Re: [sugar] x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

with no noticeable speed difference between it and a desktop. Why wasn't this approach considered instead of putting XP on XOs? Can't take thin clients home, so you are immediately limited to in-school use. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

Linux using this information, however, so there *may* be work to be done in Linux. How far/well mdns scales with the mesh routing protocols, however, is another question. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] Touchpad improvements and activities using pointer (mouse) motion....

to provide. Note that the X server/driver may have compressed some sequential motion events together to begin with. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

) ... Cheers, Alan ___ Library mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

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

rendering engine for everything, to save flash space, and the certificate UI we're missing. I can also anticipate Javascript performance may become an issue as its use continues to increase. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

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

like browse, we'd want pretty full integration. - Jim On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:32 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Let me summarize where I think we are and/or should go and try to put this into some context: 0) good rendering onto our high resolution screen is very important

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

(competition is a wonderful thing ;-)). - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Home Design: Free Layout View

or a year. I've watched it play out that way with compositing window managers, where the early essays in the art were over the top, and yet I now have something reasonably tasteful at the end of the day... - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] OLPC News - (2008-06-23)

, which he haven't even tried yet) is the touchpad; but a USB mouse will suffice for now. -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Proposed Governance - was: (Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09)

). - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Proposed Governance - was: (Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09)

, the decision panel being enshrined in governance is a mistake; and we can use the general committee mechanism to handle the cases where it may be needed. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Fwd: Autonomous system for Sugar development....

but is probably easy to get someone to contribute. -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org ___ Its.an.education.project mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

on. - Jim Just for the record, I'm not strongly advocating for composition in 8.2. I just happen to think that it could bring a lot of value and we should consider carefully if it's doable or not. -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] Autonomous system for Sugar development....

is growing at a huge rate. We have to see progress in a forward direction to be worth the effort to change. I think that it could be/should be in everyone's benefit to do so. Comments? - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

, both because many of you may have good ideas to contribute, and that people having some idea of direction is essential; this is essential both for developers and our primary purchasers, governments and NGO's. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] Microsoft

the Windows scenario to require a BIOS to be flashed in place of OFW. Then we lose the simple dual boot capability. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] [support-gang] Microsoft

-- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

on the very first start and after a reboot, xulrunner does component registration on the very first start which could be expensive Thanks. Marco ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL

Re: [sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship

an option when Sugar was started, though with 20-20 hindsight, we probably should have used something other than matchbox from the beginning. - Jim On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:32 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship

can/should/will work with the freedesktop mailing list to catch the oversights. I suspect we're using dbus in some places where we should just be using the normal ICCCM/EWMH conventions. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EST)

the kids show up in the morning at school problem? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6299 * Dense mesh and Avahi behavior * Applications interacting with power management. * Milestone bug review http://dev.laptop.org/milestone/Update.1 - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per

Re: [sugar] [Reminder] Please refresh your packages today to pick up new translations

cheers for the translators who have worked tirelessly for the past few weeks to make this happen. Warm regards, Sayamindu [1] http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

[sugar] Updating translations for release...

into the image? 5) I noticed some mail go by that certain mis-coding could cause activities to crash. How do we get those fixed? Anything else I've missed? Thanks for everyone's help! - Jim Gettys -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] Updating translations for release...

Yes. - Jim On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 16:27 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 1:40 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) I gather we have to update Sugar to fix a problem or two to get the translations to stick. Are there any other activities in a similar

Re: [sugar] Updating translations for release...

, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time has come to get the activities updated with Update.1 translations. How do we stand? I have done extensive testing with Spanish and Mongolian, and they seem to be good to go. We can't wait any longer to speak of. I think we need to pick

[sugar] What's left for Update.1

for more than some interval, say, 30 minutes. -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Update.1 testing

... - Jim On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 10:40 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: Update.1 Update 1 is about to start the release process. Update.1RC1 is almost ready (by sometime Monday I hope). The first order of business for everyone with code in the build should be to go through closed bugs

[sugar] Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 2PM EST Boston)

Europe in as well as Hawaii. Please send agenda items, or explain why the above is a bad idea. Agenda: Schedule Patch release and its testing Update.1 - what's left? What should we punt? Update.1 Testing - Jim -- Jim Gettys

[sugar] Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston)

Patch release and its testing Update.1 - what's left? What should we punt? Update.1 Testing http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedgroup=milestoneorder=priority - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per

[sugar] Update.1 schedule trac usage... ***Please Read**

and schedule. Thanks again for all your hard work, - Jim Gettys -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston)

Roadmap review http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedgroup=milestoneorder=priority -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] [Localization] Branch rename, update-1 - ship-2

the job of the translation coordinator for a particular team easy, and it is also easy to gather overall statistics. I'll be on IRC for the entire day tomorrow - feel free to ping me anytime (my nick is unmadindu) Warm regards, Sayamindu -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] How to get developer keys....

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] OLPC News 2007-12-01

from what we happened to build. Power strips of the orientation we need with the current plugs are very hard to come by in country. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar

Re: [sugar] [laptop-accessibility] Royal National Institute for the Blind low-vision fonts now under GPL v3 - use in OLPC?

. Bad idea when CC licenses are better for documents. Is anyone already in contact with the Institute regarding this matter? I've emailed John Gill (and again personally to him after my initial post here) but I expect if OLPC contacts RNIB that will have more weight :-) -- Jim Gettys

[sugar] Please increase stability in joyride...

testing of that package, as both the compiler, build flags, and libraries might all affect the behavior of that package as rebuilt. Thanks for your cooperation; the release is in sight... - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] Updates for Update.1 from Joyride

is correct, so that cscott can reassign the bug back to you for final testing. From here-on-out, Update.1 will only get a new packages after explicit approval for each package. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] Updates for Update.1 from Joyride

! - Jim On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 21:40 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Nov 20, 2007, at 20:43 , Jim Gettys wrote: Joyride and Update.1 were synchronized as of Monday evening, November 21. I guess you made a sign error when subtracting 1 from today and meant Nov

Re: [sugar] [OLPC Security] secure /tmp and /var/tmp

will just turn Bitfrost off. ___ Security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/security -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] secure /tmp and /var/tmp

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 12:00 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: Heh. You are way too young It takes a long time to become young! On the upside, my work did not give rise to xorg.conf ;) Nor did mine. I will take no blame for that abortion

[sugar] CODE FREEZE (or at least slush...)!

: Release notes. Please mark any bugs/issues that should be release noted by the keyword: relnote. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Best Regards, and thanks again, - Jim Gettys -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

[sugar] CODE FREEZE COMING!

, - Jim Gettys P.S. We aren't kidding about the request for suggestions -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] ip4-address buddy property - still needed?

/Xiw27pPPMm0g02vhXzRhzUxqwCfW27Z nh1B/wqe7GD/xf/YaOPVaw8= =42L7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing

[sugar] Code freeze for Trial-3 is today....

, please mark them as untriaged and we'll look at them. Thanks for all your hard work! - Jim Gettys -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [sugar] python performance

algorithms are very much too eager for our hardware. I gather there may be some knobs in the code base we can twist. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http

[sugar] Rhythm for the next few weeks.

a destabilizing effect, or may have impact requiring changes by others, please post to the mailing lists before asking for it to go in. Thank you for all your hard work! - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child

Re: [sugar] Trial-2 pushing out bugs...

new icon I'm certainly ok with simple icon substitutions while we're still fixing blocker bugs. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Automated testing of activities

, the other for some kids. - Jim Kent Jim Gettys wrote: I want to give everyone a heads up to start thinking about the following issues: 1) we need to be able to do basic automated smoke testing of activities. 2) we need to support accessibility

Re: [sugar] Sugar RC3 changes

. Thanks, Marco -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] BTest-4 vs. Trial-2 Dates

-2 RC-3 (code freeze) 7/23 6PM Trial-2 Final. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar