Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 23:25, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: Some have expressed concern about Browse and its current xulrunner dependency (http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1850). To make matters even worse for the future, Mozilla plans to get rid of XPCOM at some point in

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 18:10, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Sean DALY

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 18:10, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Rita Freudenberg
What's the reason that Etoys isn't part of the bundle anymore? Are there any technical problems? We do not expect the Sugar developers to fix them. I do like Tomeus suggestions below very much. Rita Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 22.03.2010 um 10:35 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso

[IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-22 Thread Parichay Parivesh
hello Can any one giude how write text in flap connector in Etoy . Its very very urgent -- Kinds Regards Parichay Parivesh +447503433720 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-22 Thread Alan Kay
Everything in Etoys is made from a single kind of basic object. They can all be attached (embedded) in any other object. First, make a flap, then open it by clicking on the tab, and simply drag a text object into the flap and drop it. Cheers, Alan From:

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 18:10, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Martin Langhoff

Re: [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Thomas
To get a flap hit CTRLW (on Macintosh CMDW). This will bring up the World menu. Then click on flaps... which will display the flaps menu. Then click on make a new flap You can now drag text (and any other objects) onto the flap. Stephen On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Alan Kay

Re: [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Also see http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-529 - Bert - On 22.03.2010, at 14:08, Steve Thomas wrote: To get a flap hit CTRLW (on Macintosh CMDW). This will bring up the World menu. Then click on flaps... which will display the flaps menu. Then click on make a new flap You can now

Re: [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Thomas
Parichay, FYI, just to be clear, it seems from your email you were creating a Button Flap from the Object Catalog. This flap has different properties from the About flap you see on the Etoys home page in that it acts as a Parts Bin The Button Flap allows you to drag objects onto it, so that when

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
I would like to add to this that the activity developer is at least CCed on bugs in Fedora so they can more actively see the issues with their activity and react to the bugs. Where my activity developer hat, this would be very useful. I suspect that at least some of the non-responsiveness of

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to add to this that the activity developer is at least CCed on bugs in Fedora so they can more actively see the issues with their activity and react to the bugs. Where my activity developer hat, this

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:11, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: This is where you start is definitely the message that should be pushed. Also a Install and update Activities control panel which uses PackageKit would make it much easier to automatically find and install Activities as

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:24, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:11, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: This is where you start is definitely the message that should be

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar 0.88 release --- status update

2010-03-22 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, we are 10 days away from the 0.88 release [1]! We are currently in Hard Code Freeze, which means that no source code changes can be made without approval from the release-team. Translation and documentation can continue [2]. See as well [2], on how to request an exception for your show

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I found this wiki page so far https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/XPCOM_and_Binary_Embedding I should have a chat with the Mozilla people anyway, that page may not be entirely up to date. From this discussion: 1) Performance tests of recent webkit and xulrunner on XOs and other hardware SoaS runs

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
FWIW, at litl we are switching from a xulrunner-based brower to a chromium-based browser. We are seeing a big performance improvement, plus it's making it easier for us to implement plugin isolation and better memory management (unloading pages which are not foregrounded, etc). YMMV, and it's

Re: [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-22 Thread Cherry Withers
I was helping Parichay the last few days and for the life of me could only find two flaps under the Object Catalog: button flap and connectors flap. I find out today from him that in order to add a text flap you have to press ALT , . It's like finding an Easter egg! Hoping that this text flap

[IAEP] Review this activity

2010-03-22 Thread Parichay Parivesh
Hello, I have created an activity to teach 3-5 years old kids different mode of transportation, it designed for XO laptop. I have used etoy for scripting. I have upload in squeak show case and I am send the link as well http:// squeakland.org/launcher/?http://squeakland

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: FWIW, at litl we are switching from a xulrunner-based brower to a chromium-based browser.  We are seeing a big performance improvement, plus it's making it easier for us to implement plugin isolation and better memory

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-03-22

2010-03-22 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. LIBREPLANET was this past weekend. It was held that the Harvard University Science Center and drew a large crowd of FLOSS movers and shakers. RMS was there. He spoke about the risks that Software as a Service poses to our freedoms. I unfortunately missed John Gilmore's talk,

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread John Tierney
Hello All, In wanting to have Teachers and Developers try Sugar are best bet may be to attack this with a two-fold approach. The idea would be to give the prospective Teacher/Deployer Two SoaS-A stable version-say Strawberry explaining exactly what Sugar Labs means by Stable. Then the