Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Caroline, > > On 17 Jul 2009, at 23:35, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > Ack! I posted this to the wrong thread! Sorry :( >> >> Here are some ideas for use cases that we might want to think through. >> >> Off the top of my head >> >>•

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

2009-07-17 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:49:33PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for this. > > Can you, or anyone, point me to specific instructions as to how to download > and install either of these options? > > I've tried the "obvious" methods, such as: > yum updates-testing csound > and yum

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 15:49, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:42:57PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 17 Jul 2009, at 22:14, Caroline Meeks wrote: > We can put it in front of actual kids once you get a sample > working. We could even try playing the video for our existing > classes. I don't know if they'll be able to give you feedback from > just seeing the video. Might be

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

2009-07-17 Thread Art Hunkins
Peter, Thanks for this. Can you, or anyone, point me to specific instructions as to how to download and install either of these options? I've tried the "obvious" methods, such as: yum updates-testing csound and yum update csound but have hit a blank wall. I've never tried anything in testing m

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 17 Jul 2009, at 23:35, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Ack! I posted this to the wrong thread! Sorry :( > > Here are some ideas for use cases that we might want to think through. > > Off the top of my head > > • Teacher shares a file with a class > • Teacher shares a file or

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Turtle Art-55

2009-07-17 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027 Release notes: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027#release-notes Reviewer comments: Trusted activity Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Language control panel broken: Chinese + Russian displayed

2009-07-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
There are serious bugs in language switching in My Settings (the Sugar Control Panel). One is that switching to a language can result in bits of some other language appearing, and switching back does not necessarily restore the original language entirely. I have attached a portion of a screen shot

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
Ack! I posted this to the wrong thread! Sorry :( Here are some ideas for use cases that we might want to think through. Off the top of my head - Teacher shares a file with a class - Teacher shares a file or lesson plan or student work sample with other teachers - Student shares wit

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Test case: > 1) Create a new TurtleArt activity > 2) Upload the new entry to the SL wiki using Browse > 3) Use Browse to download the entry back to Journal > 4) Resume it from Journal Thanks. That's something I missed. I'll add it to [[The u

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
We can put it in front of actual kids once you get a sample working. We could even try playing the video for our existing classes. I don't know if they'll be able to give you feedback from just seeing the video. Might be interesting to find out. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Gary C Martin wr

Re: [Sugar-devel] advice or direction on sugar development project

2009-07-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Scotty Auble wrote: > Hello, > I'm hoping this will be a good place to get connected with some people > who can help me with a Sugar/OLPC development project. Mainly looking > for advice and answers to specific questions, not necessarily > development work,

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing sugar on debian

2009-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:34:28PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: >Hi, Jonas. > >On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >... >> >Yeah - that bug was causing the segfault I wrote about in another >> >thread! >> > >> >Ma

[Sugar-devel] advice or direction on sugar development project

2009-07-17 Thread Scotty Auble
Hello, I'm hoping this will be a good place to get connected with some people who can help me with a Sugar/OLPC development project. Mainly looking for advice and answers to specific questions, not necessarily development work, but any help is welcome. Recommended to check out this list by "sj". I

Re: [Sugar-devel] creating your own templates in write activity

2009-07-17 Thread Manusheel Gupta
Martin, Thank you for the pointer. Very helpful. We have been able to add the text box feature in the write activity. Regards, Manu On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Martin Sevior wrote: > Hi Manusheel, >There is no specific pyabiword binding for insert > textbox but your

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Walter Bender wrote: >> A private copy can be shared again. So it seems the real question is >> one of merging. If each of us are working on different versions and we >> want to share again, we need some reconciliation mechanism. I woul

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/7/16 David Farning : > > A possible answer would be to abstract ALSOParse.py and microformat.py > > as back ends for Sugar-Update-Control (SUC). > > It's not so much the issue of losing support for the existing > widely-deployed setup (a

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/16 David Farning : > A possible answer would be to abstract ALSOParse.py and microformat.py > as back ends for Sugar-Update-Control (SUC). It's not so much the issue of losing support for the existing widely-deployed setup (although that would be unfortunate), it's that this seems to lack d

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: > A private copy can be shared again. So it seems the real question is > one of merging. If each of us are working on different versions and we > want to share again, we need some reconciliation mechanism. I would > argue that for the time being, that should be a manual process

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Walter Bender wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Benjamin M. >> Schwartz wrote: >>> 1. Any session saved in the Journal that was previously shared, will be >>> shared >>> again with the same scope upon resume. >>> 2. If there

