Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking feedback on sketch of a new color selector

2009-11-11 Thread Gary C Martin
the large buddy icon central so it matches the usual zoom presentation of your buddy icon: inline: layout_tweak.png Regards, --Gary -walter On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Walter, On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote: I made a patch

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keep offline for Browse (offline bookmarks)

2009-11-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Lucian, On 8 Nov 2009, at 15:17, Lucian Branescu wrote: The second point in this ticket http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/971 I've made a patch against the latest Browse, but trac doesn't let me post it (apparently I'm a bot). Besides being able to save pages for offline use, this patch

Re: [Sugar-devel] need to drain the battery quickly

2009-11-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Donna, On 3 Nov 2009, at 04:07, Donna Auguste wrote: I am testing the discharge and recharge of XO batteries. Can anyone who is familiar with all of the apps tell me what app, or test case running within an app, will drain the battery the fastest? I'm pretty sure having the Record

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the Chat/collab leader issue...

2009-11-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 3 Nov 2009, at 13:18, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: We can set a new baseline for Sugar, but the behavior you are describing is largely one determined by the activities themselves. I understood it was a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Nov 2009, at 22:06, Chris Ball wrote: Dear Sugar folks, This mail didn't get any replies, but it's important to know whether people agree with it before going ahead. So, please understand that: * bugs.sugarlabs.org is moving from Trac to Launchpad. Ouch, oh my that's a bolt from the

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Oct 2009, at 17:39, Eben Eliason wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 10/13/2009 04:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Hello, Michael just passed by the Acetarium and, since the dinner was late, we found the time to test and review

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is Analyze compatible with 0.86.2 Sugar?

2009-10-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Thomas, On 21 Oct 2009, at 00:30, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I have been using Analyze in several versions of sugar. soas02 Fedora 12(rawhide) and trisquel3.0-sugar (ubuntu). both 0.86.2 Sugar Analyze seems to work, but I am getting a number of avitars XO where the Pubkey and color

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Activity version compatibility

2009-10-13 Thread Gary C Martin
on this, I think activity authors should take the lead on this one. Regards, Tomeu -Wade On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 29 Sep 2009, at 14:00, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Strings missing in 0.86 r. 04_10_2009 ReadEtext

2009-10-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 12 Oct 2009, at 21:49, Jim Simmons wrote: Carlo (and anyone else), I want to do everything possible to help my Activities get properly translated. Problem is, I'm not sure if there's something I should be doing that I'm not doing. I have my Activities in pootle. I run

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Karma] Re: Conozco Uruguay in karma

2009-10-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Folks, On 11 Oct 2009, at 14:26, Gabriel Eirea wrote: 2009/10/10 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:11 -0200, Gabriel Eirea wrote: I agree with Bryan that it would be great to have svg from the start. I am not so familiar with creating svg's. I have only used

Re: [Sugar-devel] Strings missing in 0.86 r. 04_10_2009

2009-10-09 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Carlo, Thanks for the feedback: On 9 Oct 2009, at 18:16, Carlo Falciola wrote: I'm starting a little testing on the latest .iso: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/soas01.iso, (5 Oct 2009). (from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#SoaS_v2 wiki page) in

[Sugar-devel] Anyone having a fresh sugar-jhbuild build fail to run today on F11?

2009-10-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Sorry for the random email. Just re-built sugar-jhbuild today on F11 to make sure I was up to date with patches (was previously working fine with a build from late last week). Jhbuild all updates/depscheck/ builds successfully, but when I run (with or without sugar-emulator and options) I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Anyone having a fresh sugar-jhbuild build fail to run today on F11?

