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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:48, Christoph
Derndorferchristoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
thanks a lot for the release, I downloaded the appliance and tested it
for a
bit with VirtualBox 3.0.2.
These are very
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:45, Christoph
Derndorferchristoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:48, Christoph
Derndorferchristoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
thanks a lot for the release, I
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
We could make it a GConf property if it's really needed, but as you
already know, I think we should have all the UI use a default of 10
and solely use Xft.dpi to scale it up and down. We don't need to
discuss this now again, though.
I would like to
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 03:09, sumit singhsumit.co...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tomeu,
This is in continuation with our chat yesterday. The write/report
activity would be having 3 states , I mean whether the user is working
on a blank document , designing a new template or using a previously
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 09:55, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
We could make it a GConf property if it's really needed, but as you
already know, I think we should have all the UI use a default of 10
and solely use Xft.dpi to scale it up and down. We
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
Ok, what do you propose?
A method to specify the font size (measured in points).
This should be geared towards deployments, so it should be something
that can be pre-set in global configuration, or customized through
files that are not in conflict with
Hi,
while submitting some bugs to Trac earlier today I ran into an odd issue:
I had forgotten my previous password so I used the forgotten password
function, got the mail, logged in, changed my password and was promptly
thrown out again. Now I've played this game 3 or 4 times but I can't seem to
[forwarding to the systems list]
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:16, Christoph
Derndorferchristoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
while submitting some bugs to Trac earlier today I ran into an odd issue:
I had forgotten my previous password so I used the forgotten password
function, got the mail,
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:08, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
Ok, what do you propose?
A method to specify the font size (measured in points).
What font size would be that?
This should be geared towards deployments, so it should be something
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
A method to specify the font size (measured in points).
What font size would be that?
That would be up to the deployments.
For example, OLPC would choose 7.
I guess we should, for improved accessibility. And would be convenient
if the paddings,
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:33:53PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
It's going against an established system that ensures that fonts of
the same point size are the same physical dimensions when shown on
different screens and on paper.
+1
Other Xft dependent applications run against a Sugar managed
Hi,
I'm forwarding this email from Paola, a teacher in Uruguay, about the
recent changes in activities.sugarlabs.org.
Please tell if translate.google.com is not good to enough to
understand it and we'll see about getting a translation by a human.
Regards,
Tomeu
2009/8/3 Paola Bruccoleri
Great information in the comments
The one thing that needs mentioning is the Jabber based collaboration
element. The collaboration is very powerful, and built in
fundamentally. I have created an EC2 AMI that can be started to allow
on demand Jabber collaboration between sugar pcs. The
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:48, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
A method to specify the font size (measured in points).
What font size would be that?
That would be up to the deployments.
For example, OLPC would choose 7.
I meant to ask to which
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 21:39, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 2 Aug 2009, at 15:00, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Hi Gary (and others),
what was decided about buddy tagging?
No one else has commented yet :-(
Doesn't hurt pinging people, sometimes one doesn't reply because
thinks someone
On 07/29/2009 11:31 PM, Sugar Labs Activities wrote:
* fixed sharing bug
* began 701 backward compatibility work
* more debugging code
Is it intentional that no tarball have been uploaded for this? I can
only see that of version 59.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 21:39, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
[snip]
Though I'm not sure I have the stamina to get past your code reviews for any
original coding. It's hard enough to get a bug fix r+ accepted when making a
minimal tweak to existing code! ;-)
I'm not sure what I can
oops. very sorry about that.
-walter
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote:
On 07/29/2009 11:31 PM, Sugar Labs Activities wrote:
* fixed sharing bug
* began 701 backward compatibility work
* more debugging code
Is it intentional that no tarball have been
On 08/04/2009 02:39 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
oops. very sorry about that.
-walter
NP :) Thanks for uploading.
Simon
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(translation of Paola's comments; this is an issue I brought up a
couple of times in the past)
Hi..
This Saturday's afternoon I realized that on the sugarlabs site, where
activities are, they removed the download button to download them
easily.
What is the reason??
Sincerely so many changes in
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:07:42PM -0400, Dave Bauer wrote:
Some discussion on irc of possible solutions [to ext3 problems]:
We should be using ext2, not ext3, in the future so that we don't
have a journal to corrupt.
But there's still a long way to go before we have a filesystem whose
media
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
Some discussion on irc of possible solutions [to ext3 problems]:
We should be using ext2, not ext3, in the future so that we don't
have a journal to corrupt.
That's no solution. You'll just corrupt the rest of the filesystem
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Sascha
Silbesascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
Some discussion on irc of possible solutions [to ext3 problems]:
We should be using ext2, not ext3, in the future so that we don't
have a
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:10:59PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
2009/8/1 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
They haven't solved the problems we want to solve and are probably not
even interested in trying. I'm a bit suprised you are not aware of
this, there was a whole session dedicated to
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 4 Aug 2009, at 04:54, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
Hi Eben,
On 4 Aug 2009, at 02:19, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Gary C
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:13:19AM -0400, Dave Bauer wrote:
Some discussion on irc of possible solutions [to ext3 problems]:
We should be using ext2, not ext3, in the future so that we don't
have a journal to corrupt.
