Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Caryl, How is it going? I know of two potentail issues. 1. Getting the right materials. At sugar camp we found that the USB created on the macbook was not working, only a PC created USB seemed to work. Plus you need both the USB and the boot helper. 2. some macbooks have a bug, when you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Simplifying sugar-jhbuild

2009-05-23 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 05/22/09 20:18, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:45:04PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Support for Fedora 11 was missing in sysdeps. I pushed a patch adding it. Thanks! The way Fedora versioning works is starting to get annoying (I had to add Fedora 10.93 just two weeks

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-23 Thread James Zaki
I have a new macbook, but have seen issue 1 and not 2. Is there some sequence of usb/cd creation I should try that might produce the problem? Its intel mac only, right? My partner has a desktop mac running leopard, but its intel also. I can later try on this setup if it would be of value.

[Sugar-devel] Streamlined jhbuild

2009-05-23 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Ok, I tested this on Fedora 11 and it works fine for me: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-jhbuild/repos/streamlined This simplified build has only 22 steps and completes in no time compared to the old one. Sascha, if you like these changes please pull them in mainline yourself. --

[Sugar-devel] Sugar in jaunty chroots... working today.

2009-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
Hi folks, I just wanted to report a small victory: I worked out instructions at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Chroot which enabled me to run today's Ubuntu Jaunty sugar packages in a debootstrap chroot on my home machine. No promises that it will keep working tomorrow or

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

2009-05-23 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 05/22/09 12:51, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The ISO can be downloaded from: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/isos/Soas2-200905212052_sayamindu_metacity.iso You can test the image with qemu (or qemu-kvm) with the following command: sudo qemu-kvm -cdrom

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

2009-05-23 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 05/23/09 19:16, Bernie Innocenti wrote: I couldn't get this to boot, it hangs some time after the grub menu. But it might be because qemu is broken in Fedora 11. Oh, wait! It was just damn slow because I wasn't using kvm (permissions issue). Now I could test it, and it looks good, modulo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

2009-05-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On 05/23/09 19:16, Bernie Innocenti wrote: I couldn't get this to boot, it hangs some time after the grub menu. But it might be because qemu is broken in Fedora 11. Oh, wait!

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

2009-05-23 Thread Lucian Branescu
Perhaps Maximus from Ubuntu netbook remix may help with emulating matchbox behaviour? https://launchpad.net/maximus I don't really have a say in this, but I'd go for EWMH compliance. Even Compiz could be used in XO 1.5, since it has some 3D support. 2009/5/23 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-23 Thread S Page
There are a dozen dictionary extensions for Firefox, do any of those work in Browse? http://www.dailyblogtips.com/dictionary-extensions-for-firefox/ and comments mention a few. 3) Language detection. The HTML lang attribute? 95% of everything will be browser-based in the near future. Cheers,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar in jaunty chroots... working today.

2009-05-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Thanks for this Michael. I used your instructions a while ago on a debian testing and made them work. this procedure saved me the troubles related to working with sugar-jhbuild on my main system. Rafael Ortiz On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: Hi

Re: [Sugar-devel] possible foundation for an email activity

2009-05-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
Lucian Branescu writes: 2009/5/22 Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org: Anjal uses Webkit and the evolution backend and has a cool UI, may be interesting to see how to use that code in an activity. Evolution has a long history of eating mailboxes. When a serious bug commonly affects users and