Re: [sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list
My only question is whether this should be @lists.laptop.org or @lists.sugarlabs.org. Please comment, or I will make it the latter by default. I think the latter makes sense, activities are meant to work with Sugar and not the XO in particular. Shikhar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed ctl-alt-erase in order to restart Sugar. Both times. when Sugar came up, the Journal screen told me 'Your journal is empty'. If unwanted emptying of the Journal were to be experienced by others (in addition to me), then I think this problem should be a SERIOUS blocker to 8.2. I tried several times to reproduce this issue by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Erase while doing various things on the XO but did not run into it. Joyride 2230 Shikhar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity
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
[sugar] Using threads in an Activity
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 request. After I make a request, this is when the UI locks up (although the request completes) I have tried both gtk.gdk.threads_init() and gobject.threads_init() in my activity initialization before I call super What am I missing? Hope not being very inane... Thanks, Shikhar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] On the Naming of Sugar
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To resolve this, I am going to attempt to list a number of important, distinct digital objects that this work has produced. I will also introduce cutesy codenames. I hope that the Sugar developers will adopt a clear set of distinct names, and I do not care if they choose these names or other names. Excellent, we really needed this. My only (minor) concern is that so many codenames might confuse casual observers or contributors. What about using some composited terms instead of a single chemical one? For example, instead of Sucrose, demonstration package? Thanks Benjamin, Tomeu I don't find this taxonomy confusing and I think it's a great way to distinguish the components. Keeps with FOSS traditions too :-) ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] sugarlabs
There seems to be some comprehensibility to sugar development now :-) Thank you for the effort ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] E-mail, XMPP, and non-Sugar identities
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are perhaps a billion or more people in the world who have e-mail access (SMTP). We would like students with XOs to be able to communicate with these people in an easy, sensible way. For this reason, there has been a great deal of interest in e-mail clients for the XO. I am one of those interested in the development of an email client for Sugar (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Email_Activity), although in the short term the below goal would not be accomplished: a Sugary email client should support meta-contacts in the sense of associating email addresses with Sugar buddies. Emails sent to the contact are either sent directly across the mesh when the buddy appears, or via standard SMTP when internet access becomes available, whichever happens first. ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] xomail
J.M. Maurer wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:26 -0700, ValS wrote: Thanks for this wonderful program! Speaking as an XO user, I am requesting a feature that I imagine would benefit any users that have internet access. I would like to be able to use the Write function, and then send what I have written in an email as an attachment. That way, I can send it to others, send it to a computer with a printer, and use the written material in various ways, even as a book. So is there a chance of compatibility between the Write (and other) functions and the Browse (where we can access email)? If there is any service on the XO that can send email, then this would be trivial to add to Write. Isn't there a Google SoC application this year to create an an email thing based on tinymail for the XO ? Marc While not an accepted application, I will be working on an email client for the XO during June-August regardless. Support for attachments and mailto: URI's is planned. The wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Email_Activity details my ideas and I would appreciate any suggestions. Shikhar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] xomail
Martin Edmund Sevior wrote: Hi Shikar, You can immediately reuse the AbiWidget from libabiword for your rich text HTML editor. libabiword has a very capable export content to HTML feature. You can copy and paste the relevant parts from the Write program to have the same interface as Write if you wish. Cheers Martin That's great! It makes support for the feature feasible during the summer :-) Shikhar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] SOC 2008 Proposal: Email activity for the XO
soon to work on them. I am happy to have the help of a student of Information and Digital Design with SVG icons and usability suggestions - he happens to be my brother so he would be there for me during the summer! Availability I can commit to spending at least 7 hours on this project every day through the summer. Communication with my mentor will not be a problem even if we are in very different timezones because I am flexible in that regard ;-) I'd be happy to be working on this activity beyond the SOC period as well. Background, References == I agree with most of the ideas presented by a former OLPC intern at http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/jrus/email-spec;a=blob;f=email-spec.text;hb=HEAD, especially with regard to search, tags, threading, filtering, et al. I disagree with his suggestion for IMAP email that it be kept on server, since we are looking to enable disconnected operation and the default behavior should be that messages are downloaded. I have looked at the Tinymail framework (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tinymail) and it doesn't seem ideal for what I'd like for this activity (email organized around tags not folders). Motivation and a little about me = I am a 20 year old Linux geek :-) I don't like the fact that Sugar does not come with an email activity and I want to make it happen. I study Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany, an international university with students from over 80 countries. When I applied here in 2006, the application had a little section for 'Something you find especially interesting or important'... I wrote about the One Laptop Per Child project and how much I found the project inspiring and how the technology that is going into the laptop excites me. So I would love the opportunity to contribute. I started learning Python in December 2007 and I think I have come a long way in terms of my Python skills. I have familiarized myself with most of the Sugar code that is relevant to this activity and over the past few weeks I have been meddling with pygtk. This will also be a learning project for me. I like to be proud of the code I write, so I look forward to collaboration and feedback in an open community. I am dedicated to developing a solid email activity which children can use and love. I would appreciate a review of my proposal and of course mentorship :-) Best, Shikhar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
