Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Policy for activities for downstream inclusion

2010-09-14 Thread Gary Martin
On 14 Sep 2010, at 15:14, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Thanks David and Walter for the feedback, On 09/14/2010 04:09 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Farningdfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Simon

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Error/Warning Icons for alerts

2010-09-14 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Frederick, On 14 Sep 2010, at 18:56, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 09/07/2010 11:34 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 09/06/2010 09:25 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Simon

Re: [Sugar-devel] internationalization: homonym handling in genpot?

2010-09-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 11 Sep 2010, at 03:31, Erik Blankinship wrote: Just to make sure I understand your solution, if the activity is run in an untranslated language, won't Arrow|Bow be displayed? Yes. However I was thinking that you could go create/edit the po/en.po file and add in those

Re: [Sugar-devel] internationalization: homonym handling in genpot?

2010-09-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 10 Sep 2010, at 16:36, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: (maybe there is genpot list where this message is more apropos? Sorry, genpot is opaque to me.) My activity has two identical-in-english strings (homonyms) which need translating, but have two different

Re: [Sugar-devel] internationalization: homonym handling in genpot?

2010-09-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 10 Sep 2010, at 18:17, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: #TRANS: bow and arrow activeDisplay = _(Bow) #TRANS: the front of a ship istrDisplay = _(Bow) Ooh interesting, not bumped into this need myself yet, but (as a cheat) it strikes me that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Members shown in Journal for shared activity

2010-09-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Simon, On 8 Sep 2010, at 10:15, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, the following is true on 0.84 (untested so far on master, reports welcome): Machine A: Share an activity Machine B: Join Machine C: Join Machine C: leaves - Buddy A and B listed as members in Journal

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] palette timeouts (was Re: #1169 NORM: Drop down menus give no indication of their existence, also are too slow to load.)

2010-09-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 8 Sep 2010, at 10:30, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, looks like Seeta is interested in doing something about this. Do we have any kind of agreement on what changes should be done? From that ticket there seems to be agreement on making a left click immediately

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Set max_column value according to screen width. Ticket #2280

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Neeraj, Sorry to spot this so late. On 5 Sep 2010, at 15:08, Neeraj Gupta wrote: This patch set the value of maximum number of column in control panel display according to the screen resolution. I'm pretty sure there is a patch already, fairly reviewed and tested in the dextrose release

Re: [Sugar-devel] flickering mouse in an activity on an xo

2010-08-29 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 29 Aug 2010, at 15:55, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: I am experimenting with integrating the hamster graphics library into an XO activity. http://github.com/tbaugis/hamster_experiments/wiki ( found on the pycairo resources page:

Re: [Sugar-devel] flickering mouse in an activity on an xo

2010-08-29 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 29 Aug 2010, at 18:17, Erik Blankinship wrote: FWIW, the cursor flickers just like that in pygame based activities. Physics is pygame based, and the flicker was pretty annoying as the cursor is a key part of the UI, pygame also didn't pickup the Sugar cursor default shape — so

Re: [Sugar-devel] Recording time spent on an activity ?

2010-08-26 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Bastien, On 26 Aug 2010, at 09:05, Bastien bastien.gue...@wikimedia.fr wrote: There is a frequent request (at least from our tiny 150-XO deployment in Madagascar) to be able to assess the time spent on an activity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's not currently possible. Is

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 23 Aug 2010, at 18:52, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: When I launch an activity, the SVG icon used to display my activity changes appearance by rendering with the XO colors. (1) Is there a way to render gradients using the fill color? For example, if the child's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Help testing new sugar packages in F14

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Martin
On 18 Aug 2010, at 18:22, Gary Martin wrote: On 18 Aug 2010, at 16:55, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/18/2010 11:52 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, to get the new Sugar release 0.90 [1] into shape and make it a stable release we want people to test the nightly Soas snapshots [2]. In order

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Help testing new sugar packages in F14

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Martin
On 18 Aug 2010, at 16:55, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/18/2010 11:52 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, to get the new Sugar release 0.90 [1] into shape and make it a stable release we want people to test the nightly Soas snapshots [2]. In order to get the new packaged tarballs into those

Re: [Sugar-devel] Enabling logging by default

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Martin
On 18 Aug 2010, at 20:36, Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Wed, 18-08-2010 a las 15:19 -0400, Luke Faraone escribió: Hi, I was looking at Sugar on Ubuntu, and we were considering enabling logging (in ~/.sugar/debug) by default. Is there any reason not to do this, when targeting machines that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Deleting Activity directory when deleting Activity bundle