2009-10-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 8 Oct 2009, at 17:02, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 16:59, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sorry for the random email. Just re-built sugar-jhbuild today on F11 to make sure I was up to date with patches (was previously working fine with a build from

Re: [Sugar-devel] Talk at New Zealand PyCon : Support from dev team needed

2009-10-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Wade, On 5 Oct 2009, at 14:36, Wade Brainerd wrote: Install jhbuild or a SoaS VM and Adopt an activity. We have a page going which lists activities that are unmaintained and need to be adopted, with links to their source: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Activity_Status

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing] Test summary - 26 September 2009 Auckland

2009-10-05 Thread Gary C Martin
, I know I am using an old operating system). Cheers Fabiana Dr M Fabiana Kubke Department of Anatomy Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences University of Auckland (+64) 9 373-7599 Ext 86002 (+64)9 923 6002 (direct) -Original Message- From: Gary C Martin [mailto:g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing] Test summary - 26 September 2009 Auckland

2009-10-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu/Tabitha, On 4 Oct 2009, at 12:00, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: do you think you can give it a look? Maybe we have the mime types wrongly set in the server again? Just retested here in Safari and it's working OK here. All the Activities I clicked download arrived as .xo bundles in my

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing] Test summary - 26 September 2009 Auckland

2009-10-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Oct 2009, at 21:38, Tabitha Roder wrote: Safari XO activities issue: Just retested here in Safari and it's working OK here. All the Activities I clicked download arrived as .xo bundles in my downloads folder. I'm on Snow Leopard, but I've downloaded .xo files on my Mac reasonably

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86 Branching - Activity versions

2009-10-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Oct 2009, at 15:23, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 10/01/2009 03:55 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Wade Brainerdwad...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Simon

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Activity version compatibility

2009-09-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Sep 2009, at 14:00, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: I have a prototype patch which fixes the launch window and adds an error message. I'll try to get it posted soon. Cool :-) Ok, a prototype patch is posted

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Activity version compatibility

2009-09-28 Thread Gary C Martin
. Regards, -Wade On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Gerald, Many thanks for the feedback. On 27 Sep 2009, at 02:52, Gerald Ardito wrote: Gary, This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as part of a version of SOAS

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Activity version compatibility

2009-09-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Wade, On 28 Sep 2009, at 21:59, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: My main concern is, how will most developers know what versions of Sugar their activity will work under? This is going to be an ever growing .info string

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bernie, On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:19, Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Tue, 22-09-2009 a las 16:51 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió: This is not a what if it works right now and since 0.84. Any .xo bundle in your Journal can be 'sent to' over the either to any friend, where by Journal

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:10, Caroline Meeks wrote: The current status of the GPA is: The 4th grade classroom has a bank of 6 machines that can boot Sugar on a Stick. The 4th grade specialist has one used laptop that can boot Sugar on a Stick. Access to the PCs in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Wed, 23-09-2009 a las 14:33 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió: Or, we bless a small number of completely self-contained virtual machines (e.g. etoys squeak, mozilla javascript, Sun Java, perhaps a restricted python), and then run

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty way to do

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Bill, On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-22 Thread Gary C Martin
I'm trying to stay out of this massive time sink hole, but I couldn't let this one float by. On 22 Sep 2009, at 07:14, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Last, but certainly not least, * Activity sharing is not even implemented, yet! We'll think about these esoteric scenarios when they come... if

Re: [Sugar-devel] Colors in the rim

2009-09-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Chris, On 20 Sep 2009, at 15:29, Chris Marshall wrote: It makes a difference with the current sharing of activities since various combinations of OS and Sugar versions don't work on the XO-1. With a number of XO-1 systems running 767 and 802, I've been able to share activities 767-767

Re: [Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

2009-09-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, FWIW, your three major points were fixed way back by Tomeu's 0.84 data- store re-write to make for robustness. Actually I'm fairly sure it was these kind'a reports that prompted Tomeu to make that fine effort. Prior to this (0.82) I had seen occasional datastore 'loss', sometime

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window properties?

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bert, On 15 Sep 2009, at 22:54, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 14.09.2009, at 16:05, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 14.09.2009, at 09:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: When I run Etoys in a recent jhbuild, the shell does not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Searching for datastore entries by title

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bert, On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote: I want to find a datastore entry with a specific title and mime_type. But it returns *all* entries with that mimetype instead. Here's the log: 1253058031.600170 DEBUG root: datastore.find

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window properties?

