Re: [Sugar-devel] ideal flash activity to be remade as karma activity

2009-03-29 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 09:08 -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: > Subzero, you have competition. > > Lucian, you should check out the mailing list threads for talk between > Bryan and Felipe; they are talking about much the same ideas you are. > > Bryan, you should include Lucian in your forwards. > Sor

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-jhbuild--Sugar does not start

2009-03-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
I think this counts as progress. Now it says: Xephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set? [familiar warnings] Xephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set? [5 more times] Xephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set? 1238392208.5128551 STARTUP: Starting the shell matchbox: can't open

Re: [Sugar-devel] ideal flash activity to be remade as karma activity

2009-03-29 Thread Bryan Berry
I really like this idea. Felipe, Wadeb what do you think? On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 04:49 +0200, Lucian Branescu wrote: > There has been some talk about the interaction between my project and > Felipe's. > > I've had an interesting chat with Bryan and Ben on #sugar. Here's the > whole chat http://dl

Re: [Sugar-devel] ideal flash activity to be remade as karma activity

2009-03-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
There has been some talk about the interaction between my project and Felipe's. I've had an interesting chat with Bryan and Ben on #sugar. Here's the whole chat http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/bryan%26bemasc%20chat.txt Here's the lastest idea: I would be focusing on building something akin to

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-jhbuild--Sugar does not start

2009-03-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 03:29:50PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: [send log files] Will do. OK, python-gconf (/usr/lib/python-support/python-gconf/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gconf.so) is the culprit. Seems I've reported it upstream [1] (supposed to be fixed in jaunty by now, but not in intrepid which is

Re: [Sugar-devel] ideal flash activity to be remade as karma activity

2009-03-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
I got inspired while testing webkit vs gecko and I needed a backup proposal anyway. Here it is: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webkit_backend_for_Hulahop Please have a look when you have time. 2009/3/28 Lucian Branescu : > I did some more testing, this time in SoaS inside VirtualBox. It's as > close

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-jhbuild--Sugar does not start

2009-03-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 02:01:11PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >>> 1. Ensure no RPATH has been set on libraries used by sugar-jhbuild; see >>> [1] >>> for instructions. >> >> Check. > > Strange. From the error message below, I would have be

[Sugar-devel] Hosting related (but not exactly specific to Sugar) tarballs in download.sugarlabs.org

2009-03-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello all, In order to make keyboard selection and configuration super awesome in the next iteration of Sugar (at least for people who find XKB sufficient for their work), I am working on implementing a Python extension[1] which would allow developers to query and manipulate XKB. This will be usef

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-03-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:51:44PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive > technology. But having a "buttonless" mode is a good idea. yeah looks like, but assistive technologies could be a good point for sugar-0.86 anyway :) chirag:

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-jhbuild--Sugar does not start

2009-03-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 02:01:11PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: 1. Ensure no RPATH has been set on libraries used by sugar-jhbuild; see [1] for instructions. Check. Strange. From the error message below, I would have bet it's the RPATH issue. Can you try the following please? 1. find /usr/

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 5, Issue 154

2009-03-29 Thread chirag jain
http://jython.org. *Sugar* won't run in it (it's py2.4 IIRC), but > you'll get Python. > > > -- > Luke Faraone > http://luke.faraone.cc > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archiv

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-jhbuild--Sugar does not start

2009-03-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:32:59PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, >> removing from list! > > [...] > You can ignore all of these. Thanks. I thought so for the Cyrillic, but I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-03-29 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive technology. But having a "buttonless" mode is a good idea. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote: > > Hi!! > > > > I have created a rough proposal of spee

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37

2009-03-29 Thread Brian Long
Lucian, Awesome, I've never even heard of VirtualBox before actually (obviously I've used VMware though). As a newbie in OpenSource, VirtualBox looks awesome (I just wiki-ed it). I also just setup a dual boot for Ubuntu on my laptop, so I'll certainly have to check this out! The help on this ma

[Sugar-devel] I hear you

2009-03-29 Thread Sameer Verma
Just came across ihu or I Hear You (http://ihu.sourceforge.net/), a peer-to-peer audio app. As compared to Asterisk, it takes the PBX dependency out of the picture. You do need to know the end point's IP. I haven't tried it on the XO as yet, but sounds like a good fit (no pun intended). cheers, Sa

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37

2009-03-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
I'm using SoaS in VirtualBox. Works great for me :) 2009/3/29 Brian Long : > Yeah, > > Sorry for any waste of time, I was debating what might be my best option for > testing anything I develop.  I will probably go with "Sugar on a Stick" > instead. > > There was also some chatter on the FourthGrad

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37

2009-03-29 Thread Brian Long
Yeah, Sorry for any waste of time, I was debating what might be my best option for testing anything I develop. I will probably go with "Sugar on a Stick" instead. There was also some chatter on the FourthGradeMath mailing list about the best way that teacher's involved in our projects could be e

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-03-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote: > Hi!! > > I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look at: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis > > Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home > button which is always

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-03-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 chirag jain wrote: > The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any > ideas or suggestions please reply. It sounds like a good plan to me. On my XO, build candidate-801 (8.2.1), I can easily do: yum install xclip [select some

[Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-03-29 Thread chirag jain
Hi!! I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text in current window and presses

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37

2009-03-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
The latest Jython is 2.5 RC2 I think. The problem is that Jython can't really use CPython (regular python) extensions and Sugar depends on many things, most importantly GTK. 2009/3/29 Luke Faraone : > Brian Long wrote: >> >> > >> > Is there any means of running sugar or python via a JVM? > > Sure

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37

2009-03-29 Thread Luke Faraone
Brian Long wrote: > > > > Is there any means of running sugar or python via a JVM? Sure, see http://jython.org. *Sugar* won't run in it (it's py2.4 IIRC), but you'll get Python. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sug

[Sugar-devel] proposal for Listen Spell

2009-03-29 Thread kushal arora
Hi friends, I am Kushal from India. I have send a proposal of Listen Spell. That can be seen on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Listen_spell. Please check it out & give your valueable reviews. -- Thanks & Regards, Kushal ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-jhbuild--Sugar does not start

2009-03-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:32:59PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list! [...] You can ignore all of these. 1238295002.6098101 STARTUP: Starting the shell Sounds fine. The X basket weave background appears, with a c

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] activities-devel.sugarlabs.org is ready to test

2009-03-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:17:03AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Key features to test after merging/adapting upstream code: > > * there are only sugar addons type; > all Mozilla addon types were removed > * new addon type Content(.xol bundles) > - addon's version will be incremented