[Sugar-devel] Open translation tools (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread samy boutayeb
Following the discussions Potential volunteer offering technical writing about the choice of an adequate translation tool suitable for a a project like a manual, please see: Open Translation Tools http://en.flossmanuals.net/open-translation-tools/ Among the tools mentioned in this review, my

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Pippy export buttons

2011-10-05 Thread Manuel Quiñones
Hi Gary, Gonzalo, dev list, This is for bug #3157 Pippy can't save work anymore What do you think about something in the line of this? http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/pippy_design/pippy_export.png What about the icons? Add a separator next to the Share button? When design is approved, I can

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Pippy export buttons

2011-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I think we should follow the clock wise rule in the first icon. No sure about the meaning of the second icon. I guess is crate a new activity, but only because I know what the code does :) May be we should use the export to journal part (because the new xo will be saved in the journal), but I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Chris Leonard

Re: [Sugar-devel] Open translation tools (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM, samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Following the discussions Potential volunteer offering technical writing about the choice of an adequate translation tool suitable for a a project like a manual, please see: Open Translation Tools

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: L10n of long-form content is an area where I think there are some excellent bits and pieces, but I'm not convinced that there is a really nice end-to-end solution yet.  I think very highly of FLOSSManuals as a book

Re: [Sugar-devel] Force icon sizes in style.py to be even numbers

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2011/10/4 Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com: From a visual point of view, if folks have spent time putting horizontal and vertical vectors in expected integer positions – I'm occasionally known to be that tweaky ;) – then they will start going a little blurry as they shift over

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Pippy export buttons

2011-10-05 Thread Rafael Ortiz
2011/10/5 Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org I think we should follow the clock wise rule in the first icon. No sure about the meaning of the second icon. I guess is crate a new activity, but only because I know what the code does :) May be we should use the export to journal part (because

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: L10n of long-form content is an area where I think there are some excellent bits and pieces, but I'm not convinced that there is a

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Wikipedia-29

2011-10-05 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4401 Sugar Platform: 0.86 - 0.94 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27632/wikipedia-29.xo Release notes: * Fix go_home button with new Browser - SL #3160 * Add new icons in Browse activity to support tabs.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK FLOSSManuals software infra is being worked on, and that ... By no means should my *critique* of FLOSSManuals L10n be taken for *criticism* of FLOSSManuals,  As both a community and a tool, they Oh, all I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Open translation tools (was: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread samy boutayeb
Hi Christoph, I briefly looked at OmegaT and Okapi: the first one looks quite interesting but I'm less sure what to do with the latter. So if you have a moment could you briefly lay out the workflow in which these different tools would be used within the context of a 1-day or multi-day

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
As for the use of FLOSSManuals as the source and L10n workflow for the Help Activity, sadly, I think the more pressing challenge may be the lack of documentation of the process employed by Seth and his collaborators in the original Help Activity creation from FLOSSManual sources. I am not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SWEETS] Glucose-0.84 and testing activtities

2011-10-05 Thread Rafael Ortiz
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.orgwrote: Hi all! There are several activities that support 0.84 toolbars (including TamTam). There is a possibility to run Glucose-0.84 via Sweets to make sure that this code works well. Since data format for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: As for the use of FLOSSManuals as the source and L10n workflow for the Help Activity, sadly, I think the more pressing challenge may be the lack of documentation of the process employed by Seth and his collaborators in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Right, here I am not sure if you have seen: the current Help activity is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks like it may have some tweaks and customizations. Quoting a contemporary thinker we can use a directory capable filesystem :) Gonzalo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Right, here I am not sure if you have seen:  the current Help activity is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks like it may have some tweaks and customizations. Quoting a contemporary

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Right, here I am not sure if you have seen: the current Help activity is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Pippy export buttons

2011-10-05 Thread Gary Martin
On 5 Oct 2011, at 13:46, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:I think we should follow the clock wise rule in the first icon.+1No sure about the meaning of the second icon. I guess is crate a new activity, but only because I know whatthe code does :)Why not simply stay with the previous icon for the pippy created

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Pippy export buttons

2011-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Why not simply stay with the previous icon for the pippy created bundle (snake over a diamond shape)? +1 Gonzalo ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Multilingual Help activity: which localisation tools (was Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread samy boutayeb
Hola Gonzalo, We do not have translations in Help Activity. And is not a good idea use the same tools/strategies to translate a few strings in a activity and a full text document. Quoting Martin in a previous post, Id like to say Yes and no ;-) I agree with you that we have 2 different

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multilingual Help activity: which localisation tools (was Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM, samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hola Gonzalo, We do not have translations in Help Activity. And is not a good idea use the same tools/strategies to translate a few strings in a activity and a full text document. Quoting Martin in a previous post,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multilingual Help activity: which localisation tools (was Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hi Samy, May be I can't convince you, but is what I have learn from practice. I only want to point you about two topics: * Fototoon is a good example: the UI have only 16 phrases and 26 words! In part because is a simple activity, and in part because all the Sugar interface is designed to use

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read-92

2011-10-05 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4028 Sugar Platform: 0.86 - 0.94 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27634/read-92.xo Release notes: Fix gettext named parameters assignment. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multilingual Help activity: which localisation tools (was Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing)

2011-10-05 Thread samy boutayeb
Hola Gonzalo, Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 17:01 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard a écrit : In my personal opinion, Pootle is not good for doing a job like this. And is possible do the translation of a UI piece by piece, but a text need a different conceptual integrity and style. Your point is

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] SpreadLayout: fix grid cell allocation

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
The calculation of how many grid cells to assign a child element has a bug in that it rounds down instead of up. With a grid cell size of 4x4, if a child element of 9 pixels in size is added, the current code calculates that it needs 2.25 grid cells, but then rounds this down to 2. When the child

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Screencast-6

2011-10-05 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4447 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.94 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27635/screencast-6.xo Release notes: *Erasing pippy code dependence.(Sebastian Silva) Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org