2009-09-13 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bert, On 14 Sep 2009, at 01:52, Bert Freudenberg wrote: When I run Etoys in a recent jhbuild, the shell does not recognize the Etoys window. It displays a gray circle in the frame instead, and after quitting Etoys, the launch icon is still blinking. I verified using xprop that the window

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate toolbars work in progress shots

2009-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Fred On 12 Sep 2009, at 04:56, Frederick Grose wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: ... OK, this is the best I have right now. As you can see, it is just the old Miscellaneous tab content all under an icon (intended for the Constants

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate toolbars work in progress shots

2009-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, On 12 Sep 2009, at 10:45, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 09/12/2009 03:10 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Eben, On 11 Sep 2009, at 21:01, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Eben, On 11 Sep 2009, at 20:11, Eben Eliason wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] ColorButton

2009-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Sep 2009, at 16:34, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: 2009/9/11 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: On 11 Sep 2009, at 00:30, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: Should the toolbar icon for the colors palette have a down arrow like with the other toolbar button icons? After all, it doesn't execute

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] ColorButton

2009-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Sep 2009, at 18:46, Benjamin Berg wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:37 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: Is it possible to emit the colour change event as soon as a colour is clicked? Or, perhaps emit as soon as the mouse leaves the palette area? The palette change signal is emitted as soon

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Sep 2009, at 21:40, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: re marketing course: in fact I have accepted Mel's invitation to do a classroom for Fedora. Congratulations. re logos: Strawberry=6, Blueberry=4, and 5

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate toolbars work in progress shots

2009-09-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 11 Sep 2009, at 20:11, Eben Eliason wrote: Looks great! The icons are quite nice. My only suggestion is that (still retaining the modularity!) the misc toolbar actually just be added as another secondary toolbar. That leaves the basic toolbar mostly empty, but that's ok! This is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate toolbars work in progress shots

2009-09-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 11 Sep 2009, at 21:01, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Eben, On 11 Sep 2009, at 20:11, Eben Eliason wrote: Looks great! The icons are quite nice. My only suggestion is that (still retaining the modularity!) the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] ColorButton

2009-09-10 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Sep 2009, at 12:01, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, currently the ColorButton is not fully clear in it's behavior (see http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/388). Click outside the palette to close it etc. Benjamin suggested to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Pippy: save as example function

2009-09-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Brian, Just wanted to ping regarding Pippy (Sucrose release cycles an all). I'd like to try and patch the UI to be resolution independent, take out some of those magic numbers ;-) apparently this is causing some issues for non XO resolution users. If I make a gitorious rep clone and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] ColorButton

2009-09-10 Thread Gary C Martin
providing instant feedback on buddy icons, such as accessing the large self buddy icon in the home view for getting to settings, shutdown etc. Regards, --Gary Eduardo 2009/9/10 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: On 10 Sep 2009, at 12:01, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:54:48PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RFA] Feature freeze break: Terminal

2009-09-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 7 Sep 2009, at 23:32, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 09/07/2009 08:28 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, The super awesome Simon has been kind enough to port the Terminal code to support the new toolbar functionality. Patch at

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] turtle art: 2 instances, no?

2009-09-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:09, Bill Kerr wrote: I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version If I have a project loaded, saved and named Then go into the journal and try to load an older saved version then it doesn't load but puts me back to the current open version I

Re: [Sugar-devel] icons for paragraph toolbar

2009-09-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Fred, On 7 Sep 2009, at 06:10, Frederick Grose wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: ... Insert table icon is already in sugar-artwork, it's called insert- table.svg and looks OK to me, but I can't see it being set by the InsertToolbar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Read toolbar - not enough space for TOC on little dimensions

2009-09-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, On 7 Sep 2009, at 14:09, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, with the new toolbar design I have the issue of 'loosing' the some widgets, with smaller dimensions (800x600). Any ideas on how we could rearrange that? Putting it in a secondary toolbar? Other ideas? Is the large drop

Re: [Sugar-devel] icons for paragraph toolbar

2009-09-06 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Walter, On 6 Sep 2009, at 13:52, Walter Bender wrote: I created a walter clone of Write where I pushed (most) of these changes. (I need to work on the tables still.) Please let me know what you think. (I created an icon for the heading-style menu, attached.) Hmmm, not sure if I'm getting

