Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-16 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM, NoiseEHCnoise...@freemail.hu wrote: The real deal is that Android will be pushed by all the carriers and ARM vendors. In my humble opinion it will be the dominant phone OS in the future with even more hardware support the good thing is that android is based on

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, This was just posted to the fedora-olpc list as a FYI. I suggest posting any replies to that list so that the Fedora people see any responses. Peter -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:19 AM Subject: Default

Re: [Sugar-devel] Webkit in sugar Was Re: Epub and Read

2009-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:13, Kushal Daskushal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Nice, looking forward for it. I'm curious about the dependencies, maybe in 0.86 we should add webkit to Sugar Platform. If we get pywebkitgtk in sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] FW: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar

2009-06-16 Thread Sean DALY
Sounds great John thanks If the shortened edit is in DV, I can normalize sound level when transcoding. In other words better results will be obtained in compressing from the source, instead of from an already-compressed WMV or MPEG format transcoded from the source. Of course DV is a lossy

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-16 Thread NoiseEHC
I think you do not get what is so special with Android. 1. They killed the braindamaged X driver model and put the driver where it belongs, the kernel. Just like Windows NT and OS-X already did. Finally it is fast and really supports hardware acceleration! Did I mention that it has redraw

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/6/16 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: I think you do not get what is so special with Android. 1. They killed the braindamaged X driver model and put the driver where it belongs, the kernel. Just like Windows NT and OS-X already did. Finally it is fast and really supports hardware

[Sugar-devel] Query regarding settings.php in modules(moodle)

2009-06-16 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Martin, Hi, I'm in the process of building a print activity module, and was wondering how settings.php works. As in I looked into assignment/settings.php, and I couldn't quite figure out how you use the set flags and settings in the rest of the files. I don't see a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 22:15 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: What about something similar to the deltarpm feature in F11 where there's a delta created between the previous release and it is served over standard http/ftp/whatever like the full package. In the initial set of updates released for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 06:00 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: In Nepal, we are not updating against activities.sugarlabs.org but against the local XS. Would it be terribly complicated to change the code on the XS? No, because there's no code at all: it's just static HTML. You could set

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 06:00 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: In Nepal, we are not updating against activities.sugarlabs.org but against the local XS. Would it be terribly complicated to change the code on the XS? No, because there's no code at all: it's just static HTML. You could set

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 06:00 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: In Nepal, we are not updating against activities.sugarlabs.org but against the local XS. Would it be terribly complicated to change the code on the XS? No, because there's no code at all: it's just static HTML. You could set

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On 06/15/09 16:37, Bryan Berry wrote: I want to use rsync but I need a mechanism that the users (kids) can initiate through a simple GUI, like the current Activity Update

[Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks,    This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June at 19:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) We will have a good 10+ people present, if last

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.comwrote: Daveb will be doing all the server side monitoring, such as ejabberd load, etc. Last week's lag should now be fixed as he has added the shared roster, and enabled gadget. I have not enabled gadget yet, but with

Re: [Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bobby Powersbobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: While not hand-tuned, I believe on the latest rawhide-xo images (and Fedora 11) you can download http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/surf/Surf-106.xo for a WebKit based browsing experience.  The packages pywebkitgtk and

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: Hi Dave, On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:18, Dave Bauer wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Daveb will be doing all the server side monitoring, such as ejabberd load, etc.

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: Hi Dave, On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:18, Dave Bauer wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.comwrote: Hi folks, This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June at 19:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe

[Sugar-devel] [Invitation] Collaboration Tes ting @ Wed Jun 17 3pm – 5pm (sugar-devel@ lists.sugarlabs.org)

2009-06-16 Thread Frederick Grose
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[Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, we are considering using the composite extension in order to improve the perceived graphics performance of Sugar. It would be great if someone could test it by running the following. As root: yum install xcompmgr As normal user in the terminal activity: xcompmgr -a And report any

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:50:03PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: [test xcompmgr and] report any performance improvements when switching windows, sliding the frame in and out, and any other operations that involve redrawing parts of the screen. I see significant performance improvements on my XO

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). I also see significant perceived performance improvements when sliding the frame and especially when switching windows. I have however noticed some artefacts on the top of the frame and the edges of Terminal (the activity where I started

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). I also see significant perceived performance improvements when sliding the frame and especially when switching windows. I have however noticed some artefacts on the top of the frame and the edges of Terminal (the activity where I started

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:54:32PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). [...] I have however noticed some artefacts on the top of the frame and the edges of Terminal (the activity where I started xcompmgr). They disappear after I restart an activity,

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've put xcompmgr -a in my .xsession file and everything works great. I haven't seen any artefacts anywhere in fact. 2009/6/16 Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:54:32PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). [...] I

Re: [Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Robinson
 Now that WebKit seems to be better supported in F11+, I can try to bundle a modified webkit .so that reduces memory usage as much as possible. That'd be *nice*! There's a new version of webkitgtk in F-11 updates-testing that is the same as the one in rawhide. Early on in the move towards

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
When I wrote the sugar updater, I included all the code necessary to transfer only the changed portions of a large zip file. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/sugar-update-control/tree/bitfrost/util/urlrange.py contains the interesting bits. The only missing piece was a proper manifest

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade gravity lesson? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Brian Jordanbcjor...@gmail.com wrote: Attaching Sugar Devel (people who want to be involved with Physics development  might be on