Re: [Sugar-devel] Little bits of atomicity...

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:35, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hacking on bits of Browse is taking me down the path of reading various random bits of Sugar. And I wanted to drop a quick note... Modern POSIX systems give us a cheap safe atomic way of dealing with updates to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:57, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, IMO the *only* stable Sugar OS is OLPC XO Software 8.2.0 running on XO or emulator. As far as I know, none of the other

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:03, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: Hemant, Tomeu, Assim and all, Has there been any progress on TTS since last summer? I'd love to see this project move forward. Prabhas has also indicated some interest in working on language-learning support, which is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ignoring certain exceptions while debugging...?

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Is there a better way? Sorry about the late reply. I'm having trouble understanding the doubt, can you reformulate your question (if it's still valid)? Use case: I write my code, adding nice exceptions to handle all the

[Sugar-devel] sugar on jaunty and abiword

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all, seems like, unless we make a strong final push, Write and other cool activities that make use of abiword won't run out of the box on the next Ubuntu release. This would mean a significantly less useful Sugar on what may be the widest available Linux distribution. It would be a real pity

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ignoring certain exceptions while debugging...?

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:26, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Is there a better way? Sorry about the late reply. I'm having trouble understanding the doubt, can you reformulate your question (if it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 1 (0.83.5)

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:28:40AM -0800, S Page wrote: (I cc'd the sugarlabs lists for repliers but am not on them.) Simon Schampijer wrote: Dear Sugar Community, This is Release Candidate 1 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see [1] for more details. Only two more weeks to go in this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ignoring certain exceptions while debugging...?

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:26, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Is there a better way? Sorry about the late reply. I'm having

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar on jaunty and abiword

2009-02-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:36:06PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: seems like, unless we make a strong final push, Write and other cool activities that make use of abiword won't run out of the box on the next Ubuntu release. This would mean a

Re: [Sugar-devel] git.sugarlabs.org difficulties

2009-02-17 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Strange. So you cannot have 2 accounts with the same ssh key? Yes, but why would you want/need to? -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] git.sugarlabs.org difficulties

2009-02-17 Thread victor
After a cooling off period, now the connection is not refused anymore, but still no success. I now get a 'access denied or bad command'. I am using the git push gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:csndsugui/mainline.git command. I also tried checking if my rsa key was working by using ssh

Re: [Sugar-devel] git.sugarlabs.org difficulties

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 14:47, victor victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie wrote: After a cooling off period, now the connection is not refused anymore, but still no success. I now get a 'access denied or bad command'. I am using the git push gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:csndsugui/mainline.git

[Sugar-devel] Supported methods of starting Sugar

2009-02-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
Different documents and even parts of documents show different ways to run sugar. Some examples: 1. sugar-jhbuild run [1] Won't work with up-to-date sugar-jhbuild (I'm using sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator instead, but couldn't find it documented anywhere). 2. path/sugar-jhbuild run

Re: [Sugar-devel] buildbot failure in Sugar Labs Buildbot on log-activity-Fedora10

2009-02-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:12:00AM +1800, David Farning wrote: Sascha, please note this is a common problem with open source projects. If you show competency, you are at risk of being asked to assume authority and responsibility for something:) Well, can't say I didn't see it coming. :) I'd

[Sugar-devel] Sweet Phone

2009-02-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
Since I finally managed to get Linux working on my phone (using Debian/armel), I couldn't resist installing Sugar on it [1-4]. No, it isn't really usable - only 64MB of physical RAM [5,6] means swapping ~30MB to SD just to start Sugar (no activities running). Sugar isn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2009-02-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Samuel -- I'd like to call your attention again to SynPhonyhttp://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/. We are close to a base release (probably this week) of a 44,000 word English word database that has a very rich array of information helpful to the teaching of English, especially reading. A 10,000

[Sugar-devel] Fuse module to access datastore files from normal desktop

2009-02-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi tomeu, regards the fuse datastore module I have this questions: 1 - The title of an activity can contains all the character. But the filesystem canno handle / charater. At the moment this character became \ Is this correct? Yup, sounds good to me. 2 - Only activity that are stored data

[Sugar-devel] FileTransfer interface has been undraffted in Telepathy

2009-02-17 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Hi guys, I just released telepathy-salut 0.3.8 [1]. This version implements the stable version of the file transfer API (previously, the one implemented was the DRAFT API). I also released telepathy-python 0.15.7 [2] generating interface and constants for FT. Sugar should be adapted to use the

[Sugar-devel] XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

2009-02-17 Thread Mel Chua
The IRC activity (XoIRC) has been moved to the Sugar Labs infrastructure. If Eduardo is ok with it, I'll be maintaining it here unless someone else would like to pick it up. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/irc http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4029 Wade, as the ActivityTeam

[Sugar-devel] Csound SuGUI (csndsugui) migrated to sugar labs (activities devel toolkit)

2009-02-17 Thread victor
The Csound SuGUI activity development toolkit has migrated to sugar labs GIT http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/csndsugui Regards Victor ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Reminder: Deployment Support Mtg @ UTC 2000; 3:00 PM Boston

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Stone
Hi folks, Daniel Drake (dsd) asked me to send out an reminder to people who might be interested in asking and answering questions relevant to XO deployments. If you'd like to partake, please join us in #olpc-deployment on irc.freenode.net at UTC 2000 (3:00 PM Boston), which is in about 35

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 1 (0.83.5)

2009-02-17 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
Will the details icon remain as it is? It resembles a Play button. I think it would be better if the Resume icon used this Play icon, and the details icon used the [...] idea (black box with 3 white lines). I think it would make these options more intuitive to grasp. Eduardo 2009/2/17 Martin

Re: [Sugar-devel] XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

2009-02-17 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XoIRC still points to laptop.org for bundle, source, POT. Several other migrated activities likewise have incorrect wiki.laptop.org pages. Indeed. Please tag those at the top with {{Migrated to

[Sugar-devel] GSoC mentors. Also ideas for projects and community-cementing processes.

2009-02-17 Thread Jameson Quinn
We now have about 3 weeks (until March 13th) to get together a Sugarlabs application to be a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. As the FAQhttp://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html#0_1_org_app_08250740394219425_says, the application consists of the following parts

[Sugar-devel] Had a chance to try SoaS in anger...

2009-02-17 Thread Gary C Martin
... and it worked :-) Just back from a 3hr+ meeting with a potential school deployment, they'd contacted me a few weeks back regarding the desire for a 50 XO initial trial to improve e-learning skills (looking at about 100 total). Email Q/A with him were good until OLPC dropped the 'change

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC mentors. Also ideas for projects and community-cementing processes.

2009-02-17 Thread Nirav Patel
I propose that we require two mentors per project, but allow especially committed people to act as double-mentors (preferably across two projects). Main mentoring responsibilities should be clearly split up beforehand between co-mentors (ie, alternating weeks), but both should keep read up

Re: [Sugar-devel] XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

2009-02-17 Thread Simon Schampijer
Mel Chua wrote: The IRC activity (XoIRC) has been moved to the Sugar Labs infrastructure. If Eduardo is ok with it, I'll be maintaining it here unless someone else would like to pick it up. Awesome, thanks Mel. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/irc