Re: [Sugar-devel] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Sep 2009, at 12:53, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 13:46, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: I also think that improving the default texts will improve greatly this issue. Anybody wants to tackle it? Maybe for a reduced number of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Sep 2009, at 18:24, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 5 Sep 2009, at 12:53, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 13:46, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: I also think that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Benjamin, On 5 Sep 2009, at 18:27, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: How about Change this title to a description of this Write Document!? Drawbacks, are that many will still choose to not edit the name, and Journal will fill with this junk text when ever they don't

Re: [Sugar-devel] icons for paragraph toolbar

2009-09-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Sep 2009, at 17:55, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Walter, If I focus on generating need icons (and some order suggestions) would you pick up patching the Write toolbars? I can then move onto other icons for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Friends view UI affordances?

2009-09-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Sep 2009, at 06:59, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: My vision is that we would create Moodle Classes for all the various groupings that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Memorize create icon

2009-09-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, Bringing on list so folks can argue with me on this :-) On 3 Sep 2009, at 16:07, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 09/03/2009 03:55 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Simon, OK here's a possible create icon for Memorize. The idea being the Play tab tools all become first class, and all

Re: [Sugar-devel] Friends view UI affordances?

2009-09-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Sep 2009, at 14:37, Eben Eliason wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: My vision is that we would create Moodle Classes for all the various groupings that students have throughout the day. Then maybe the Neighborhood view shows only

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Question #81563]: Why doesn't Record work with Strawberry VM?

2009-09-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 3 Sep 2009, at 17:58, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Bill Bogstadbogs...@pobox.com wrote: [problems with Macbook? cameras and SoaS under VirtualBox] However, I found the following thread on their support forum:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Listview (gtk.treeview)

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Aug 2009, at 09:17, Simon Schampijer wrote: with the current switch to use gtk.TreeView in the Journal list view I came across: a) patch to remove the column headers, with removing of the clickable b) issues: - when started the first time, the date column has another color (see

Re: [Sugar-devel] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
://erikos.sweettimez.de/ --- Categories: Sugar, Deployment and Teaching [2] http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ +1 on removing the “naming alert”, this has been bugging me since the day it's been introduced. Adding “rewards” to the Journal is something that David Van Assche and Gary C Martin discussed

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Bug 419240] [NEW] Need instructions on how to set up a cluster of computers so they collaborate.

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 2 Sep 2009, at 01:57, Caroline Meeks wrote: A crossover cable is a really interesting idea. That would be a simple way to set up two machines in a hallway to collaborate. If anyone can test it would be appreciated. I'll try to get one so we can test on Monday. I should

Re: [Sugar-devel] minutes of today's meeting

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Sep 2009, at 19:50, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 20:49, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, we had an excellent discussion in today's meeting, pity we ran out of time. Here you can find the logs and minutes:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Question #81563]: Why doesn't Record work with Strawberry VM?

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 3 Sep 2009, at 02:40, Caroline Meeks wrote: Other Mac users...are you having this problem to? Does anyone know the root cause? The GPA is very excited to use the built in cameras with their macbooks. I'm pretty sure this worked on my iMac a few months ago. I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Bug 419240] [NEW] Need instructions on how to set up a cluster of computers so they collaborate.

2009-09-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Sep 2009, at 20:35, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 1 Sep 2009, at 20:20, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:57:57PM -0400, Mike Lee wrote: As I said in another email, I've tested the Linksys 5-port Workgroup Switch with no luck. I don't think it has

Re: [Sugar-devel] Does honey still serve a useful purpose?

2009-08-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi David, On 30 Aug 2009, at 20:25, David Farning wrote: I have been looking at the process for creating and release new activities. I have been wondering, 'What is the advantage of distributing activities through distros as Honey?' It would seem that installing the activities as .xo

Re: [Sugar-devel] SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Ben, On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle for Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK, since the versioning issues (which OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 GPLv2+classpath-exception for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundles with binary requirements (Was: The ARM is near)

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Aug 2009, at 00:17, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:09:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: 0install looks quite promising to me and http://www.osnews.com/story/16956/Decentralised_Installation_Systems is good reading about the general issues involved. Has anyone here

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundles with binary requirements (Was: The ARM is near)

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 30 Aug 2009, at 01:23, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:51:22AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 30 Aug 2009, at 00:17, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:09:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: 0install looks quite promising to me and http

