Re: [sugar] sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Ball
hardware. I'm fine with giving commit access to pilgrim/joyride to any Sugar developers who want it. Shall we just do that instead? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-11-02 Thread Chris Ball
. Is this in Joyride yet? rpm -q sugar gives sugar-0.82.9-4 on the latest build. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Status of Joyride

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Ball
is the first build with a master-branch kernel which is based on 2.6.27 -- please do file bugs if you see any odd kernel behaviors. I've checked that both the kernel and sugar boot successfully on 2521. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sugar] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Ball
that language vocabulary could be taught even without textual translation to a local language? Feel free to come up with questions/ideas around language learning on the XO in general in this thread, and they'll make it into the conference talk. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Ball
questions and propose changes. There's source here: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cjb/screencast-activity and a bundle here: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/screencast/ Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar

[sugar] Joyride is open for development!

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Ball
is to wait until F10 is released (end of November) before rebasing Joyride onto it. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [olpc-office-announce] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Ball
is popular with the GNOME folks, but haven't used it myself. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] frame auto-visibility configuration

2008-09-24 Thread Chris Ball
-- it has no lines of context and doesn't even specify which file is being patched, so it can't be applied; please resend using diff -u, or ideally git diff. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

[sugar] New pyweek games.

2008-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, There's a new set of pyweek games available: http://www.pyweek.org/7/entries/ http://www.pyweek.org/ If someone has time, it'd be good to try some of them and see which are suitable for installing on the XO. (And there are previous pyweek collections, too.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: [sugar] Ideas for Journal: How epiphany browser manages bookmarks just with tags

2008-09-20 Thread Chris Ball
11-13, so that'd be a great place to get people together and give a talk, I think? - Chris. ¹: http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-07.html#document-centric-gnome -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] G1G1v2 Activities

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Ball
about what new things we should include. People replying might decide to give 20 suggestions instead of 10, or to omit original G1G1 activities from their list. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] Automatic power management disabled in control panel

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Ball
a different mode to what's the default setting)? This was a new bug in Trac #8062, which I've just fixed and pushed to Joyride. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

[sugar] Announce: WikipediaEN.xo

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Ball
². Thanks to Madeleine Ball for preparing the snapshot, and Martin Walker and the Wikipedia 0.7 release team for making the article selection. - Chris. ¹: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8318 ²: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Release_Version -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sugar] [Wikireader] english wikireaders and 0.7

2008-09-07 Thread Chris Ball
guess. I think like some of the other things you're proposing, the answer here is yes, we could write a program to do that, but we don't really have time to. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] REVISED screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Ball
appear in the journal when the user explicitly selects to save their work. Thanks, Erik. What do Sugar people (Marco, Tomeu, Simon?) think about putting this in Joyride so that we can work out whether it's a good idea for 8.2? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sugar] Performance

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Ball
for help on the new fedora-olpc list, if there's anyone there with Upstart knowledge. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Ball
. Another useful feature would be for Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby does. I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar

Re: [sugar] Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Ball
-0) It's talking about pkgconfig packages, not Ubuntu ones. Then make says: make won't work until configure has run successfully. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] profile information

2008-07-13 Thread Chris Ball
, as you suggest. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Graphical Sugar Control Panel

2008-07-10 Thread Chris Ball
questions about what's there. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Feature/string freeze exception.

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I'd like a Sugar freeze exception for the changes being discussed in: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7434 Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Feature/string freeze exception.

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
for these strings yet. I think they're unlikely to stay as-is.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Release Status Report - 8.2.0

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Ball
it, though; we've always planned on having the wakeup decision made by the EC, but didn't have the ability to set the wakeup mask until recently. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] Release Status Report - 8.2.0

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Ball
wakeup decisions to the EC (#6010) -- this will make the wakeup logic more reliable. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] List of Peru activities

2008-06-06 Thread Chris Ball
in the UI, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] es localized liveCD

2008-06-02 Thread Chris Ball
there I think gregdek's recent work would be perfect for you: http://gregdek.livejournal.com/28311.html Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Sort activities in the list and ring by installation date

2008-05-28 Thread Chris Ball
a similar setup running inside vim. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Announce: Spanish Wikipedia snapshot activity.