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Martin
On 19 Aug 2010, at 00:38, Thomas Gilliard wrote: Walter Bender wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 30 July 2010 13:41, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: A 'Confirm erase' alert dialog appears that asks if you want to permanently

Re: [Sugar-devel] journal sort options

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tony, On 19 Aug 2010, at 02:52, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: By new entries I mean journal entries that were created after you upgraded to a build with the journal sorting feature. if i save a write document etc its 41 years old the exceptions are clipboard items, photos and

Re: [Sugar-devel] journal sort options

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Martin
Hi James, On 19 Aug 2010, at 03:14, James Cameron wrote: Known for six months? http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1729 No this is/was a different issue. I'm pretty sure this was related to Journal entry corruption after hard crashes, leaving partial DS entries. I believe some work may have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Class vs. Exec activity.info

2010-08-17 Thread Gary Martin
On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:30, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi, I'm just starting to see some bug tickets and mention in the 0.90 notes that the activity.info class parameter is being dropped, with the exec parameter replacing it. Could someone explain

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on =0.84

2010-08-13 Thread Gary Martin
On 13 Aug 2010, at 10:46, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 07/31/2010 01:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:28 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On 30 July 2010 10:59, Anish Mangalanishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: I think you should revert to the original design. I agree that

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

2010-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi James, On 11 Aug 2010, at 04:05, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:48:00PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: ... and was also unsuccessful in convincing OLPC to prelink the shared libraries before shipping a release, thus allowing read-only pages to not get dirtied with shared

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

2010-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Aug 2010, at 18:42, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: gary wrote: P.S. of corse you'll now tell me os850 was also pre-linked (I couldn't see anything about it in the build notes for either os850 or os851), and I'll look silly for trying to test for a difference, confirming my

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

2010-08-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Aug 2010, at 01:56, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/10 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: We used to do that, the problem is that we don't control our platform as Google controls Android and you need to make sure that resources that need to be specific of each

Re: [Sugar-devel] modified Home View

2010-08-09 Thread Gary Martin
On 9 Aug 2010, at 15:37, Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com wrote: (1) Can we reach consensus re spiraling in from the MAXIMUM radius once the Ring is full or spiraling out from the MINIMUM radius once the Ring is full? I would say spiraling in from max radius. That way we can

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

2010-08-08 Thread Gary Martin
On 8 Aug 2010, at 01:37, Marco Pesenti Gritti ma...@marcopg.org wrote: 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity packaging

2010-08-08 Thread Gary Martin
On 8 Aug 2010, at 15:18, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: But the one of core ideas to not use only regular packaging systems (via PackageKit or directly) is having this, natural and desired, scenario for sugar ecosystem: * there is an activity, * several users might decide

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] [REVIEW] adding spiral to Home View

2010-08-06 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, Wanted to give it a quick run in my vm, but when I tried to apply it using patch, it gave me the error: patch: malformed patch at line 35: @@ -201,6 +202,11 @@ class RingLayout(FavoritesLayout): I'm probably doing something dumb, is this the expected way to apply the patch?

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

2010-08-06 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 6 Aug 2010, at 19:27, Walter Bender wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Gary Martin's message of Fri Aug 06 17:48:36 +0200 2010:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-08-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 3 Aug 2010, at 11:39, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:39, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:32:34PM -0400, Walter Bender

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] 10 things you should know about Sugar

2010-08-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 3 Aug 2010, at 13:55, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Martin is revisiting whether 'Journal' should be considered a View. I think how 'My Settings' is considered should also be revisited. My problem is that occasionally, due to some situation (which I myself might have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] not uninstall when a .xo bundle is deleted from the journal (was Re: Journal and Updating Software Process)

2010-08-02 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 2 Aug 2010, at 05:05, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 1 August 2010 08:20, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: long time ago we decided that when an activity bundle was removed from the journal, it should also be uninstalled. There's a report from Uruguay about

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

2010-08-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 Aug 2010, at 06:07, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 21:06, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, we just discovered that it's apparently

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] not uninstall when a .xo bundle is deleted from the journal (was Re: Journal and Updating Software Process)

2010-08-01 Thread Gary Martin
On 1 Aug 2010, at 15:20, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, long time ago we decided that when an activity bundle was removed from the journal, it should also be uninstalled. There's a report from Uruguay about teachers not expecting this and considering it a bug. What are

Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Gary Martin
On 31 Jul 2010, at 23:24, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, Just wondering, how to name Sugar Packages. The reasons to not reuse package name - it is not regular (GNU/Linux distributions) packages, because: * primal deploying model is decentralized (via 0install) not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on =0.84

2010-07-30 Thread Gary Martin
On 30 Jul 2010, at 20:28, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 30 July 2010 10:59, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: I think you should revert to the original design. I agree that 'hiding' the action buttons away in a toolbar is rather unfortunate :-( , but wouldn't placing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Datastore index corruption!