Re: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

2009-08-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Aug 2009, at 11:57, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:51, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: As a developer, dropping .xo support would take a lot of work from my shoulders, but I suspect our users would kill us... I suspect users will kill you as well when

Re: [Sugar-devel] clash of user- and system-installed activities (was: Release Physics-3)

2009-08-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:42, Walter Bender wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Dave, Do you have Physics-2 installed on the SoaS? Depending on the SoaS version you have, the early ones

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network identification badge

2009-08-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:51, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 27 Aug 2009, at 22:24, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/27/2009 10:42 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Quick ping, Do we need something like an emblem-buddy.svg for ad-hoc

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network identification badge

2009-08-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Schampijer wrote: On 08/27/2009 10:42 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Quick ping, Do we need something like an emblem-buddy.svg for ad-hoc network icons (e.g. an XO icon used in same way as the star and lock icon are used to badge AP icons)? Sorry couldn't find a trac ticket or the right ML

[Sugar-devel] Bundles with binary requirements (Was: The ARM is near)

2009-08-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Benjamin, On 28 Aug 2009, at 03:58, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Bobby Powers wrote: I think having something like: example.activity |-arch/ |-arch/x86/ |-arch/x86/bin/ |-arch/x86/lib/ |-arch/armel/ ... could work. Sugar could set an environmental variable ARCH to the relevant

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:09, Jim Simmons wrote: Eben, I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code will show objects on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:43, Eben Eliason wrote: You really do need to upgrade ;-p I know! I've been waiting to figure out how to get the latest releases flashed onto my XOs. The last time I looked I didn't see clear instructions for doing so. Any pointers? :-) Good timing (see

Re: [Sugar-devel] New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Yioryos, On 26 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: Thank you. Now olpc-powerd works as advertised. Kudos. However the problem with the overlap with the GNOME PM remains. I guess the X-server and Gnome power management updates also did not affect the battery monitor

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Aug 2009, at 05:17, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/8/22 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: 1) Is it a bug that there are 2 'grey circles' showing the same Create new wireless network entry? It's acting as designed - showing the status of all the wireless devices it can find in the system

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

2009-08-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Aug 2009, at 16:19, Simon Schampijer wrote: On the thumb-view toolbar icon subject: Gary, do you have a moment to get us the svg icon for that one? The 4 square boxes, sure, will email it shortly. Regards, --Gary ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

2009-08-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 22 Aug 2009, at 15:05, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: [forwarded from christian] Hi all, I've attached two (annotated) PDFs with mockups of the issues we talked about on Sunday. The first has several options for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

2009-08-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Aug 2009, at 19:50, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:05:03PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: [forwarded from christian] Hi all, I've attached two (annotated) PDFs with mockups of the issues we talked about

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accelerators: make Journal 'F5'

2009-08-21 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, On 21 Aug 2009, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote: finally I pushed today the accelerators for the views. This means that the palettes of the zoom options in the frame show now: Neighbrhood F1 etc (see screenshot below). Fab! :-) As most of the keyboards does not have a search

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accelerators: make Journal 'F5'

2009-08-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Aug 2009, at 14:52, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Simon, On 21 Aug 2009, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote: finally I pushed today the accelerators for the views. This means that the palettes of the zoom

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Aug 2009, at 21:15, David Farning wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sorry, late to this party, but I've finally got a recent build with Tomeu's Ad-hoc network support installed on 2 XO's here for testing (no luck with SoaS-on-XO-1

Re: [Sugar-devel] New SoaS-on-XO-1 build done: soasxo57

2009-08-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 20 Aug 2009, at 17:57, Martin Dengler wrote: A new SoaS-on-XO-1 build soasxo57 is available. NAND size / change in size: 629.50M / 15888K / ext3 size / change in size: 1289.43M / 15164K / Package changes: --- soasxo56.tree.packages.txt 2009-08-20 00:04:07.0 +

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

2009-08-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/19/2009 05:12 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: [forwarded from christian] Hi all, I've attached two (annotated) PDFs with mockups of the issues we talked about on Sunday. The first has several options for the Journal, exploring various

