Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-21 Thread Carol Lerche
Please have a look at http://www.gimpshop.com/ which corrals the gimp windows to have a more wm friendly face. On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The X Activity is pretty straight forward. But it does not integrate the Sugar copy/paste/theming etc. The

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-19 Thread Carol Lerche
This seems weighted toward older kids. I think you should include all of gcompris and TuxPaint. Paint is not a good drawing app for young children (or anybody else, but I digress). Colors is good. Cartoon builder is good for young kids. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:42 PM, jean piche [EMAIL

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Carol Lerche
? Counting on your help to break this silly thread with actual working code :-) I'm happy to oblige! At last a project that doesn't require me to create a GUI. Brickbats regarding this plan of action are gratefully accepted. Carol Lerche ___ Sugar mailing

[sugar] ssl authentication [was (another) WebKit port of Browse]

2008-07-08 Thread Carol Lerche
I am puzzled about the PKI infrastructure you envision. I envision having a private certificate authority that runs on the teacher's XO and keeps its keystore on a USB thumb drive. So my favorite CA tool is TinyCA (currently version2) which is written in Perl. This works very well for

Re: [sugar] ssl authentication [was (another) WebKit port of Browse]

2008-07-08 Thread Carol Lerche
Ivan writes:: While you may believe the setup you have in mind is easy and uncomplicated, the odds are *overwhelmingly*, **super-stunningly** stacked against you to make PKI work the way you want in production. The fact that TLS client certs, in particular, have zero commercial end-user

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Carol Lerche
Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser? Client certificates work well for this function in ordinary web applications (assuming a properly configured server). As to collaborative browsing, that use case should be balanced against all the available applications that having a

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Carol Lerche
substantial that this trade off should be considered. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser? Client certificates work well

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Carol Lerche
of documentation telling how to access these capabilities. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/7 Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Client certs can be used for authentication with no changes to a Firefox browser or an Apache server. GTK based as well as web

[sugar] Fwd: (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Carol Lerche
on a thumb drive, as one example. We aren't talking about certs that get an attacker into a financial institution here. Carol Lerche On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The UI seems

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Carol Lerche
: On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser? Client certificates work well for this function in ordinary web applications (assuming a properly configured server). I

Re: [sugar] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-08 Thread Carol Lerche
The touchpad issues were a problem in NYC as well. I noticed that it was most problematic with certain kids who were very touchy...they seemed to always have their hands fiddling with the touchpad. Also most common to occur when using paint or colors activity. Only way I could clear the problem