Re: [sugar] GVFS, OLPC, and GIT ?

2008-04-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Alexander Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:27 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:46 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[sugar] creative commons and licensing in sugar

2008-04-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, would like to apply soon the work that CC has been doing about licensing in the journal. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creative_Commons Eben, are you aware of how this affects the UI and agree with that? Thanks, Tomeu ___ Sugar mailing list

[sugar] Sugar Emulation

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bresee
I recently set up a sugar emulation on my PC and i was wondering about the diffrent successes, ideas and trouble other people have had with it. Also has anyone been able to create something really ool to work with the emulator or through the emulator? I have a few questions: 1. I have found

Re: [sugar] New Activity Proposal -- Your voice on XO

2008-04-07 Thread Alex Escalona
Hi Josh, Thanks again for corresponding with me regarding this proposal. I actually have not had a chance yet to get my hands dirty with espeakeditor, or any of the voice-building components in the interface, for that. I do understand that it is something that can be done with a standard PC

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Add palettes to activities in list view

2008-04-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Looks good to me. Though: +Palette.__init__(self, None, None, primary_text=activity_info.name, + icon=activity_icon) Do we really need the two None? I hoped we could just make those default to None in sugar.graphics.Palette... Marco

Re: [sugar] A Sugar TODO List, of Sorts

2008-04-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Forgot to add my items: - Implement search in the activity list (needs specs) - Implement sorting in the activity list (just name and date?) - Implement installation date in the activity list - Execute the correct version of the activated bundle (patches pending discussion) - Transfer missing

Re: [sugar] PenTablet user interface

2008-04-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Best would be to create personal trees for sugar-toolkit and Paint: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_personal_git_tree But you would need an account in dev.laptop.org for that. You can ask to Henry Hardy (our sysadmin) in a similar way to project hosting requests:

[sugar] Typing Tutor: LetsType Update

2008-04-07 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
Hello Everyone! I have updated some sections of my proposal and it might sound interesting. Please refer: *Features* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LetsType#Features_of_.E2.80.9CLetsType.E2.80.9D *Future Developments* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LetsType#Future_Development Any feedback/suggestion is

[sugar] scrollbar arrows

2008-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Looked at the ePals activity. On my G1G1, the screen text it presented was offset. The only means available to me to center the text was to drag the slider within the horizontal scrollbar. In typical Linux windows, the scrollbars have arrows at their ends. By clicking on these, the material

Re: [sugar] scrollbar arrows

2008-04-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
It's currently omitted in the Sugar theme. Eben can comment on the reason of that choice... Marco On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked at the ePals activity. On my G1G1, the screen text it presented was offset. The only means available to me to

[sugar] Issue Resolved: Emulated Sugar XO Communications

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bresee
Just letting you know that my previous question about communication between XOs and Emulators has been resolved. In order to set up a group just go into terminal activity and type *sugar-control-panel -s jabber xochat.org.* Then just reset it and enjoy talking to other people. (xochat.org can be

Re: [sugar] scrollbar arrows

2008-04-07 Thread Eben Eliason
I'm going to attempt to greatly abbreviate a response on a topic that has seen its share of conversation by noting 3 things: an argument for the omission, the proposed solution, and a temporary solution. 1) The arrows at top and bottom of the scrollbars were left out because, in most cases, they

[sugar] UI for working on it

2008-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The recent talk on Sugar about notifications reminds me that the OLPC currently appears to lack easy-to-check I'm working on that feedback to the user. Combined with Sugar's a single screen for whatever one is doing philosophy, this serves to HIDE what is going on from the user. I had

Re: [sugar] Fixing the Pen Tablet

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I've heard that the tablet is enabled is in recent joyride builds. Is there a build that has it that would be particularly good to try out? And how does the tablet mapping work? Does it control the core pointer, or is it accessed as an XInput device? I'm really interested in trying this out, as

[sugar] Copy/Paste icon colour (Re: A Sugar TODO List, of Sorts)

2008-04-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 7 Apr 2008, at 20:00, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: • Color copy/paste buttons in activities Which colors should take? Just the local colors? I've always been unclear about the purpose of this, and have not seen an explanation – always thought the coloured icon looked out of place in the

[sugar] project idea - any takers?

2008-04-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
I admit this kind of (very) late, but here is a project idea that I would love to mentor: Depending on your coding skills you could write a small activity to abstract the process of writing simple network applications that involve various hardware parts of the laptop (sound card, camera,

Re: [sugar] project idea - any takers?

2008-04-07 Thread Kim Hawtin
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: I admit this kind of (very) late, but here is a project idea that I would love to mentor: Depending on your coding skills you could write a small activity to abstract the process of writing simple network applications that involve various hardware parts

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-04-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Apr 2008, at 16:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What if on rollover would appear a normal palette with all the buttons that would be in the subtoolbar? This palette would have an option for pinning it, and that would mean inserting a subtoolbar between the toolbar and the canvas like in the