Re: [SoaS] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac)

2011-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 09:07 +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Raffael Reichelt raffael.reich...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Caryl! 2011/11/20 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com now is the time to try SoaS! I need to be able to test it on both the Windows

[SoaS] Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap

2011-12-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Solstice greetings, I have just created the page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Project_sitemap . When I was very new to Sugar I spent quite a long time getting my bearings. It seems there are now some 75 pages to Sugar on a Stick! This page starts off as a maintenance tool. It

Re: [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap

2012-03-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Update. It has been some time ... but I have made some progress on this page. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Project_sitemap . Regards, Iain aka inkyfingers ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

2014-04-08 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 20:54 +, Sam Parkinson wrote: Hi, I think we need to make a really simple tutorial and put it on the wiki home page. Just something with the link to the iso and lots of screenshots :) I might have a go on the weekend. Or maybe we could try to make and

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

2014-04-14 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 23:07 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 20:54 +, Sam Parkinson wrote: Hi, I think we need to make a really simple tutorial and put it on the wiki home page. Just something with the link to the iso and lots of screenshots :) I might

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

2014-04-16 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
install. hdd install is good for using an old spare machine, but I think that the philosophy of a child having their very own learning environment by a USB stick is one I would like to try to make more easy for new sugar learners. Iain Sam On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i

[SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Thank you for all the work put into this new version of Sugar on a Stick. In brief testing, Sugar on a Stick prepared on a USB stick with Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4.iso seems to run mostly as expected. Help is not available from any tested Activity's icon in the Frame. Help 17.2 does not

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
/honey/Speak/Speak-48.tar.bz2 Gonzalo On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Thank you for all the work put into this new version

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-22 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Ok, that confirms the .xo is ok, can you uninstall the activity again, and install the activity using the rpm? The rpm should be named sugar-speak Sorry, Gonzalo, I am not sure what source of .rpm you are suggesting I should try

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-22 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: can you uninstall the activity again, and install the activity using the rpm? The rpm should be named sugar-speak I am unfamiliar with the process, and (over-) aware of time constraints. Working on SoaS, in Terminal Activity, I was

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-23 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The folder bot/ and its contents were not in the Speak.activity folder. I deleted /usr/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity/ I re-installed Speak by importing speak-48.xo with a USB

Re: [SoaS] Portfolio and Read - Testing Sugar Activities of Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-TC3

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 06:23 +0100, Jean THIERY wrote: Le 24/11/2014 04:18, James Cameron a écrit : [snip] *Problems may be due to labels in accentuated languages* (?) I have showing on my Home View, List Read 114 Get Books 14 Both are running fine. I changed language to French. From

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 19:15 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The folder bot/ and its contents were not in the Speak.activity folder. I deleted /usr/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 12:28 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 19:15 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The folder bot/ and its contents were not in the Speak.activity folder

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
and gave acceptable answers to five questions. Iain Gonzalo On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 12:28 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 19:15 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v11 beta 4 : tests with activities INCLUDED in the standard distribution

2014-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 22:32 +0100, Jean THIERY wrote: WRITE-95 === *Write* quits if we try to pronounce a selected text with the text-to-speech icon. Bonjour Jean, In Write-95 I have *Write* quits if we try to pronounce a selected text

Re: [SoaS] Write-95 with Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-TC4

2014-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 15:52 +0100, Jean THIERY wrote: Hello Iain, Le 25/11/2014 09:58, Iain Brown Douglas a écrit : On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 22:32 +0100, Jean THIERY wrote: WRITE-95 === *Write* quits if we try to pronounce a selected

Re: [SoaS] Write-95 with Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-TC4

2014-11-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
sessions where there was success and failure. Iain On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 15:27 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 15:52 +0100, Jean THIERY wrote: Hello Iain, Le 25/11/2014 09:58, Iain Brown Douglas a écrit : On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 22:32 +0100, Jean THIERY wrote

Re: [SoaS] Write-95 with Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-TC4

2014-11-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
) and try to reproduce the problem. Do not use files you already saved on the journal, start with new files. Let me know if you can confirm the problem is solved. Gonzalo On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: I do not know why I

Re: [SoaS] Write-95 with Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-TC4

2014-11-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
, Iain Gonzalo On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Thanks Gonzalo, Is certainly an improvement. I did not see the inserted page break issue at all. Copy, seemed to copy

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-TC4.iso

2014-12-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Sorry I'm not in position to download another .iso now. I saw it for first time last night, and it persisted after upgrade. I guess I could try again in about 10 hours. Sorry I can't do more. Iain From Huawei mobile. Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Please confirm if the error

[SoaS] Testing SoaS Rawhide, F22, Sugar 0.103.2

2015-02-09 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi, thank you all for another great version of Sugar, which I have tested briefly. Test image: Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-rawhide-20150207.iso Test environment: a) LiveUSB, written with dd [image is too big for a CD] b) USB stick written with livecd-iso-to-disk Results seem same

[SoaS] SoaS Loader, trouble making an Edit toolbar

2015-03-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi all, I liked the idea of having an Edit toolbar [1] in SoaS Loader [2]. On the road to SoaS Loader I am toying with home made Sugar-Tutorial [3]. I tried lifting {some} Edit toolbar lines from Browse, but the current ones looked more promising copied/derived from Terminal Activity. However I

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:02 -0800, Thomas Gilliard wrote: On 02/26/2015 07:08 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Hi all, I have been making a presentation with the instructions and screen shots to make Sugar on a Stick. I have written up my progress so far on [1] and placed three screen

[SoaS] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi all, I have been making a presentation with the instructions and screen shots to make Sugar on a Stick. I have written up my progress so far on [1] and placed three screen shots here [2] [3] [4]. A previous working title has been Sugar Stick Builder. I cannot find a one or two word title

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 07:10 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 04:58:35PM +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Loader I like, thanks. Yes, that sounds good. I guess one of my blocks has been that SoaS makes perfect sense in the present context, but as a optional Activity

Re: [SoaS] Errors from Soas 29

2019-01-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 10:28 +0100, Samson Goddy wrote: > Yes, we did. Upgraded metacity and Sugar, also made changes to the > ~/profile.py > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 10:26 AM Peter Robinson wrote: > > Have you applied all the latest updates to Fedora, a number of > > issues have been fixed with