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

2010-09-14 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 14.09.2010, at 23:15, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Walter Bender >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Farning wrote: >>>> >>&

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

2010-09-14 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Hi, > > what is the current status for activity releases in order to include > them in distributions like Soas*? Do you guys need tarballs or did you > switch over to construct the rpms from the .xo? For example the latest > Paint rpm use

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

2010-09-14 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Farning wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Simon Schampijer >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> what is the current status for activity releases in order to include >>> them in distributions like Soas*

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks

2010-09-14 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Does anyone know whether SoaS USB sticks will boot onto the new 7" netbooks > (<$100US)? > > The OS is WindowsCE 6.0 professional, and there are 3 USB2.0 ports. Video > resolution is 800x480. Unlikely as anything that runs WindowsCE is likely

Re: [Sugar-devel] Enhancing Sugar to support multiple users

2010-09-07 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 09/06/2010 03:40 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Drake  wrote: >>> >>> On 5 September 2010 13:57, Christoph Derndorfer >>>  wrote: >>>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Enhancing Sugar to support multiple users

2010-09-06 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 5 September 2010 13:57, Christoph Derndorfer > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just created a new ticket (http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2292) to get >> some discussions started on what changes need to be made to Sugar to work >> well in an environ

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for comments: A Proposed way to report Soas tests

2010-09-01 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Tom and all... > You have done a great job organizing this.  The only thing I would suggest > is adding something for Mac testers, maybe a separate chart, that refers to > the method (and version of the method) they are using... Virtual Box

Re: [Sugar-devel] screenreader for sugar

2010-09-01 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 14:10, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 14:08, Esteban Arias >> wrote: >>> hi, >>> we can colaborate with this proyect. >> >> Excelent, have you tried already orca with Sugar? And with GNOME? > > I woul

[Sugar-devel] Read in Fedora 14

2010-08-31 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
It lives well it will do in updates testing as of tomorrow's compose. The appropriate update that needs your attention (and positive karma) is: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-python2-desktop-2.31.1-5.fc14 So with luck SoaS 4 should have a working eReader. Cheers, Peter ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Add dependency on pyXDG

2010-08-30 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Hi, > > pyxdg [1] provides facilities to access freedesktop.org standards. We > would like to add it as a dependency to the sugar platform. > > Real life example [2]: In sugar-jhbuild this will not discover that > these files are not under

Re: [Sugar-devel] New dependency on gnome-keyring-daemon (was: Re: [RELEASE] sugar-0.89.5)

2010-08-30 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:58, Sascha Silbe > wrote: >> Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Fri Aug 27 12:21:19 +0200 2010: >> >>> * Launch gnome-keyring-daemon from sugar-emulator >> This means I need to add a new dependency to sugar-jhb

Re: [Sugar-devel] New dependency on gnome-keyring-daemon (was: Re: [RELEASE] sugar-0.89.5)

2010-08-29 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Fri Aug 27 12:21:19 +0200 2010: > >> * Launch gnome-keyring-daemon from sugar-emulator > This means I need to add a new dependency to sugar-jhbuild (as will distro > packagers once Sugar 0.90 is release

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Fwd: Dependency on python-cjson - dead upstream]

2010-08-24 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:54:38AM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> >> El Tue, 24-08-2010 a las 10:10 +0100, pbrobin...@gmail.com escribió: >>> >>> Hi Bernie, >>> >>> Funny this sho

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Fwd: Dependency on python-cjson - dead upstream]

2010-08-24 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
Hi Bernie, Funny this should come up. When Sebastian and I were packaging up sugar and deps for EPEL-6 I discovered this and scratched my head over it but haven't had time to follow up. Looking through the various sugar packages I see most of them use python-simplejson so if it could be verified t

Re: [Sugar-devel] screenreader for sugar

2010-08-20 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > is there any interest in a deployment somewhere for a screenreader > that allows blind people use the Sugar UI when paired with keyboard > navigation? > > I think most of the pieces are there, but without knowing how it could > be use

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

2010-08-08 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 15:15, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> I tihnk I have been sloppy with my words, so let me clarify two things: >>> >>> - killing processes should be done only to avoi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity packaging

2010-08-04 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:50 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without >> elevated permissions. > > Enhancing deb or rpm to be able to do this would be a win all around. > > A nonroot install would install under one's home directory, if either

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity packaging

2010-08-04 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > On 07/06/2010 11:51 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> Ok, I think the requirements for activity bundles could be: >> >> 1) Support multiple CPU architectures >> >> 2) Support multiple distros (and different versions of same distro) >> >> 3

Re: [Sugar-devel] Read and evince issues in F-14 (again!)

