Re: [Sugar-devel] [REVIEW] adding spiral to Home View

2010-08-07 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
P.S. Random Paint related question. Are you still in the process of tidying up the toolbar and paint tools? I'm thinking of spending some time there with the main intention of designing and implementing support for the new Sugar toolbars. I didn't want to duplicate our effort if you're

Re: [Sugar-devel] MicroSD Card performance variance on XO-1.5

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
[cc += sugar-devel, tch] El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 11:27 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: Btw, have read that some notifications about available memory have landed in cgroups in recent kernels. The Sugar shell could listen to those and give a chance to background activities to save their state

Re: [Sugar-devel] MicroSD Card performance variance on XO-1.5

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 18:11, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: [cc += sugar-devel, tch] El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 11:27 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: Btw, have read that some notifications about available memory have landed in cgroups in recent kernels. The Sugar shell could listen

Re: [Sugar-devel] The Git Community Book

2010-08-07 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: Just wanted to share a link to this book, check out the gitcasts! http://www.gitcasts.com/ http://www.gitcasts.com/ http://book.git-scm.com/ Regards, Tomeu ___

[Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of free memory plus buffers and caches? A polled design is clearly inferior to a proper notification system, but it has the advantage of being simple and not requiring

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 19:31, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of free memory plus buffers and caches? A polled design is clearly inferior to a proper

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 19:33, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 19:31, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of free memory plus

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 19:33 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: BTW, looking at top, it seems that Sugar and other processes wake up quite frequently when the system is supposed to be completely idle. It may be background checks for updates, NetworkManager updates or the presence service.

[Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 19:36 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: On a second thought, Sugar should probably only listen to events relevants to what is being currently displayed. This would display outdated data for a short while and would mean significant rework but may be a worthy goal for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

2010-08-07 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: walter -- currently we try at boot time and set the touchpad to whichever mode the user last requested.  moving this initialization to sugar was one of the last changes you made to the sugar code, i think. but when you were in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
We already readjust the network neighborhood layout on the fly when we switch view. It's funny to see the access points slide around :-) Haven't bothered to keep track of the appearance/disappearance of XO and AP icons in Neighborhood View - it's hard to figure out whether their presence on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 7 Aug 2010, at 20:01, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: We already readjust the network neighborhood layout on the fly when we switch view. It's funny to see the access points slide around :-) Haven't bothered to keep track of the appearance/disappearance of XO and AP

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
invitation icons seem to persist long after all invitors/invitees are gone. is this as 'simple' as removing the notification when the activity id is no longer being shared? Or would you like the UI to still indicate that you had missed the event/s? I imagine if someone clicks on an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of free memory plus buffers and caches? A polled design is clearly inferior to a proper

[Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-07 Thread Tim McNamara
Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? I have spent some time over the last three days getting Sugarbot to run in sugar-jhbuild. After a few code changes, and lots of reading, I have been successful. Some changes that needed to be made from the 0.1 release: - a few syntax

Re: [Sugar-devel] Adding committers on gitorious (was: Re: [PATCH] Remove nbsp chars from the html string before parsing)

2010-08-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 6 Aug 2010, at 13:35, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I was just throwing in the idea here. I will bother you further only once I have a realistic plan in mind (and confidence in the ability to execute it with our limited resources) :) Sorry if I sounded harsh, I wanted to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 7 Aug 2010, at 21:08, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: Just killing a random activity is a terrible idea becayse you don't want your product behaving like it's defective; the pop up idea is way more acceptable(and a lot better than having the system randomly behaving like it's