[Sugar-devel] how to screenshare to a class

2012-02-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I find this a bit more on the user space than the devel space, but someone suggest me this was the better list for my question. Yesterday we ran our first sugar pilot and generate questions regarding showing activities to the class. Normally we would use a projector for such things, but I wonder

Re: [Sugar-devel] how to screenshare to a class

2012-02-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Alexandro Colorado acolor...@gmail.com wrote: I find this a bit more on the user space than the devel space, but someone suggest me this was the better list for my question. Yesterday we ran our first sugar pilot and generate questions regarding showing

Re: [Sugar-devel] how to screenshare to a class

2012-02-19 Thread Ariel Calzada
ClassroomBroadcast and ClassroomViewer are a good solution. We're working in ClassroomKit which integrates both activities and let teachers control the students sound and also make an aproach of sharing features. ClassroomBroadcast and ClassroomViewer use VNC protocol and the students have

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar 2/4] Journal: Increase timeout for data store operations (see SL#2319)

2012-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
The default DBus timeout (currently 25s [2]) can be too short if the data store is busy, especially (but not only) on systems with a slow SD card and / or when writing large files. Address this by increasing the timeout to 1 minute for read operations and 5 minutes for write operations. The

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar 1/4] Actually use property filesize for showing file size in Journal Details View

2012-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
Commit bc1edfa2193ca554d385c68e43c2cef0b9795a54 introduced code that tries to use the property 'filesize' to avoid a potentially expensive checkout of a data store entry just to display its size. But since dict.get() is just a regular function with no short-circuit evaluation of arguments, we end

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-toolkit 3/4] Increase timeout for data store operations (see SL#1936)

2012-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
The default DBus timeout (currently 25s [2]) can be too short if the data store is busy, especially (but not only) on systems with a slow SD card and / or when writing large files. Address this by increasing the timeout to 1 minute for read operations and 5 minutes for write operations. The

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-toolkit 4/4] Increase timeout for data store operations (see SL#1936)

2012-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
The default DBus timeout (currently 25s [2]) can be too short if the data store is busy, especially (but not only) on systems with a slow SD card and / or when writing large files. Address this by increasing the timeout to 1 minute for read operations and 5 minutes for write operations. The

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-artwork v2] uy#1242 Batch Operations Check Uncheck icons

2012-02-19 Thread Anish Mangal
uy#1242 - Check/Uncheck icons Changelog: =v2= * Completely reworked the svg icons * Fixed the patch (didnt apply cleanly before) --- icons/scalable/emblems/Makefile.am |4 ++- icons/scalable/emblems/emblem-checked.svg | 38 +++

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH sugar] sl#2890: Changing to more user-friendly message.

2012-02-19 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 13:09 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Earlier, the Regsitration failed message seemed more like a threat. The new message sounds more like an information-conveying one. The new message is :: Primary (title) : -- No School Server found on the network Sounds

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar v2] sl#2890, au#694: Changing to more user-friendly message.

2012-02-19 Thread Ajay Garg
Earlier, the Registration failed message seemed more like a threat. The new message sounds more like an information-conveying one. The new message is :: Primary (title) : -- No School Server found on the network Secondary (details) : -- Please ensure that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH sugar] sl#2890: Changing to more user-friendly message.

2012-02-19 Thread Ajay Garg
Ahh.. Thanks for pointing (the mistake). Floated version-2 patch, containing the secondary message as well. The version-2 patch is available at http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/1203/ Thanks and Regards, Ajay On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar v2] sl#2890, au#694: Changing to more user-friendly message.

2012-02-19 Thread James Cameron
But is no school server found on the network the only possible cause for the failure? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH sugar v2] sl#2890, au#694: Changing to more user-friendly message.

2012-02-19 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
If the xo is connected to one of the ad-hoc networks will not see the server, right? May be is a good idea detect this situation and show a different message, like Please connect to your school network or anything similar. Gonzalo On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:14 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH sugar v2] sl#2890, au#694: Changing to more user-friendly message.

2012-02-19 Thread James Cameron
Good, I thought so. I agree. If there are multiple causes, then the message should either list the multiple causes, or the message should be restricted to a symptom ... hence it failed. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:19:48AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: If the xo is connected to one of the ad-hoc