Re: [Sugar-devel] More new and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-02-03 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:35:06AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > [...] In one case you get garbage and in the second you get code with > no indents. I have set up a Git repository for the sample code in the > book and I will change all the references to copying and pasting code > to "Open file name

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Feature Status

2010-02-03 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 02/03/2010 09:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Simon Schampijer >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> today is Feature Freeze [1]! Here is a status on the pending features >>> [2]: >>> >>> *** 3G Support >>> The

Re: [Sugar-devel] screen blurring using firefox 3.5 and 3.6

2010-02-03 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:33:12AM +1300, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 26 January 2010 17:15, Bryan Berry wrote: > > I see significant blurring whenever a png image is added for manipulated > > Just got this email. GMail has been acting very slow recently. No, it wasn't GMail's fault ... this was a

Re: [Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jim Simmons wrote: > In the "Make Your Own sugar Activities!" book I'm doing at Floss > Manuals I do refer to "sugar-emulator" as something distinct from > sugar-jhbuild.  For instance, I'll say, "If you're using sugar-jhbuild > under Fedora 11 do this, if you're us

[Sugar-devel] INVITATION: Sri Lanka QA Team Call -- Friday 5AM EU Time

2010-02-03 Thread Holt
Spread the Word if you believe in shipping Quality XO-1 and XO-1.5 software to increasing numbers of OLPC/Sugar kids worldwide -- we *cannot* fix all bugs but we CAN organize what we have -- sanding off rough edges to build a better classroom experience, One Step at a Time. I need 1 or 2 exper

Re: [Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Simmons
Scott, In the "Make Your Own sugar Activities!" book I'm doing at Floss Manuals I do refer to "sugar-emulator" as something distinct from sugar-jhbuild. For instance, I'll say, "If you're using sugar-jhbuild under Fedora 11 do this, if you're using sugar-jhbuild do that." Even though technically

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-02-03 (addendum)

2010-02-03 Thread Art Hunkins
FWIW, my activities run perfectly with both Strawberry and Blueberry SoaS plugged into my XO-1. The only small issue I've noticed is that the XO-1 does not close down completely at the end. Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: "Walter Bender" To: Cc: "iaep" ; "Sugar-dev Devel" S

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] [DESIGN] Enhanced Color Selector

2010-02-03 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Thanks Tim for your feedback, > > On 02/02/2010 11:54 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: >> On 2 February 2010 22:45, Simon Schampijer  wrote: >> >>> In the design meeting and the ml-thread the '+' layout and the rows of >> >> XOs were favored. Eben b

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Feature Status

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 02/01/2010 07:08 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Hi, > > today is Feature Freeze [1]! Here is a status on the pending features [2]: > > *** 3G Support > The 3G Feature has been landed. Some improvements for this Feature are > pending. > > *** Enhanced color selector > The enhanced color selector h

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: DML Competition open for resubmissions! All applicants must resubmit by Feb 15th at noon EST

2010-02-03 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
For our attention. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mandy Dailey Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:01 PM Subject: DML Competition open for resubmissions! All applicants must resubmit by Feb 15th at noon EST To: dmlc2010-applica...@duke.edu The application system for the 2010 HASTAC/Ma

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] [DESIGN] Enhanced Color Selector

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Schampijer
Thanks Tim for your feedback, On 02/02/2010 11:54 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 2 February 2010 22:45, Simon Schampijer wrote: > >> In the design meeting and the ml-thread the '+' layout and the rows of > > XOs were favored. Eben brought as well the 'static rows with separated >> fill/stroke' on t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Feature Status

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 02/03/2010 09:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> today is Feature Freeze [1]! Here is a status on the pending features [2]: >> >> *** 3G Support >> The 3G Feature has been landed. Some improvements for this Feature are >> pending.

Re: [Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jim Simmons wrote: > I'm not sure that what you're proposing is any less confusing than > what we have now.  In my opinion sugar-jhbuild IS an alternative to > sugar-emulator, at least if you define "sugar-emulator" as what is > provided as a Sugar environment by Fe

Re: [Sugar-devel] screen blurring using firefox 3.5 and 3.6

2010-02-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 January 2010 17:15, Bryan Berry wrote: > I have tested firefox 3.5 and 3.6 on the XO with Sugar version > sugar-0.81.7-1. > > I see significant blurring whenever a png image is added for manipulated > > I also had this issue w/ os10 for 0.84? > http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/XO-1/builds/O

Re: [Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Simmons
Sascha, I'm not sure that what you're proposing is any less confusing than what we have now. In my opinion sugar-jhbuild IS an alternative to sugar-emulator, at least if you define "sugar-emulator" as what is provided as a Sugar environment by Fedora and other distros. You can run either one and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Feature Status

2010-02-03 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Hi, > > today is Feature Freeze [1]! Here is a status on the pending features [2]: > > *** 3G Support > The 3G Feature has been landed. Some improvements for this Feature are > pending. > > *** Enhanced color selector > The enhanced color s

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-02-03 (addendum)

2010-02-03 Thread Walter Bender
I forgot to mention a few things in yesterday's Digest: (1) We need to put together our Google Summer of Code proposal... please contact me if you are interested in helping. (2) We have several SL proposals submitted to organizations that require "voting". Please visit http://www.dmlcompetition.ne

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-03 Thread Behavior Vehikel
Hi, >> You should be able to create your web page as a Journal entry with the >> MIME type of text/html, then use code like that described here: >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore#How_do_I_resume_an_activity_from_the_datastore_programmatically.3F

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Ugh. I can't imagine that is an officially supported method. - Bert - On 03.02.2010, at 09:41, Jim Simmons wrote: > > Thomas, > > You should be able to create your web page as a Journal entry with the > MIME type of text/html, then use code like that described here: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Simmons
Thomas, You should be able to create your web page as a Journal entry with the MIME type of text/html, then use code like that described here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore#How_do_I_resume_an_activity_from_the_datastore_programmatically.3F That s

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Control Panel Font configuration

2010-02-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > It may make sense to allow setting of the font as well. While the > default "Sans" may be good enough for most European scripts, it may > cause problems for Arabic, Asian, South Asian scripts, etc. "Sans" > usually resolves to DejaVu San

[Sugar-devel] More new and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Simmons
In this latest draft I have added a not quite complete chapter on Making Shared Activities. The part that is missing is on using DBus Tubes to remotely call methods, and it's missing because I've never done it. I do plan to learn how to do this, come up with a decent example program (something fa

Re: [Sugar-devel] "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:43:26AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Will we need to update any docs? I have updated the canonical sugar-jhbuild instructions [1] in the meantime. If you know any other docs telling users how to run sugar-emulator inside sugar-jhbuild please point them out to me (will

Re: [Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:41, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:16:56AM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: > >> FYI: sugar-jhbuild is currently broken due to upstream (i.e. >>  Gnome/Jhbuild) changes - even upstream itself is broken. > > Has just been fixed (both upstream and our code). > >

[Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" no longer starts sugar-emulator by default

2010-02-03 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:16:56AM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: FYI: sugar-jhbuild is currently broken due to upstream (i.e. Gnome/Jhbuild) changes - even upstream itself is broken. Has just been fixed (both upstream and our code). IMPORTANT: "sugar-jhbuild run" (without further arguments) prev