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 29 Jul 2010, at 00:21, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: (also filed as http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2132, but let's keep the discussion on the mailing-list, please). Today we figured out one of the possibly many ways in which the index of the datastore can get corrupted in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Datastore index corruption!

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 29 Jul 2010, at 15:10, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:15 +1000, James Cameron wrote: Does this block other activity, or can it be done without impact to user operations on the journal? The journal icon does not show up in the frame until the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 29 Jul 2010, at 20:45, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, At the moment Sugar's enabling the freeform and circle layouts, but the code (jarabe/desktop/favoritesview.py) also defines (and then comments out) triangle, box and sunflower layouts. The circle algorithm isn't scaling well

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 30 Jul 2010, at 02:00, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:57:35PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: See http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ModifyingSugar (towards the bottom of the page). +1 on the spiral. I like it too. I'm worried that it would scale badly,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Retro resource management game, anyone remember?

2010-07-25 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Bernie, On 25 Jul 2010, at 18:37, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Sun, 25-07-2010 a las 02:25 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió: Anyone else remember this? I played dozens of similar time-sinks Lol. but none in particular that would match your description 100%... the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hosting for Content Bundles?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Martin, Not that I am at all a fan of the content bundle drowse hack/shim idea (and that code path is pretty unsupported/maintained), but... On 23 Jul 2010, at 22:00, Martin Langhoff wrote: Discussing content bundles, I just noticed that there are no content bundles in ASLO. Here's an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Browse-webkit] Changing its bundle_id

2010-07-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Jul 2010, at 17:26, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: If bobbyp agrees, I'll rebrand it to Surf until it gets merged to master. Would that be ok? Need a new svg icon, temp or otherwise? Happy to cook something up, similar to the old surf svg involving a breaking wave (I'd

Re: [Sugar-devel] Memorize Game sharing a Created game

2010-07-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 23 Jul 2010, at 00:18, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On Fri, July 23, 2010 10:37 am, David Leeming wrote: I can definitely say that we have this issue! It is something that I have done with intermittent success before but in our current workshop we simply cannot make it work.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate bug, help!

2010-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Reinier, On 20 Jul 2010, at 00:45, Reinier Heeres wrote: Hi Gary, I agree that the AstParser class is a bit scary, but I still believe it's a good ingredient for Calculate: it allows us to do symbolic evaluation of functions. This brings us the features of plotting graphs and using

Re: [Sugar-devel] Some activities to fix (or check) for F11-0.88

2010-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
On 21 Jul 2010, at 04:24, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello Jorge, I know activities are low-priority now, but when you have time it would be good to try to fix these activities with known problems: com.laptop.Ruler, The ruler is scaled incorrectly (since Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Jul 2010, at 23:59, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 16 July 2010 10:50, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Under non-sugar environments (e.g. GNOME), myself and Paul are in agreement that in order to change brightness and volume, you should press e.g. Fn+F9 (to

Re: [Sugar-devel] question about jarabe/view/palette.py

2010-07-12 Thread Gary Martin
On 12 Jul 2010, at 20:47, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Mon Jul 12 17:22:55 + 2010: I've attached a screen dump to show what I am trying

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Resume/New pie menu menu mockup

2010-07-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mathieu, On 10 Jul 2010, at 18:52, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi Gary, On 07/10/2010 07:15 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Here's a mockup for Walter's previous pie menu suggestion (starting a new thread as Sascha though the last one was getting too long). Pie menus have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Design] Fwd: Write to Journal any time

2010-07-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 10 Jul 2010, at 23:17, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Cross-posting. -walter -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM Subject: Write to Journal any time To:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] hide OLPC mesh icon in frame when mesh is not being used

2010-07-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 10 Jul 2010, at 23:19, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, In http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2086, Simon raised the question: Do we want to hide the OLPC mesh icon (which currently appears all the time in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design Team meeting (was: Re: UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners)

2010-07-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sascha, On 8 Jul 2010, at 09:39, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Christian Marc Schmidt's message of Mon Jul 05 14:37:00 + 2010: I'm moving this discussion to sugar-devel and adjusting the subject so anybody else interested in joining the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity list favorites view

