Re: [Sugar-devel] Jaunty up and running

2009-07-07 Thread James Michael DuPont
Hi guys Yesterday I updated sugar and rebuilt after cleaning the install dir, the sugar now runs without my hack. Thanks Silbe. I dont know why it works, but it works. Hopefully, one day I will understand this. But for now, we will just believe in luck. I am working on integrating the debian

Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity

2009-07-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 04:46, Art Hunkinsabhun...@uncg.edu wrote: Tomeu, I've had no luck modifying background color for anything except buttons. No boxes, even when the box is completely empty. Does anyone know how to change the color of the entire screen, or of a box? I have done it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [Server-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 Roadmap

2009-07-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 15:53, Rodolfo D. Arce S.rodolfoa...@eyuhoo.com wrote: Hello all: I'm actually not working solely with Sugar, but with the OLPC deployment and the XS.. The feature that i found to be more important is the re-installing of the operative systrem, beacuse the whole

Re: [Sugar-devel] Good filesystem for USB flash with compression?

2009-07-07 Thread Lucian Branescu
Sorry, I should've read the question more carefully. Perhaps JFFS2 works on USB flash after all? Besides btrfs which is very primitive ATM, I don't know other compressed FSs. 2009/7/7 Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 21:00, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote:

[Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore Feature added to Wiki

2009-07-07 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I created a Feature request for backup and restore here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Back_Up_and_Restore I'm still not sure how to tie it to GPA or a release or pile of pending feature requests. If anyone knows the right wiki markup to do that, please go ahead. I'll watch what

Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity

2009-07-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Art, On 7 Jul 2009, at 03:46, Art Hunkins wrote: Tomeu, I've had no luck modifying background color for anything except buttons. No boxes, even when the box is completely empty. Does anyone know how to change the color of the entire screen, or of a box? I can remember hitting my

Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity

2009-07-07 Thread Art Hunkins
Tomeu and Gary, Thanks for your advice and interest. I've attached my complete activity (OurMusic) in the form of an .xo archive. Note that it requires csndsugui.py (included), Victor Lazzarini's Csound GUI toolkit. It's barely possible that the color issue lies therein (but unlikely). The

[Sugar-devel] Choosing to merge: a mockup

2009-07-07 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mockup: http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/merge_share_selection_mockup.png Idea: If I resume an Activity session from my Journal, and there is already a session in progress with the same activity_id, and the Activity in question supports automerge, then

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore Feature added to Wiki

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Dave Bauer wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:05, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I created a Feature request for backup and restore here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Back_Up_and_Restore

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Cs-dev] Sugar on a Stick - and OLPCsound/Csound

2009-07-07 Thread Art Hunkins
Thanks, Mike. Please let me know how this develops. I'm really eager to get 5.10 working on SoaS. As it is, I gather, Csound is not available for use on SoaS, and only still works on the OLPC because they are at 5.08. I'm so much wanting 5.10 because it's the one that permits multiple MIDI

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore Feature added to Wiki

2009-07-07 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: Yup, there's a ticket: #916 Well, the problem is that

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-07 Thread Caroline Meeks
To do this we took one of the donated computers and added a new network card. Anurag can you explain what each network card was connected to in our setup. We think that maybe part of the problem. What we are trying to accomplish is to get the computers in the computer lab to collaborate with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore Feature added to Wiki

2009-07-07 Thread S Page
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: I created a Feature request for backup and restore here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Back_Up_and_Restore I'm still not sure how to tie it to GPA Add [[Category:Features requested by Gardner Pilot Academy]] to it.

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Etoys 4.0.2229

2009-07-07 Thread Bert Freudenberg
== Sources == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2229.tar.gz http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-102.tar.gz == Packaged == http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2229-1.noarch.rpm http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-102.xo ==

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-07 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: To do this we took one of the donated computers and added a new network card.  Anurag can you explain what each network card was connected to in our setup. We think that maybe part of the problem. What we are trying

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Corps Deployment looking to fund Prog. Dev.

2009-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
Paul - The sugar development list is a good place to look for someone with time to help. Extending Write to do what you have in mind may indeed be the best way to proceed - they had some developers interested in doing more work for the XO but lacking funds. SJ Seth Woodworth wrote: | Write

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anurag Goelagoe...@gmail.com wrote: We booted several computers with SoaS and changed the network settings from the default (jabber.sugarlabs.org) to the IP address on the XS. After doing this, the computers in the computer lab still would That is a workaround

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

2009-07-07 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anurag Goelagoe...@gmail.com wrote: We booted several computers with SoaS and changed the network settings from the default (jabber.sugarlabs.org) to the IP address on the XS.

Re: [Sugar-devel] poor man's mmap sliding window on Python 2.5.x

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for looking into this. I'll post the (trivial, really) repro code I have later (I'm on a gruelling 35hr trip at the moment). Had some time to retest this on the plane, and I think it was mis-diagnosis. The

Re: [Sugar-devel] Questions about GConf and ORBit.

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Stone
Tomeu, I dug through the gconf, libbonobo, and orbit2 source code and discovered some interesting things. Most relevant for this discussion: * ORBit2, on Linux, defaults to sending messages over unix sockets in directories like /tmp/orbit-$USER* which it carefully creates with mode 0700. There

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Distance v16

2009-07-07 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Download: http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/Distance-16.xo Changes: In addition to the usual crop of translation updates, this release adds a very simple Calibration feature. Its principal purpose is to improve support for non-XO laptops. Users can now

[Sugar-devel] Soas on XO-1 vs activation

2009-07-07 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
With respect to: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC I am considering options 2 3. Both these options ultimately involve copy-nand. Am I going to lose activation my development key when I do this? In other words, do I need to prepare the XS activation server (or

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas on XO-1 vs activation

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: I am considering options 2 3. Both these options ultimately involve copy-nand. Am I going to lose activation my development key when I do this? In other words, do I need to prepare the XS activation server (or