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: #1129 UNSP: Holding Alt key in Home favourite view to start new instances, rather than resume

2009-08-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Won't the alt key collide with the activity switching mechanism? From a design view I think it is fine, is there a technical ALT+Tab event catching issue? Examples: 1) you're looking at your Home favorites view 2) you hold ALT 3) all the icons

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] UI mockups

2009-08-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Aug 2009, at 17:50, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: [forwarded from christian] Hi all, I've attached two (annotated) PDFs with mockups of the issues we talked about on Sunday. The first has several options for the Journal,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundling libraries, RPMs? (was Re: WatchMe-1, a VNC activity)

2009-08-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Peter, On 17 Aug 2009, at 21:20, Peter Robinson wrote: In an LTSP environment, no sysadmin is going to choose a policy that allows users to install packages, even trusted packages, to the root system, or otherwise make any sort of modification that cannot be trivially and reliably wiped

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak

2009-08-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Aug 2009, at 17:11, Eben Eliason wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design meeting tomorrow?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Christian, Looking at your To/Cc list, I think we're all in for the meeting, excepting I haven't seen a confirmation email from Daniel yet. Given the feature freeze is on Thursday, we should cover what we can, as soon as we can, and obviously pick up any additional feedback before the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Physics] JSON persistence

2009-08-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Asaf, On 14 Aug 2009, at 06:03, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: The JSON support has been up in git for a couple of days. What's next? I guess we need to do lots of testing. I'm travelling back home this weekend, I'm hoping to get my additional code changes in and tested ready for a release

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity toolbar redesign: What to do with 'simple' activities?

2009-08-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, On 14 Aug 2009, at 09:31, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/13/2009 12:43 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/12/2009 07:36 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 18:54, Christian Marc Schmidtchristianm...@gmail.com wrote: Great--should we plan on holding a design meeting

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity toolbar redesign: What to do with 'simple' activities?

2009-08-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Aug 2009, at 17:27, Walter Bender wrote: A rude hack for simple activities (See attached). Would you keep the Activity button behaviour where clicking on it would hide/reveal the title/sharing/keep widgets? Regards, --Gary ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] tool accelerator keys add objects to the world

2009-08-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 12 Aug 2009, at 01:27, Martin Dengler wrote: Make it easy to add lots of objects to the world quickly by drawing one shape, then pressing the key of the shape tool a few times to add a few copies of that object to the tool. Erase objects by hovering and pressing E (the erase

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity toolbar redesign: What to do with 'simple' activities?

2009-08-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, On 12 Aug 2009, at 11:13, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, I just ported the hello world example to the new toolbar design [1]. I remember that once Gary pointed out, that simple activities will look 'empty' when we move them to the new design (screenshot attached), Chat would

Re: [Sugar-devel] Deployment feedback braindump

2009-08-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Albert, On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:22, Albert Cahalan wrote: S Page writes: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Drakedsd at laptop.org wrote: adding an interactivity component that would be impossible to have when working with paper-based exercise books. And impossible with PDFs.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity toolbar redesign: What to do with 'simple' activities?

2009-08-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Somon, On 12 Aug 2009, at 16:52, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: I'll sit and stare at the HelloWorld toolbar screenshot, contemplating it's emptiness and the eternal void, perhaps I be enlightened, but I think this may be the price we have to pay

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 11:21, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de: I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is the mesh icon

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 12:08, Peter Robinson wrote: 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de: I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is the mesh icon appropriate? Or something completely new? I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 16:11, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de: From the user POV they are the same I guess. A local network, that does not need any infrastructure. I disagree. The mesh connections are automatic, and the presence of them does not indicate

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Daniel, On 11 Aug 2009, at 17:19, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/8/11 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: H. Are you sure this is an accurate statement? I was under the impression that mesh forwarding support had been removed/disabled from OLPCs implementation a long time ago, since soon

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 08:17, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/10/2009 11:56 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: This a bit long-winded, but please bear with me. If you know my project, skip to the end. I've been working on Browse in the context of GSoC. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified Here's my

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 18:25, Eben Eliason wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Lucian Branesculucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de: On 08/11/2009 12:14 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well,

<    1   2   3   4   5   >