Re: [Sugar-devel] Python help

2010-07-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On 8 July 2010 04:49, ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student) wrote: > I'm writing a python program for sugar and i recently added a line at the > top 'from sugar.activity import activity' and now every time i run it i get > a glib.GError:Failed to contact configuration server;.(lots of text) i > can't

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Visual Match-23

2010-07-07 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4246 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26979/visual_match-23.xo Release notes: * Byron Corrales fixed the robot/word-edit conflict (#2057) * general code cleanup Sugar Labs Activiti

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-07 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to > talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future.  We've got a few > announcements to make: > > XO-1: > = > > OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release of t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-07 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Chris, thanks a lot for the extensive (and exciting!) updates and information, much appreciated:-) Cheers, Christoph Am 08.07.2010 um 00:01 schrieb Chris Ball : > Hi, > > Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to > talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future.

[Sugar-devel] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future. We've got a few announcements to make: XO-1: = OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release of the XO-1 OS, but a group of volunteers including Steven Parrish, Bern

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity packaging

2010-07-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:18:04AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >> Bernie wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: >> >> I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without >> >> elevated permiss

Re: [Sugar-devel] Clocks on XOs

2010-07-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> NetworkManager used to call ntpdate when it setup a connection.  Was that an >> OLPC addition? Yes, although it's now present in litl's software builds as well. > We figured out that the ntp package has never been present on the XO > ima

Re: [Sugar-devel] Uruguay violates GPL by deleting root on OLPCs

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > The laptops refuse to boot a "developer's version of Linux".  They > require a signed kernel and initrd.  Some people call this DRM; > it's definitely "TiVoization" (check Wikipedia if you don't know the term). I think it is a very well unders

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.84.11

2010-07-07 Thread dsd
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.84.11.tar.bz2 == News == * Cannot delete stalled download from journal #1987 * Do not fail if activity mime_type was already installed #1394 ___ Sugar-deve

[Sugar-devel] gconf: sugar <-> gnome

2010-07-07 Thread Esteban Arias
Hi, Do you think that is better use same keys gconf on sugar and gnome to maintain the same configuration? For example, to set mouse keys on sugar, I should use: '/desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboard/mousekeys_enable' or '/desktop/sugar/accessibility/keyboard/mousekeys_enable' ? Or, to set mouse

[Sugar-devel] Rainbow

2010-07-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 01:18 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > XO and SoaS distributions are configured for sudo with no password. > > Yes. However, Uruguay does not maintain this configuration choice. I'm very sorry about this. > > Rainbow has been bit-rotting for the past 2 years > > Ahem. Sug

[Sugar-devel] Python help

2010-07-07 Thread ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student)
I'm writing a python program for sugar and i recently added a line at the top 'from sugar.activity import activity' and now every time i run it i get a glib.GError:Failed to contact configuration server;.(lots of text) i can't seem to figure out what this means. can anyone point me in the right

Re: [Sugar-devel] Uruguay violates GPL by deleting root on OLPCs

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:32 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > Shipping the laptops without root access is a direct violation of the > GPLv3 license on a dozen packages (probably 50+ packages in later While I understand and agree with the spirit of what John wants, "direct violation" is a strong thing to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Clocks on XOs

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>  And that there are efforts to solve that in the future. > > Oh, I was unaware of this. Who is working on it, and what's the exact > plan? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9564 Now, folks, please be careful here with all the exaggeration an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity packaging

2010-07-07 Thread Michael Stone
Aleksey wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:18:04AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >> Bernie wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: >> >> I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without >> >> elevated permissions. >> > >> > Rainbow has been bit-

Re: [Sugar-devel] Uruguay violates GPL by deleting root on OLPCs

2010-07-07 Thread Gabriel Eirea
Please, when you say Uruguay you should just say Plan Ceibal. Has anyone formally requested Plan Ceibal to correct this situation? Thanks, Gabriel 2010/7/7 John Gilmore : >> > Ignoring the fact that some deployments ship without root access. >> >> Is the practice of completely locking-down the

[Sugar-devel] Depending on Python 2.6 (was: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add models for detecting and parsing the providers DB.)

2010-07-07 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Tue Jul 06 11:01:44 + 2010: > Using 'with' like that makes us depend on Python 2.6. Adding the following code makes "with" work in Python 2.5: from __future__ import with_statement > I have nothing against bumping our dependency from 2.5 to 2.6 but thi