2010-08-04 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:12, pbrobin...@gmail.com > wrote: >> So it seems somehow that Read is the one with all the bad luck at the >> moment... >> >> It currently broken in F-14 and rawhide due to the gn

[Sugar-devel] Read and evince issues in F-14 (again!)

2010-08-03 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
So it seems somehow that Read is the one with all the bad luck at the moment... It currently broken in F-14 and rawhide due to the gnome-python2 evince bindings being disabled as it doesn't look like at the moment that they're coming back anytime soon [1]. I'm going to work on this from a couple o

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-07-29 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Paul Fox's message of Wed Jul 28 16:01:22 +0200 2010: >> sascha wrote: >>  > Even your latest patch still contains code that is specific to OLPC >> builds and will break on other systems. >>  > Of course it's perfectly fine for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 14 / SoaS 4 changed heads up

2010-07-25 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:21 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I thought I'd send a message to give people a heads up to the changes >> that are going into Fedora 14 that might have an i

[Sugar-devel] Fedora 14 / SoaS 4 changed heads up

2010-07-24 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
Hi All, I thought I'd send a message to give people a heads up to the changes that are going into Fedora 14 that might have an impact on sugar. So the major changes are... in no particular order: - gnome 3 and all the associated changes. There's going to be api changes. This has already hit us

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

2010-07-21 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Yeah > How we detect what keyboard is present? Wouldn't you be better of using xkeys or what ever gtk uses and they you don't need to what keyboard is present, it would just work. Peter > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Walter Bender >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hosting activities(and its deps) sources(and not only) tarballs

2010-07-21 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on Zero Sugar packaging infrastructure and wandering how to > solve activity tarballs/bundles/etc hoisting issue. How does 0sugar work with multiple architectures such x86/x86_64/ARM? Peter > Until now, I kept in mind

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [DESIGN] Restart

2010-07-17 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Sat, 17-07-2010 a las 02:25 +0200, Sebastian Dziallas escribió: > >> I think the last time I looked into this, olpc-switch-desktop depended >> on olpc-dm, which comes with the entire olpc-utils package. Hence, >> we're currently going w

[Sugar-devel] SoaS-4 Feature Freeze approaching

2010-07-15 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
Hi All, Just a reminder that SoaS-4 feature freeze is rapidly approaching. The feature freeze is July 27th. So we're a little under 2 weeks away from feature freeze so please get your features in. If you need help or have queries regarding the process please email the soas list. Regards, Peter B

Re: [Sugar-devel] icon-slicer and sugar-artwork

2010-07-11 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from pbrobin...@gmail.com's message of Sun Jul 11 16:47:41 + > 2010: > >> [...] It currently needs icon-slicer but I >> think its an old dep that is still in configure.ac but no longer used, >> if I drop it out of configure.ac an

[Sugar-devel] icon-slicer and sugar-artwork

2010-07-11 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
Hi All, Sebastian and I are going through the various build requires to get sugar built for EPEL-6 and in the process I was looking at the requirements for sugar-artwork. It currently needs icon-slicer but I think its an old dep that is still in configure.ac but no longer used, if I drop it out of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Opportunity: migration from Gconf to GSettings

2010-07-08 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:01, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> while drafting the 0.90 schedule [1] I came across the migration from >> Gconf to GSettings in GNOME [2]. This is dependent on introspection, so >> not something for 0.90 but w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-08 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
Hi Chris, Well done to the team for all the hard work! > Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to > talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future.  We've got a few > announcements to make: > > XO-1: > = > > OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release of the

Re: [Sugar-devel] gconf: sugar <-> gnome

2010-07-08 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 19:29, Esteban Arias wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do you think that is better use same keys gconf on sugar and gnome to >> maintain the same configuration? >> >> For example, to set mouse keys on sugar, I should use: >> '/desktop

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Using providers database for 3G modem configuration

2010-07-06 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > anybody has input on this proposed feature? > > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1630 > > http://people.collabora.co.uk/~tomeu/providers_database.png I presume that's the ModemManager provider DB? Peter __

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Write-70

2010-07-06 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Sugar Labs Activities wrote: > Activity Homepage: > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4201 > > Sugar Platform: > 0.86 - 0.88 > > Download Now: > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26971/write-70.xo > > Release notes: > Fix startup zoom level (sl#1121