2010-07-05 Thread Gary Martin
On 6 Jul 2010, at 04:09, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:47 +1000, James Cameron wrote: The only time I've seen this is when the keyboard F2 key was pressed instead of F3. ;-} lol, that could *really* be the correct explanation! Activity ring in list view with a bogus

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Journal Volumes Backup and Restore

2010-07-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Martin, On 3 Jul 2010, at 18:13, Martin Abente mabe...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: A few screenshots of the actual work. Thanks for the screen shots! Please, if there is some other text I should add or change let me know. http://img25.imageshack.us/i/screenshotlym.png/ Perhaps, in a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Q on tracker cleanup / triage

2010-07-03 Thread Gary Martin
On 4 Jul 2010, at 00:11, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: Hi devs, 500+ unclosed bugs causes problems. I feel intimidated overwhelmed by this number. I also find it difficult to find material sift through bug reports, to find areas where I can help (although, at the

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI experiments: pop-up menus and hot corners

2010-07-03 Thread Gary Martin
On 4 Jul 2010, at 00:15, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Fri, 02-07-2010 a las 04:49 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs escribió: sugar-toolkit/kill-the-delayed-menus-for-good.patch I received no comments so far. I'll ask my testers to give an opinion whether they like it more this way

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Fwd: #2063 UNSP: Sugar should bring up an alert when an unhandled Python exception occurs

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
Oh my this would need to be one subtle alert... It's one thing for testers/developers (I.e. fantastic) but quite another for spamming our target age range users! It would definitely need to be a control panel so folks can switch it on/off. Question: is this for Activities, Sugar, or both?

[Sugar-devel] Patches to mail list, or patches to trac?

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
Hi folks, Just wanted to ask the obvious question. Patches to mail list, or patches to trac? Patches to mail-list seem great for quick random 'easy' feedback from and for any one who cares to give it, and I really like seeing little code snippets go past. However it seems vital that with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] F11-0.88 unmerged patches summary

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
On 1 Jul 2010, at 14:02, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:57, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Here's an executive summary of all outstanding patches in my queue: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/sugar-0.88-patches/ Most of these have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Fwd: [PATCH] Browse: Add support for creating multiple tabs

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
On 1 Jul 2010, at 14:12, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Any comments from the UX people? I hope the commit description is enough for imagining how it looks like (and if Anish had a link to a screenshot it would be great). Yes a screen grab would be useful, but just wanted to say that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Journal Volumes Backup and Restore

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:50:02 +0100, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 14:02, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03

Re: [Sugar-devel] F11-0.88 unmerged patches summary

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
. FWIW: The timeout sugar style is so that folks that can't necessarily read text yet (or well enough) are not stuck with dialogue messages that are of no use to them anyway. Regards, --Gary http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/sl1842.png -- Anish On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Gary Martin

Re: [Sugar-devel] Schoolserver icon

2010-06-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:39, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 28-06-2010 a las 21:36 +0100, Gary Martin escribió: A joke right? Something I missed from the early days? No joke! Sugar Labs

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-29 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 29 Jun 2010, at 22:25, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Sayamindu, On 17 Jun 2010, at 13:16

Re: [Sugar-devel] Schoolserver icon

2010-06-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 29 Jun 2010, at 23:34, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 29-06-2010 a las 02:49 +0100, Gary Martin escribió: Here's a few more misc. plays around school building shape. Maybe I'm being too literal here and should stray more down the server/resource aspect, rather than

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 30 Jun 2010, at 00:18, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: - Ideally something (Gnome I assume?) should trigger the keyboard overlay when you focus on a text field, perhaps with some hints about what the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Schoolserver icon

2010-06-28 Thread Gary Martin
On 28 Jun 2010, at 23:57, Bernie Innocenti wrote: FWIW There are some simple school house type icons that could sugarise well, pretty much something like this very quick shape, perhaps making sure it's not too church like. There's other variations that can be flat top based, and/or place a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] [Patch] Sugar Smolt Control Panel Integration

2010-06-27 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sebastian, On 27 Jun 2010, at 20:07, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: I've been working on an integration of Smolt (https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/) into Sugar as part of my GSoC. The purpose of this is to help us gather information about the hardware Sugar is running on, as well as to help

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Sur] Sobre Laberinto

2010-06-26 Thread Gary Martin
Hi folks, On 26 Jun 2010, at 06:59, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 09:31:19AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Forwarding a request about Labyrinth from a teacher from .uy:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] New Toolbar for Physics Activity

