results

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Blankinship
In Sugar, there's always one and only one active activity. You can see which it is by looking at the icon below the XO in the favorites view or by looking at the selected activity button in the top frame. This is the activity that will be brought to the front when you go to the Activity zoom

Re: [sugar] Feedback on Measure (was Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results)

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Blankinship
Is there any particular reason why Record does not use a single window? Record's GUI overlays widgets on top of video windows. This is how we create the picture in a picture effect (using XV in a window) and also how we add the fullscreen toggle button. GTK doesn't play well with

question about bad cairo performance on the olpc xo

2010-09-02 Thread Erik Blankinship
I need help understanding why I am getting very poor frame rates when I use pycairo to move a large image around the screen on an olpc XO. When I use pycairo to draw a rectangle of the same size on an XO, I get great performance! This is confusing to me because in my experience on other

Re: Script to install missing langs?

2010-10-18 Thread Erik Blankinship
Yet, do we really need a copy of the english catalog for each existing en_XX variant? It seems like a big waste of space. Where does a sugar activity developer specify that they've made an activity in english? Wouldn't you need that information before you cull?

gstreamer, XV, and Automatic Power Management conflict

2010-10-29 Thread Erik Blankinship
[quoted below is a bit of conversation between myself and the helpful James Cameron on sugar-devel regarding resuming gstreamer video playback from a paused state] If I pause a video in either the record or jukebox activities and wait about 20 seconds, then just moving the mouse causes the

Re: gstreamer, XV, and Automatic Power Management conflict

2010-10-29 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: ... I suggest the bug may be due to a conflict between Automatic Power Management and the XV component of the X server

prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-09 Thread Erik Blankinship
Is there a way to prevent a sugar activity from being rotated when there is a screen rotation event on an olpc-xo or other hardware which support screen rotation? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread Erik Blankinship
for View Slides to see how I do that (or look at Read SD Comics which does the same thing but is simpler). Screen rotation is a useful feature of the XO. Your Activity should be able to deal with it gracefully. James Simmons On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com

acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Blankinship
On a dual-boot XO, does it make sense to use the same binary code for sugar activities also in gnome applications? If so, are there guidelines or example acti-plications? If the same binary code is *not *re-used by both platforms, but just the same code base, are there guidelines or examples of

Re: [Sugar-devel] acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Blankinship
The gnome side will most likely be installed via RPMs (or .deb files on Ubuntu/Fedora setups). So your Sugar app could just use the libraries, binaries and resources/assets from the RPM. Examples - Write.xo uses the Abiword libraries. Browse.xo uses xulrunner (the Firefox libraries

Re: [Sugar-devel] acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: If my acti-plication has dependencies that are not part of the underlying build, do I need to install them on the gnome side first

Re: [Sugar-devel] acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

2011-01-19 Thread Erik Blankinship
Let's assume delivery of the activity-application is via a usb stick. Let's also assume the video game has 200mb of assets. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to install the activity-application once, from either side, and to put the assets in one place. For sugar, this would be a

Re: [Sugar-devel] acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

2011-01-20 Thread Erik Blankinship
Am I correct that sugar and gnome can co-exist in two different ways right now? 1. On a dual boot machine, probably an xo, where activities are installed into /home/user/Activities/ where useris probably *always *olpc 2. Sugar as an application in gnome (within a Xephyr window) where activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2011-01-26 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bakhtiar Mikhak mik...@mediamods.comwrote: The specific practical considerations on the XO to which I was referring has to do with the documented bug with xvimagesink and UI rotations. Even with the rest of the UI designed to handle rotations gracefully, this

about about my xo

2011-03-03 Thread Erik Blankinship
Is there a way for a sugar activity (and gnome) to query the version and build information which is displayed in about my xo in the sugar control panel? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: about about my xo

2011-03-04 Thread Erik Blankinship
...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 03 2011, Erik Blankinship wrote: Is there a way for a sugar activity (and gnome) to query the version and build information which is displayed in about my xo in the sugar control panel? The way I'd answer this is by: * finding out where the about my xo

Re: Possible XO Graphics Optimization Technique

2011-04-01 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.orgwrote: Hello all: As many of you are aware, work is being done to improve the graphics performance of various XO laptop platforms. So in an attempt to improve things further, I looked into optimizing the data Sugar sends

Re: WebM format for Record

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Blankinship
I do know that one thing that needs to be fixed is the preview image shown while the recording is being encoded is displayed in greyscale instead of color. A note on this point from Eben: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2585#comment:10 Busy Indication: When Record is switching modes,