Re: [sugar] i18n best practices

2008-10-10 Thread Faisal Anwar
Sayamindu: Thanks for writing this up. We should definitely incorporate it in to the larger Sugar Almanac documentation. Faisal On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Erik Blankinship [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10,

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-22 Thread Faisal Anwar
of priorities for 9.1 - Eben On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm playing around with the clipboard package on sugar and had a quick question. So

[sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-18 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi, I'm playing around with the clipboard package on sugar and had a quick question. So, the clipboardservice.py file shows some basic api for getting and setting objects on the clipboard through the dbus. However, the add_object and get_object methods (and their variants) rely on knowing an

[sugar] Sugar Almanac Recent Updates - UI, Logging and More

2008-07-10 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hello All, Below are some updates that have been made to the sugar almanac. Please keep feedback coming as well as any requests for areas that need more documentation. - 1 Class: Alerthttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar.graphics.alert#Class:_Alert - 1.1 How do I create a simple alert

Re: [sugar] Question about internationalization on sugar-jhbuild

2008-07-03 Thread Faisal Anwar
PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, from that strace log, seems like gettext thinks you are in the en locale, right? How are you running your activity? Regards, Tomeu On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to set up some simple internationalization

[sugar] Question about internationalization on sugar-jhbuild

2008-07-02 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hello All, I'm trying to set up some simple internationalization on a sugar activity but am running in to problems. I am specifically using sugar-jhbuild and launching it with 'LANG=es ./sugar-jhbuild run' command when I want to test my internationalization out. Here are the steps I have followed

Re: [sugar] Updates This Week to the Sugar Almanac - Using the Datastore and More

2008-06-27 Thread Faisal Anwar
call could be abstracted to some standard python calls. Faisal On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Faisal, some answers below: 2008/6/24 Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ?? Is there a specific reason why there isn't a set() method

[sugar] Updates This Week to the Sugar Almanac - Using the Datastore and More

2008-06-24 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hello All, First off, thanks to everyone who has been contributing to the almanac ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar-api-doc) directly or giving me feedback on things that need to be added or improved for accuracy. Please keep the feedback coming. Among many other additions, the Sugar Almanac now

Re: [sugar] Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-14 Thread Faisal Anwar
widget (as used by write) in python programs. The links are on our wiki here: http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiWidget http://www.abisource.com/wiki/PyAbiWord Cheers Martin On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:34 -0400, Faisal Anwar wrote: Hello All, As many of you know, I'm writing up

[sugar] Info about data, instance and tmp directories in activity root

2008-06-13 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi, Does anyone know about (or can point me to docs for) the recommended uses of the data, instance and tmp directories that exist for every activity (usually found in the ~myhome/.sugar/default/org.laptop.MyActivity/ directory)? In particular, I had the following questions: - what types of

Re: [sugar] Info about data, instance and tmp directories in activity root

2008-06-13 Thread Faisal Anwar
thanks! On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know about (or can point me to docs for) the recommended uses of the data, instance and tmp directories that exist

[sugar] Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-13 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hello All, As many of you know, I'm writing up a sugar almanac to help new sugar/python developers get up and running with creating useful activities. I will try to send frequent updates in terms of what has been added. In addition to using the documentation, I'd appreciate it if people familiar

[sugar] documentation effort for sugar api

2008-06-04 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hello All, I'm currently working on creating documentation for the api of several basic sugar packages. I've started putting some of this work online at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar-api-doc. I'm sure that many of you have a lot of knowledge and experience with different modules in sugar and