Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself) underestimate the importance of narratives b/c we are surrounded | by libraries, online tutorials in our native language, extensive | versions of

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 02:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself) underestimate the importance of narratives b/c we are surrounded | by

[sugar] Need guidance from a Pygtk guru

2008-10-05 Thread Pierre Métras
Hello, I've learnt Python and Pygtk writing the Clock activity (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clock_activity) and I'm now adding a new feature to write the time in full letters to help children learn how to write and read it. The clock has different display modes and the default one is to use a SVG

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 02:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself)

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Walter Bender
Each of us seems to have interpreted Michael's note differently, so perhaps some more clarity of definitions is in order. In any case, my focus was on the assertion that there are no excellent way to manipulate narratives within Sugar. Excellence is the standard we should be striving for and I do

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-05 Thread Walter Bender
CCing the Sugar list. It seems that one of the problems we will be encountering with generic spins is footprint. Even a standard Ubuntu without Sugar was seeming too fat to load from a LiveCD on a Pentium 4 with 256K of DRAM. Although we didn't try it, I expect Fedora would present similar

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Walter Bender
You should only need an index.html file that points to your PDF. html meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=file:///home/olpc/Library/[bundle name]/[PDF name].pdf /html In the library/library.info file, there should be an activity_start entry as per: activity_start = index.html In theory,

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Oct 2008, at 17:48, Walter Bender wrote: You should only need an index.html file that points to your PDF. html meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=file:///home/olpc/Library/[bundle name]/[PDF name].pdf /html In the library/library.info file, there should be an activity_start

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-05 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CCing the Sugar list. It seems that one of the problems we will be encountering with generic spins is footprint. Even a standard Ubuntu without Sugar was seeming too fat to load from a LiveCD on a Pentium 4 with 256K of

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Philippe Clérié
Thanks! That worked. But there are a few problems. I don't mind so much the extra clicks necessary to install the xol, but everytime I click on the bundle's name in the Browse activity, it _downloads_ the file. If the file is already on disk why the extra downloads? Next, the Reader activity

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Philippe Clérié
Given the annoying behaviour of the bundle that seems like a good idea. But I did like the idea of integrating the pdf with the browser library stuff. The idea was to distribute school manuals in pdf, each as a xol bundle and have the children download that. Before trying the procedure, I

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Walter Bender
There is a discussion thread about how to best handle PDF files here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2008-October/000847.html The problems you have identified are exactly the ones being discussed. There are three basic issues: downloading extra copies; the need to open through the

[sugar] Question from Uruguay

2008-10-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Could someone respond to this: por que nopuedo entrar activitie como estava antes at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Bert%27s_script I don't speak Spanish ... - Bert - ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] Question from Uruguay

2008-10-05 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello Bert On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Could someone respond to this: por que nopuedo entrar activitie como estava antes at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Bert%27s_script I don't speak Spanish ... - Bert - I'm not sure what