Re: [sugar] Status of tamtam

2008-10-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
Philippe Clérié wrote: I am trying to figure what the status of tamtam is outside of OLPC. It's nowhere in Debian or Fedora or Ubuntu that I can find. Anyone has any info? Philippe Hi Philippe, there is the idea of packaging tamtam for fedora but we need someone to do it :)

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] sugar gconf schema

2008-10-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please find attached the sugar gonf schema and give feedbakc about the genera layout. I guess the power one can be made customizable since it is OLPC specific. Some thoughts:

Re: [sugar] Question from Uruguay

2008-10-06 Thread Gabriel Eirea
por que nopuedo entrar activitie como estava antes rough translation: why can't I enter activity (or activities) like it was before (probably written by a kid) Maybe he/she got there by mistake and just wanted to access the Activities page (very popular among kids).

Re: [sugar] Question from Uruguay

2008-10-06 Thread Walter Bender
I agree that it isn't very obvious from the Activities page how to find the Actvities/All page. I can imagine a non-native-English-speaking child not having an easy time of it either. Seems the pendulum has swung pretty far towards G1G1 and away from kids. -walter On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:20

Re: [sugar] Status of tamtam

2008-10-06 Thread Philippe Clérié
Thanks for the info. I am sure I am up to the challenge of packaging it though. But, there is always a first time. :-) Philippe -- The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. Anonymous On Monday 06 October 2008 03:32:52 Simon Schampijer wrote: Philippe Clérié wrote: I am

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-06 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Morgan Collett wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 18:37, 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

Re: [sugar] Question from Uruguay

2008-10-06 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Oct 2008, at 15:27, Walter Bender wrote: I agree that it isn't very obvious from the Activities page how to find the Actvities/All page. I can imagine a non-native-English-speaking child not having an easy time of it either. Seems the pendulum has swung pretty far towards G1G1 and away

[sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-10-06

2008-10-06 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. Peer-to-peer editing: After my call last week for a social-networking site for peer-to-peer editing, I was directed by Joshua Pritikin to the Peer Editing Exchange (http://peeredit.us/). I tried it out and got good and timely feedback regarding my copy (a Letter to the

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:20:04AM -0400, elana langer wrote: Hey Tech Community- I just wanted to give y'all some feedback from my experience in Mongolia. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Please excuse my lay language - it's how i roll. 1) Computers are slow - So I was in a

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-06 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:29 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)

[sugar] [RELEASE] Chat 48

2008-10-06 Thread Morgan Collett
I've released Chat-48, available at: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/chat-activity/Chat-48.tar.bz2 http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-48.xo NEWS: * #8772: Fix journal entry creation in Chat for uri-list (kevix) * Updated translations: tr, si Regards Morgan

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-06 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: these are my personal opinions A feeling I have had all along is that it is not easy for a user to develop a sense of how to use my machine effectively. For instance, the wiki seems to have so much information that the visitor can get overwhelmed. I've tried to help by putting

Re: [sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-10-06

2008-10-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === Sugar Digest === 2. Narrative: Bryan Barry and Michael Stone have initiated a discussion about inadequacies in the Sugar tool chain (See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-October/008863.html and

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-06 Thread pgf
mikus wrote: - First off, every Activity has a 'Name Field' in its top menu. When running any Activity, the user should enter there a short Title to identify the resulting Journal entry from all others. - Then, upon leaving that Activity, the user should reflect on what was

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-06 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:20:04AM -0400, elana langer wrote: This is not a unique experience. This is a culture that lives close to the land. Action- reaction. No one is used to waiting for an computer to load or a bagel

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-06 Thread Mel Chua
The whole concept of Sugar is that the user doesn't need to explicitly save files. They are automatically kept in the Sugar datastore, and are accessed through the Journal interface. [In other words: Don't use the traditional hierarchy of directories to locate the saved file --