[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Porting Kandid to the Sugar the desktop environment

2009-02-22 Thread Behavior Vehikel
Kandid is a system to evolve graphics. It uses an interactive genetic approach to find interesting visual patterns. This idea comes originally from Karls Sims. Some years ago I published a Java application based on this idea. http://kandid.sourceforge.net/ Now I am planing to build a similar

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] hulahop-0.4.9

2009-02-22 Thread Simon Schampijer
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/hulahop/hulahop-0.4.9.tar.bz2 == Fixed tickets == * hulahop_get_view_for_window implicitly converted to pointer #20 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread David Farning
Very Nice, We were contacted Friday by a company that sells a rebranded Intel Classmate. They asked if Sugar would run on their product. It will be very helpful to have something like Smoke_test! david On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: Because of the impending

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: Because of the impending 0.84 release and the need to have a simple answer to the question does build X work? Colin, Elsa, and I came up with http://sugarlabs.org/go/Smoke_test. It is meant to be a 20min does this build work?

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:51:43PM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: In general I suggest that we don't settle on a *single* canonical distributions but we list all the distributions that matches certain criteria. For example: ship a very recent

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Awesome stuff! Let's make sure to update the link on the wiki page when announcing a new image. http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Fedora_based_Sugar_on_a_Stick (I'm removing a comment there about checking people blogs to figure out the latest one, because that seem complicated/unreliable

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: Will try to go through the whole lot and take notes. Was a lot less work than I assumed it would be. Here are my (few) notes: #19/20: battery indicator not available on desktops; should have used buttons instead of Frame before

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti marc...@sugarlabs.org wrote: We have instructions for SoaS. The whole page could use some cleanups. In particular we should not mix different distributions in the same page imo and we should expand the linux section. But it's a start.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti marc...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti marc...@sugarlabs.org wrote: We have instructions for SoaS. The whole page could use some cleanups. In particular we should not mix different distributions

[Sugar-devel] nitpicks on the sucrose 0.83.6 UI

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
The Sucrose 0.83.6 Release Notes said that we can comment on it UI on the sugar mailing list, so I hope you don't mind me making my wish list. Many of these things are perhaps nitpicks, but so be it :) 1 - I'm unsure about this one, but you tell me: Boxes around all desktop objects when hovered:

Re: [Sugar-devel] nitpicks on the sucrose 0.83.6 UI

2009-02-22 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com wrote: The Sucrose 0.83.6 Release Notes said that we can comment on it UI on the sugar mailing list, so I hope you don't mind me making my wish list. Many of these things are perhaps nitpicks, but so be it :) 1 - I'm

Re: [Sugar-devel] wiki_laptop_org/go/Specifications

2009-02-22 Thread Eben Eliason
Well, I'm uncertain, mostly because some of the specs are outdated, many others incomplete, etc. What might be better is to migrate a skeleton, and have developers add additional topics which need a spec, thus encouraging the design team (myself very much included) to revisit these areas and

Re: [Sugar-devel] nitpicks on the sucrose 0.83.6 UI

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
2009/2/22 Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com wrote: The Sucrose 0.83.6 Release Notes said that we can comment on it UI on the sugar mailing list, so I hope you don't mind me making my wish list. Many of these things are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread pgf
i promised simon on irc that i'd raise this on the sugar devel list, so thanks for replying and reminding me. (to recap: my legacy activity would like to be able to present help and documentation info to the user via the local browser.) s page wrote: p...@laptop.org wrote: can someone

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: Ignoring that, you would think you could run one activity from another using a) Python code, b) exec(), or c) DBus. exec() is the spawn of satan: all code exec'd is run in your local namespace and takes over the current thread. You

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Frederick Grose
I thought someone was working on a quick, smooth confirmation path through the Journal. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: Ignoring that, you would think you could run one activity from another

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
On resume mode in Home, there should exist a distinction between currently opened activities and those which arent: both are colored right now, with no distincion. Perhaps the currently opened activities should appear in a closer circle to the main XO. So, in the outside ring you can launch and

Re: [Sugar-devel] nitpicks on the sucrose 0.83.6 UI

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
Last to last one!! On resume mode in Home, there should exist a distinction between currently opened activities and those which arent: both are colored right now, with no distincion. Perhaps the currently opened activities should appear in a closer circle to the main XO. So, in the outside ring

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
disregard my e-mail, it was intended for another email thread, sorry. Eduardo 2009/2/22 Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com: On resume mode in Home, there should exist a distinction between currently opened activities and those which arent: both are colored right now, with no distincion.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Request for icons

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
As I understand it, not all palette options need an icon. In your case, they are variations of skipping to the next X, where X can be a page, or section, or bookmark. The icon which opens that palette already has the turning page icon, and so by default should switch to the next page. The advanced

Re: [Sugar-devel] Request for icons

2009-02-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, not all palette options need an icon. In your case, they are variations of skipping to the next X, where X can be a page, or section, or bookmark. The icon which opens that palette already has

[Sugar-devel] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, and here's another announcement for Sugar on a Stick! You can grab your updated version now directly from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/latest.iso This file is linking to the latest snapshot - if you're unsure whether you already have the latest version, please

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:23:25PM +0100, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi all, and here's another announcement for Sugar on a Stick! You can grab your updated version now directly from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/latest.iso This file is linking to the latest

Re: [Sugar-devel] Request for icons

2009-02-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
That would be super, Thank you :-) Sayamindu On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: I have these lying around in the mockup somewhere. I can export them properly and get them to you tomorrow. - Eben On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Caroline Meeks
How will I know what snapshot I have on a given USB so that I can accurately report bugs? Thanks, Caroline On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Hi all, and here's another announcement for Sugar on a Stick! You can grab your updated version now

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Feb 2009, at 23:22, Caroline Meeks wrote: How will I know what snapshot I have on a given USB so that I can accurately report bugs? Hi Caroline, if you have a peek in the directory: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/ You'll see that Soas-200902221746.iso

Re: [Sugar-devel] nitpicks on the sucrose 0.83.6 UI

2009-02-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Feb 2009, at 19:52, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: Last one (I promisse): On resume mode, clicking on an already instantiated activity icon from home, should switch to that opened activity. Right now, it tries to re-launch instance that has been saved in the journal, and fails (doesnt pass