Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] New Sugar on a Stick image available

2009-02-27 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Simon Schampijer > wrote: > > Weeeh! > > > > A new Soas-1 is out. It contains all the bug fixes that made it into > > head in the last days. And you can use Wade Brainerd's fabulous Typing > > Turtle to ge

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] New Sugar on a Stick image available

2009-02-27 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Weeeh! > > A new Soas-1 is out. It contains all the bug fixes that made it into > head in the last days. And you can use Wade Brainerd's fabulous Typing > Turtle to get you going in 10 finger typing - /me won already a Gold Medal. Does i

[Sugar-devel] SoaS: Roadmap & Wishlist

2009-02-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, we need your help! In fact, we've set up a (right now pretty empty) roadmap for soas-2 in the wiki here: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap Now as you can see, there's a wishlist around there. So. If you've got an activity which could be useful to promote with s

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] New Sugar on a Stick image available

2009-02-27 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Is there a place/page to watch to discover what is blocking SOAS from working as an SD/USB boot on the XO hardware? I believe someone posted recently that there were a few blockers that were being worked on. Is this correct? On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Weeeh! > >

[Sugar-devel] New Sugar on a Stick image available

2009-02-27 Thread Simon Schampijer
Weeeh! A new Soas-1 is out. It contains all the bug fixes that made it into head in the last days. And you can use Wade Brainerd's fabulous Typing Turtle to get you going in 10 finger typing - /me won already a Gold Medal. Get it [1] when it is still sticky! News: Sugar - Don't add_bundle on

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Thanks Carol, I¹ll send this correction to the illustrator... Christian On 2/27/09 11:57 AM, "Carol Farlow Lerche" wrote: > Slight grammatical problem with one panel on > > http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php?temp > late=page&page=learners > > "Kamala r

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Wade Brainerd
Generally speaking, I have to agree with Gary. I feel like I'm being invited to a Gallery opening, rather than being encouraged to try some software :) I would really prefer to see something along the lines of http://getfirefox.com/ with content links pointing at well designed Wiki pages containi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Slight grammatical problem with one panel on http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php?template=page&page=learners "Kamala reads a webpage about sharks and LEARN that shark populations are declining." -- should be LEARNS. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David Fa

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 27 Feb 2009, at 14:54, David Farning wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Christian Schmidt > wrote: >> Thanks Sean. We are in the final stages of proofing content on the >> betasite, >> and think we will go live this weekend. Stay tuned! > > Christian, I officially withdraw any reserva

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-27 Thread ,Josh williams
I hadn't thought about using ImageMagick, that's a great idea. Shadowbox is also something that would work well if we want to take this route, I've used lightbox in the past which is similar and definitely easy to use. However, Shadowbox seems to be a bit more portable, and we already are using

[Sugar-devel] Design meeting moved to this Sunday, 13:00 UTC

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Please join us at #sugar-meeting to discuss next steps for the Sugar user interface design. Christian -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Christian Schmidt wrote: > Thanks Sean. We are in the final stages of proofing content on the betasite, > and think we will go live this weekend. Stay tuned! Christian, I officially withdraw any reservations I had about the new site:) I showed it around my nephew

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-27 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: > Not necessarily. You could probably hook up a simple ImageMagick > script which took a full size screenshot in the submission form and > created a separate thumbnail from it. for example: # optimized resize with 64 pixel maximum dimension o

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-27 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:22 AM, ,Josh williams wrote: > Carol, > > Thanks for the kind words. That's a good idea for providing a screen > shot, that's what they do at addons.mozilla.org . It might be somewhat Yes, I think screenshots will be an important visual element on the "detail" pages for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Schmidt
Thanks Sean. We are in the final stages of proofing content on the betasite, and think we will go live this weekend. Stay tuned! Christian _ From: Sean DALY [mailto:sdaly...@gmail.com] To: ,Josh williams [mailto:joshcwilli...@gmail.com] Cc: David Farning [mailto:dfarn...@sugarlabs.org]

Re: [Sugar-devel] setup.py release?

2009-02-27 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hey all, > OLPC's 8.2.0 builds have a 'release' bundlebuilder command.  That's what I > have always used to release new versions of my activities, since it works in > such a consistent manner. > The command increments activity.info, updates NEW

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Making activities close from the sugar frame

2009-02-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
If generalized this is perhaps not so bad an idea for sugarizing regular X apps. The bundle's activity.info could declare a regexp to match the WM_NAME of a window and Sugar then could associate that activity with the window (associating a window with an activity instance is the whole purpo

[Sugar-devel] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-27 Thread ,Josh williams
Carol, Thanks for the kind words. That's a good idea for providing a screen shot, that's what they do at addons.mozilla.org . It might be somewhat difficult however to implement an enlargeable thumbnail because the developers would have to create two images, and I would probably have to jump t

[Sugar-devel] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread ,Josh williams
Hey David, I have had a quick look at the markup and the CSS, but I haven't actually had a look at the PHP. I laughed when I saw the Mozilla guys had an IE style sheet, but then I figured they were probably just reusing code. I was actually wondering if I could have a local copy of the remora

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mailing list moderators needed

2009-02-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:51:05AM +0100, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >I'm sending you the moderator password by private email. Let me know >if there's anything else you'd like to change in the configuration of >the lists. Oh, you made me moderator, no

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Making activities close from the sugar frame

2009-02-27 Thread Bibek Kafle
Hi, The problem we talked about is mostly fixed now. John Maloney said that Scratch is going to handle being closed from the frame from the next release. Opening firefox opened two icons on the frame: the firefox icon and another black circle. There was a bug filed somewhere that said that that wa

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings Josh! In fact lots of work has been done on this by Christian, see for example: http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Logo http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Website and, in beta: http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php May I suggest you join the M

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mailing list moderators needed

2009-02-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:51:05AM +0100, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> The I can volunteer for that. I already do same task for 10-15 other >> lists that I am admin for. > >Thank you very much, Jonas. > >I'm sending you the mode