Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-22 Thread John Gilmore
The second thing is basic UI usability. The pop-around menu border makes the UI thoroughly unusable with the trackpad http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4910 covers this issue and more. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that Update.2 should be about 3 things: 3) Performance 2) Performance 1) Performance Mechanisms to achieve those performance goals are worthy candidates for a talk! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ )

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
I sense that this is gonna be a looong thread C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that Update.2 should be about 3 things: 3) Performance 2) Performance 1) Performance Mechanisms to achieve those

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Is still the plan for Update.2 to be about the most urgent needs from the deployments? Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is still the plan for Update.2 to be about the most urgent needs from the deployments? Perhaps I wrote the call for papers too narrowly. Certainly every stable release will continue to include fixes for pressing

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread NoiseEHC
Could somebody answer these questions? 1. What is the status of zlib - lzo transition in jffs2? 2. What is the status of the new X architecture? (The name is DRM but I am not sure.) 3. What is the status of the shared page python stuff? Will the reference count problem will be solved in Python

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody answer these questions? 1. What is the status of zlib - lzo transition in jffs2? 2. What is the status of the new X architecture? (The name is DRM but I am not sure.) 3. What is the status of the shared page

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread NoiseEHC
It is the problem that every page will be modified (and so copied) if it contains a reference count so the metadata effectively cannot be shared. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-September/006617.html Also mentioned in (point 9.)

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hmm, yesterday I executed free after launching some activities and got this results: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004650.html Am I very wrong to think that we can save 3.6MB per python activity instance? Tomeu On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:21 PM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Bryan Berry
Mitch Bradley wrote: I think that Update.2 should be about 3 things: 3) Performance 2) Performance 1) Performance I second that. Update.2 should be about optimizing Sugar and its dependencies, not adding new features. My 2 cents. -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal,

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is still the plan for Update.2 to be about the most urgent needs from the deployments? Scott - what's the release naming scheme? What will the bugfix release post update.1 be called, versus the next feature release?

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.03.2008 00:30, John R.Hogerhuis wrote: I'd agree with Mitch. Performance, or for us, UI responsiveness, the most visible and painful issue being start up time of applications is paramount. My 4-year old, with no cushy performant computer experience, loses interest in the 10 seconds+ it

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.03.2008 02:09, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if Windows runs faster ... once somebody has a child-friendly UI for Windows You are going from if to when with absolutely no support from

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! Update.2 Mini-Conference

2008-03-21 Thread david
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, John R.Hogerhuis wrote: I'd agree with Mitch. Performance, or for us, UI responsiveness, the most visible and painful issue being start up time of applications is paramount. My 4-year old, with no cushy performant computer experience, loses interest in the 10 seconds+