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Ball
! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Pippy VS Develop

2008-05-19 Thread Chris Ball
to programming in Python is one that Develop is aiming to solve. I don't view the two activities as competitive: * Pippy:Introductory Python tutor * Develop: Activity creation IDE - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing

Re: [sugar] Document sharing issues

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
the downloader internals, it won't require introducing a new API dependency between activities and sugar. Sugar gang, any thoughts? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] request for help - how to restart gabble ?

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Ball
on your AP again in the mesh view (to force a reconnect) should trigger it. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Wine Activity and DOS Console

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Ball
the laptop auto-suspended while waiting for me to take the photo.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

2008-03-30 Thread Chris Ball
/G1G1_Activity_Pack .. or you can use Bert's script: wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py python update-activities.py - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

[sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
.1 is finished -- it's still very important that we keep on top of the remaining testing and bugs in that stream. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Mikus, But Activities in /usr/share/activities seem to take precedence over same-name Activities in /home/olpc/Activities. My understanding is that exactly the opposite is true, but I might be wrong -- /home/olpc/Activities should be taking precedence. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris

Re: [sugar] some new matchbox rpm testing results

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
mentioned that etoys doesn't work for him either, and that Record is failing to render its Xvideo window sometimes too. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Update.1 testing with activity packs.

2008-03-24 Thread Chris Ball
/1_Hour_Smoke_Test) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Update.1 testing with activity packs.

2008-03-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, # olpc-update update.1-702 Gary C Martin mailed me off-list to point out that this will need to be /usr/sbin/olpc-update update.1-702 unless you're logged in as root directly, or have root's environment through sudo su -. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sugar] svg creation?

2008-03-19 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image%3AOpenA4.svg http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image%3ABatteryA3.svg Does anyone know what program was used to create these images? From the top of each of the SVG files: !-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -- - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: [sugar] Speeding up activity launches.

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Ball
+ before launching rainbow. As root, should be no problem doing something like this: # export XAUTHORITY=/home/olpc/.Xauthority # export DISPLAY=:0 # xterm - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] New multilingual dictionary activity

2008-03-10 Thread Chris Ball
/Words-2.xo Our espeak build has voices for all of the dictionary languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish) except Portuguese, which I've set to Spanish. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

[sugar] New multilingual dictionary activity

2008-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
itself. * Could use a trie instead of just using Python dicts; it's a little slow on the XO. Any other suggestions? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Speeding up activity launches.

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Ball
the ticket, but my suggestion is to please do work on prefork. :) I think having something working will be the only thing that motivates resourcing any security work that's needed alongside it. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar

Re: [sugar] Hello Journal World!

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Ball
.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Hello Journal World!

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Cannot get remote repository information. Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? Using http:// instead of https:// will get past that. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] Hello Journal World!

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Ball
the repository via gitweb: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/marco/edit-activity;a=summary - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Hello Journal World!

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Ball
. As you'll see from the parts of the thread you haven't read yet, Kent now has it working. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Disconnected backups.

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Ball
on. Any other thoughts? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Translation advice for Pippy.

2007-12-08 Thread Chris Ball
anyone like to help with getting the basic infrastructure up? :) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] New power management features in joyride-build-258+.

2007-11-12 Thread Chris Ball
! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] [PATCH] Fix startup sound playback.

2007-11-01 Thread Chris Ball
() if __name__ == '__main__': # running the gtk.main outside of the main() function allows us to -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] chimes

2007-10-06 Thread Chris Ball
/sound') from sound import * playWave(sound='triangle') audioOut() - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Development environment

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Ball
group be unrealistic? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Fedora_7 - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Ball
a note that Reinier Heeres is a volunteer, so isn't pulling OLPC man-power away from any other projects. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] sugar-update: your friendly neighborhood auto-installation script

2007-08-29 Thread Chris Ball
olpc.fth. It shouldn't be difficult to do a git clone of the olpc-auto.zip and unzip that into place too. I think that'd be really useful. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] New Watch Listen Available

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Ball
be ideal to host the source in a dev.laptop.org repository, so that people who'd like the source can get it directly from us.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Tinderbox results, 20070605-0145.

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Ball
on these mails. Good idea? Let me know if you have any other ideas about features for this. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Tinderbox results, 20070605-1753.

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Ball
All modules built successfully: http://dev.laptop.org/sugar-tinder/20070605-1753/ The following activities failed to run: http://dev.laptop.org/sugar-tinder/20070605-1753/activities.html ** Blockparty.activity: STDERR - Traceback (most recent call last): File