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Benjamin M. > Schwartz wrote: >> 1. Any session saved in the Journal that was previously shared, will be >> shared >> again with the same scope upon resume. >> 2. If there is an existing shared session visible with the same activity_id, >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Andrea Mangiatordi wrote: > There's an interesting magnifier project at magnifier.sourceforge.net > which can be installed in any Fedora using yum or downloading the rpm > package from the project website. Binding it to a key using xbindkeys > allows to have magnification of the part of the scre

Re: [Sugar-devel] Click response areas

2009-07-17 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > ... > >> (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) > >> > - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put > >> > the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying > >> > "Stop" then clicked on that and not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 17 Jul 2009, at 09:52, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Here are my image mock-ups for Write. All tabs are swapped out as >> is, for >> toolbar buttons. With no need to move existing tab content features >> about: >> >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Toolbars#Top_l

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:42:57PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >>On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey > >>Lim wrote: > >>>On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wr

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Lim >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On

Re: [Sugar-devel] Click response areas

2009-07-17 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eduardo H. Silva > wrote: >> >> ... >> >> >> >> (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) >> > - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put >> > the cursor over the stop sign then saw

[Sugar-devel] Click response areas

2009-07-17 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: > ... > (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) > > - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put > > the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying > > "Stop" then clicked on that and nothing hap

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] Source editor and widget

2009-07-17 Thread Lucian Branescu
We could start with just expanding 'document' view source to allow activities to offer files to be edited, like user CSS or TurtleArt code blocks. This way, we don't have to worry about bundles (yet). 2009/7/17 Tomeu Vizoso : > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:15, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> On 07/16/200

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 15:14, Andrea Mangiatordi wrote: > Hi everybody, > I am working on accessibility related problems on Sugar. I have spent > some months in Uruguay working with children with special needs and now > I am trying to organize the information I collected there. I would like > to s

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA School Notes Wed. July 15 - GS

2009-07-17 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
My humble opinions on what Sugar could learn from this report are bellow. 2009/7/15 Greg Smith : > Hi All, > > Here are my notes from today's class. Anurag will send out notes on > what we did in class so I will focus on UI and usability comments. I > also recorded the post class warm/cold comment

[Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

2009-07-17 Thread Andrea Mangiatordi
Hi everybody, I am working on accessibility related problems on Sugar. I have spent some months in Uruguay working with children with special needs and now I am trying to organize the information I collected there. I would like to share with you some hacks and ideas. Here is the first post of a

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:29, David Farning wrote: > Going forward, this option represents a increase in usability with a > very low cost of maintenance. > Sure, but what about legacy deployments, where it is rare to update the existing software? -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > David, > > Could you please point me to an explanation of why it's hard to get ASLO to > generate the microformat that is already understood by the tens of thousands > of > sugar-0.82 machines in Uruguay, the US, and elsewhere so that I can

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Download: > http://bemasc.net/~bens/SharedTextDemo-4.xo > > Requires Sugar 0.82 or better. > > Short: > This version adds support for automerge after offline editing.  User may > start a > shared session, then edit separately, and whe

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

2009-07-17 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:10, David Farning wrote: >> Another pre-release of sugar-update-control.aslo is ready for testing. >>  It is now available at >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-update-control/repos/aslo-clone >> . > > Just tr

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote: > >> > >> >On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:03:15PM -0500, David Farning w

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] Source editor and widget

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:15, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 07/16/2009 12:06 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: >> On 15 Jul 2009, at 17:07, Lucian Branescu wrote: >> >>> Here it is >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac#How_do_I_create_a_text_box_for_code_editing.3F >> >> Thanks Lucian,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:40, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 13 Jul 2009, at 21:01, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> On 13 Jul 2009, at 19:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:16, Aleksey Lim >>> wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:14:33AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:03:15PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> >>On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Aleksey >> >>Lim wrote: >> >

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA School Notes Wed. July 15 - GS

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 21:28, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Here are my notes from today's class. Anurag will send out notes on > what we did in class so I will focus on UI and usability comments. I > also recorded the post class warm/cold comments. Wonder if we could send emails like this to I

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:10, David Farning wrote: > Another pre-release of sugar-update-control.aslo is ready for testing. >  It is now available at > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-update-control/repos/aslo-clone > . Just tried it, congratulations on the fine work! > Fixes include : >

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Measure-24

2009-07-17 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4197 Release notes: Reviewer comments: Still needs some work in other platforms other than the XO, but it's a very cool activity for kids to explore... Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org __

Re: [Sugar-devel] creating your own templates in write activity

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 19:18, Manusheel Gupta wrote: > Tomeu, > > Hope all is well. > > We have been working on developing a template builder tool in write > activity, and wish to have your pointers on certain features- > > 1. Text box - We realize that the text box tool is missing in the current