Sorry that should say Datastore, not journal, as journal referred to
the
Tomeu,
I like your response but I'm surprised that you're confused about why your
review process is getting bogged down, so I'll share my perspective in the
hopes that you will find it helpful.
In short, expecting the submitter to do all the work listed in your review
process condemns many
2009/8/4 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
I meant to ask to which UI elements this font size would apply to.
All of them, the same way that the currently written 10 value does.
That's all ok, but how do you see us moving from using Xft.dpi (that
today can get us font sizes that look good on
On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:01, Dave Bauer wrote:
Sorry that should say Datastore, not journal, as journal referred to
the user interface to the Datastore.
No, your terminology was correct the first time. (that's why ext3 is
called a journaling filesystem)
I don't think the logic is sound ,
Sorry I don't speak spanish so we will have to depend on google translate.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Gabriel Eireagei...@gmail.com wrote:
(translation of Paola's comments; this is an issue I brought up a
couple of times in the past)
Hi..
This Saturday's afternoon I realized that on the
On 03.08.2009, at 18:49, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 03.08.2009, at 01:02, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm very happy to announce the availability of a new SoaS snapshot,
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas3-20090802.zip
Please report all other issues you
I've been so focused on just getting sugar on a hard disk that I've
hardly taken the time to think of what comes next. In particular,
the next hurdle will probably be getting it to work with the home
directories on nfs. Has there been any experience with that?
My immediate concern is that the
Let me know how I can help!
Thanks,
CAroline
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote:
It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the
Deployment team!
The existing deployment team information is at
On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:04, Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net wrote:
My immediate concern is that the usb stick starts up with a default
user and there's no obvious way, from sugar, to change user names or
even hostnames.
As it well shouldn't. Such tasks require system administrator
privlages
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me know how I can help!
Likewise.
Thanks,
CAroline
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
wrote:
It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the
Deployment
This seems lika a bug.
English site is fine has the download button but in the spanish site
this button is not present.
Probably is some error regarding localization...
Rafael Ortiz
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Sorry I don't speak spanish so
OK! So I'm covered. :-)
Thanks
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On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:39:43 Luke Faraone wrote:
On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:04, Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net
wrote:
My immediate concern is that the usb stick
cc -= olpc-sur
Bug filled to follow this issue.
http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1134
Rafael Ortiz
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz
Guerrerodir...@gmail.com wrote:
This seems lika a bug.
English site is fine has the download button but in the spanish site
this button
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, sumit singh sumit.co...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jim ,
Thanx a lot for your help. It worked. I was completely unaware of
anything like that.
Regards,
sumit
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote:
Sumit,
I've experienced this
Hello David.
We are thinking the same, our approach towards deployments has to be
this way, and regardless of the tools we use is ideal to have persons
in the middle that can interpretate the different needs of deployers,
educators and developers to ''translate'' those to a common language.
With gtk.Label and gtk.Frame, I've been able to use the set_use_markup()
property to get larger fonts, bold, italics, etc - by including XML markup
in my text strings.
However, this property does not exist for gtk.Button.
Here is the relevent portion of a callback button that works fine (but
The first step, from the implementation, side is going back to the
basics; focusing on easy technical bugs and easy usability bug. The
goal is establishing respect and trust between the deployment team and
the developer team.
If we reflect on went well and what did not go so well last year.
Not
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
The first step, from the implementation, side is going back to the
basics; focusing on easy technical bugs and easy usability bug. The
goal is establishing respect and trust between the deployment team and
the
On 4 Aug 2009, at 03:16, Gary C Martin wrote:
The palette, on the other hand, doesn't work as you've mocked it up.
The primary palette is a fixed height, and only supports single line
primary and secondary titles. I think the tags/description belong in
the secondary palette instead. See
Gary C Martin wrote:
Mock-ups amended, they now show self tags in the secondary palette area:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Buddy_Tags
Why are we calling this section tags?
When I look at these mockups, I see a perfect illustration of a buddy
profile [1], like an
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 4 Aug 2009, at 03:16, Gary C Martin wrote:
The palette, on the other hand, doesn't work as you've mocked it up.
The primary palette is a fixed height, and only supports single line
primary and secondary titles. I
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Benjamin M.
Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Gary C Martin wrote:
Mock-ups amended, they now show self tags in the secondary palette area:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Buddy_Tags
Why are we calling this section tags?
When I
Eben Eliason wrote:
I
still kind of like likes as the prompt, but something more general
like profile could also work.
I think Facebook's solution is very elegant here. Their status messages
are simply prepended with your name, typeset differently from the body
text. You can use this to
Hi all,
I would like to ask what is the best way to get a gtk.Image from the
data returned by get_preview function of activity.Activity fn of
sugar. I want to make an image buttton using this data. Currently, I
am doing it by saving the data in a temp file using the tempfile
module of sugar and
On 5 Aug 2009, at 01:53, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Eben Eliason wrote:
I
still kind of like likes as the prompt, but something more general
like profile could also work.
I think Facebook's solution is very elegant here. Their status
messages
are simply prepended with your name,
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