[sugar] July 21, Sucrose 0.81.5 Tarballs Due

2008-07-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Dear maintainers, the next development release is tomorrow the 21th July. Please provide source code tarballs by the end of tomorrow for the following modules: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap#Glucose_Modules http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap#Glucose_Modules

Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity

2008-07-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Shikhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to use threads in my activity. However, the UI locks up while the thread runs. Actually, it is somewhat strange what happens: the thread is already initialized and running, waiting on a Queue for a work

Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity

2008-07-20 Thread Erik Blankinship
Here is some code which runs multiple threads successfully on an xo. Look for ServerThread: http://mediamods.com/public-svn/map-activity/Map.activity/map.py On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Shikhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to use threads in my activity. However, the UI

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-20 Thread Bobby Powers
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works quite well here in a MP with last joyride. Just did some light testing, though. I've also tested it (lightly) on 3 machines running Joyride ~2170. Tomeu On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL

Re: [sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for not answering, Hmm? Both Tomeu and me answered. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016914.html http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016951.html and not updating the API doc, The

Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity

2008-07-20 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi Shikar, You might want to look at how James Simmons uses threads in his ReadEtexts Activity to do speech synthesis using a thread too.. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/readetexts;a=blob;f=ReadEtextsActivity.py;h=c8c7086a4dd9448a2f81b96150dcb551c6d5d217;hb=HEAD Around line 56 or so...

Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity

2008-07-20 Thread Shikhar
Thank you for all the replies, I fixed the problem by simplifying things a little, the code examples helped :-) ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 17.07.2008 um 07:37 schrieb Bert Freudenberg: Am 17.07.2008 um 00:10 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: Marco has added a session manager to Sugar (in 8.2.0) that takes care of telling activities to save their work because the

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-20 Thread Brian Jordan
+1 for ring view... but as an every-activity-on-your-computer ring, rather than by default having nothing shown, by default have every activity shown. On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can I get a quick +1/-1 on this question related to

[sugar] Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:40, Bobby Powers wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works quite well here in a MP with last joyride. Just did some light testing, though. I've also tested it (lightly) on 3 machines running Joyride ~2170. Tomeu On Sat,

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 for ring view... but as an every-activity-on-your-computer ring, rather than by default having nothing shown, by default have every activity shown. You should never have nothing in the ring by default. If you reproduced

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-20 Thread Alexander Ortner
+1 for the ring (i am new to open source, so please be patient with me) i know this question doesn't really belong here, but: why was the sugar UI changed? can i find a discussion about this anywhere? the new version lost the frame, didn't it? at least it'S not there in my sugar jhbuild env.

Re: [sugar] Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread John Watlington
Take a look at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ XO_Troubleshooting_AV#Errors_communicating_with_the_camera The majority of these problems are due to a latch on the flex cable connector coming loose. If you disassemble the laptop, and find that it was due to another source, pleased either add it

Re: [sugar] pulsing icon code move from sugar to sugar-toolkit?

2008-07-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) whether anyone thinks this is too invasive to get in to Sucrose 0.82 / OLPC 8.2.0; and Yeah, it sounds too invasive to me, I'd rather put some good thinking and land it in the next release cycle. What user visible

[sugar] Trac workflow

2008-07-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I noticed several inconsistencies in the way we deal with tickets, which makes working with trac harder than it should be. Here is an attempt to describe the workflow from the Sugar point of view: 1 Developer looks for the first time at a ticket. If the problem is obvious, switch action

Re: [sugar] pulsing icon code move from sugar to sugar-toolkit?

2008-07-20 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:45:16AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) whether anyone thinks this is too invasive to get in to Sucrose 0.82 / OLPC 8.2.0; and Yeah, it sounds too invasive to me Just to point out:

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 20.07.2008 um 14:14 schrieb Alexander Ortner: +1 for the ring (i am new to open source, so please be patient with me) i know this question doesn't really belong here, but: why was the sugar UI changed? can i find a discussion about this anywhere? the new version lost the frame,