Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Development

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:40:01AM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > Informally, we have such a list from Peru, which is our largest Sugar > deployment. They use a core set of activities and have expressed the > desire to see that set (a) reach a level of increased stability; and > (b) run reliably on

Re: [Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 30.12.2009, at 00:22, James Cameron wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:11:46AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> The changes look okay, though I'd just remove the read-only check, >> that should make it work on both Mac OS versions. > > Also since it appears to be set if an ISO-9660 filesys

Re: [Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:11:46AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > The changes look okay, though I'd just remove the read-only check, > that should make it work on both Mac OS versions. Also since it appears to be set if an ISO-9660 filesystem is present on the media. ;-) > No idea where to put

Re: [Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 15:11, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > No idea where to put it - do you think a new project on git.sl.o is > warranted? Sure. Projects cost us very very little, and give us granularity if we need to make permissions changes in the future. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.

Re: [Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 29.12.2009, at 23:39, James Cameron wrote: > There's been some analysis of why image-writer-mac doesn't work so well > on older Mac OS X versions ... you might be interested, Bert. Ah, great! The changes look okay, though I'd just remove the read-only check, that should make it work on both M

[Sugar-devel] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
There's been some analysis of why image-writer-mac doesn't work so well on older Mac OS X versions ... you might be interested, Bert. Is it in change control anywhere? ;-} I did look on git.sugarlabs.org but search showed nothing and the projects list was on so many pages. -- James Cameron htt

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Testing] Quick run-through of Activities thatlaunch with build 802

2009-12-29 Thread Walter Bender
I am not sure where you got your setup.py file from, but you may want to grab a fresh one: #!/usr/bin/env python from sugar.activity import bundlebuilder if __name__ == "__main__": bundlebuilder.start() Also, I modified your activity.info file as follows: [Activity] name = OurMusic bundl

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read-85

2009-12-29 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4028 Sugar Platform: 0.84 - 0.84 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26534/read-85.xo Release notes: * Support for OLPC XO game keys * Fix for footnotes/references/endnotes/intra-document links * Speed improvements

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Testing] Quick run-through of Activities thatlaunch with build 802

2009-12-29 Thread Art Hunkins
If someone could help me with what causes the "malformed bundle" for my OurMusic.activity, I'd appreciate it. I'll shortly be trying to upload a revised version. Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: "Tomeu Vizoso" To: "sugar-devel" Cc: "Testing" ; "Mikus Grinbergs" Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] packaging accessibility tools

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 19:37, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall98/Linux/download.html > > xkbset is an alternative CLI (for the AccessX interface) and already > packaged at least for Debian. Have they considered

[Sugar-devel] packaging accessibility tools

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, Uruguay is working on adding some accessibility features to Sugar and they are using some stuff that, though old, is not properly packaged in any distro I know of: http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall98/Linux/download.html Do we have any volunteers to tackle packaging in their distro of choice? Th

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-12-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:12:33PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > I've uploaded patch with minor fixes and delete fix > > (b0113bf67c31dbeaa08cf0f1710c1be8d02a9b25 should be cherry-picked) > > Excellent! thanks! Will be re-diffing it a bit

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > I've uploaded patch with minor fixes and delete fix > (b0113bf67c31dbeaa08cf0f1710c1be8d02a9b25 should be cherry-picked) Excellent! thanks! Will be re-diffing it a bit later today. > to last sucrose-0.84, was backported 0.86 patch > (f93c9de

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessibility - control panel

2009-12-29 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
I'm among the ones to want to see these features in upstream Sugar. Thanks for all the hard work. Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 20:09, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Esteban Arias >> wrote: >>> In Ur

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly Fedora Sugar Meetings

2009-12-29 Thread Walter Bender
What channel? #fedora-edu? #sugar-meeting? -walter On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi all, > > you've probably heard the rumor, that SoaS v3 will only ship Fedora > packages. Now let me tell you this: It's true. > > What this means is that we can use a lot of help wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Development

2009-12-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 22:50, Mark Symmonds >> wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > I am a freelance developer and LAMP architect with over twelve years >> > experience.  I would l

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Development

2009-12-29 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 22:50, Mark Symmonds > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I am a freelance developer and LAMP architect with over twelve years > > experience. I would like to get involved in the OLPC development > > project where my skills

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly Fedora Sugar Meetings

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 22:06, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi all, > > you've probably heard the rumor, that SoaS v3 will only ship Fedora > packages. Now let me tell you this: It's true. > > What this means is that we can use a lot of help with packaging all > kinds of crazy-awesome activities an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessibility - control panel

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 20:09, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Esteban Arias > wrote: >> In Uruguay, we have section of control panel: "Accessibility". This item >> configurate keyboard accessibility options: mouse keys, bounce keys and >> sticky keys. >> We develop this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Development

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 22:50, Mark Symmonds wrote: > Hello! > > I am a freelance developer and LAMP architect with over twelve years > experience.  I would like to get involved in the OLPC development > project where my skills may be of best use.  Please let me know if there > is anything I can h

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Testing] Quick run-through of Activities that launch with build 802

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
For activity authors that wish to know if their new versions still run on 8.2.x, Mikus have given some testing to several activities: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mikus Grinbergs Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 18:20 Subject: [Testing] Quick run-through of Activities that launch with