2010-06-25 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Akash, On 25 Jun 2010, at 07:46, Akash Gangil akashg1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Akash, On 24 Jun 2010, at 21:25, Akash Gangil wrote: Hi Gary, Make your changes, commit, push, and then request a merge

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] control panel window

2010-06-25 Thread Gary Martin
On 25 Jun 2010, at 07:50, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 22:37, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 24 Jun 2010, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: Hi, have heard in IRC that users are confused by the remainings

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing 'share' option from activites that don't know how to share

2010-06-25 Thread Gary Martin
On 25 Jun 2010, at 20:27, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Here is the list - Implode (No comparte en ninguna version) - Paint (No comparte en ninguna version) - Labyrinth Oh joy, interesting, so it's just0.84 that's borked up, Labyrinth is correctly disabling the share feature

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keep confusion -- round N+1

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 09:45, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: After making tests [1] in deployments for start new vs. resume we concluded that the way activity starting works on the iPhone would probably work well in Sugar, too [2]. Hehe, this is exactly the thing you would get with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] control panel window

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: Hi, have heard in IRC that users are confused by the remainings of the screen that are displayed around the control panel dialog. The person reporting the issue believes that having the control panel window covering the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] New Toolbar for Physics Activity

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Akash, On 24 Jun 2010, at 21:25, Akash Gangil akashg1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gary, Make your changes, commit, push, and then request a merge? I have filed the merge request.Please look into it. Also I made it backward compatible to previous sugar versions as you suggested. It

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing 'share' option from activites that don't know how to share

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 16:20, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Talking with the Perú team a few days ago about F11/S0.84 (both on xo-1.5 and xo-1) Teachers and testers were very confused with the 'share' option in activities where sharing does nothing, or is seriously buggy. To

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keep confusion -- round N+1

2010-06-23 Thread Gary Martin
On 24 Jun 2010, at 00:07, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 23 June 2010 15:49, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Continuing on the tradition of Keep confusion, yet again thread http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-April/023440.html I was yesterday in a

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:36, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: I think all activities should have Report bug on the toolbar somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps email-to-trac? Would be great if the Log functionality for uploading log files to a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] New share button style

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Martin
On 17 Jun 2010, at 06:56, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:42:58AM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:47:30AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 17 Jun 2010, at 13:16, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: [Apologies for the cross-posting] Hello, Thanks to the pointers provided by Peter Robinson, I got the Meego FVKBD (Free Virtual Keyboard)¹ running along with Sugar. A problem with the current FVKBD is that it supports only

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] New share button style

2010-06-16 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 17 Jun 2010, at 04:41, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, While sugarizing GCompris, I've implemented new ShareButton style in polyol[1] (while changing share status it pulsing by setting alpha channel). I think it would be not bad to use the same style for all combobox like tool

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-13 Thread Gary Martin
, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10 Jun 2010, at 19:13, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what should be the correct method of alerting users incase a write error does occur. Should I popup

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors

2010-06-13 Thread Gary Martin
On 14 Jun 2010, at 02:04, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: Gary wrote: On 13 Jun 2010, at 12:57, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: An alert like a chat or Activity sharing invitation would be nice, but one with a more visible signal is needed. We really really really ...

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-06-12 Thread Gary Martin
Hi guys, On 12 Jun 2010, at 23:53, Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Sun, 13-06-2010 a las 08:40 +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au escribió: 72 dpi icons looked good to me Maybe the logic of big icons was not eyesight but touchpad control? Though the target audience of the XO builds is still

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error in running Physics activity And how read .pdf in Read Activity

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Ganesh, Let me try this email thing again ;) On 10 Jun 2010, at 10:26, ginovation ginovat...@gmail.com wrote: Again with problem, Running sugar on Ubuntu 9.10, sugar version is 0.88, I installed physics activity by downloading from sugar/activities page. When i try to run, it gives

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems adapting activity

2010-06-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi, On 8 Jun 2010, at 19:29, Alberto Arruda de Oliveira alberto.a.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Recently, I've been trying to adapt a software a friend developed into an activity, but since I'm a bit newbie when it comes to sugar development, I'm having some trouble doing it. I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Record - Fix for ticket #2011

2010-06-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Anish, Big thanks for all your efforts! Just wanted to double check on this patch though. On 8 Jun 2010, at 21:12, anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: From: anishmangal2002 anishmangal2...@gmail.com Ctrl+w now exits the activity Why Ctrl+w? The two standards for quitting an activity in

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