[Sugar-devel] Doubt

2009-06-01 Thread deepanshu arora
Dear community members, I am Deepanshu Arora, a recent graduate from Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology, Delhi University. I have been exploring Sugar environment on my Ubuntu machine, and have found it simply wonderful. I went through FLOSS manuals for installing Sugar, and have encountered

Re: [Sugar-devel] Collaborative game using Etoys

2009-06-01 Thread Martin Bleichner
Hi Bert, I actually don't have any intention on how I want to implement it. I only have my problem and try to figure out how something like this can be done. I will have a look at your link and come back later when I can ask more specific questions. Martin 2009/5/31 Bert Freudenberg

Re: [Sugar-devel] Doubt

2009-06-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/01/2009 08:54 AM, deepanshu arora wrote: Dear community members, I am Deepanshu Arora, a recent graduate from Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology, Delhi University. I have been exploring Sugar environment on my Ubuntu machine, and have found it simply wonderful. I went through FLOSS

Re: [Sugar-devel] Help wanted remixing the Help Activity

2009-06-01 Thread S Page
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: The Help Activity gives us a place to tell Users that Sugar is a Community Project run by volunteers and we welcome them, their questions and their help That great message also belongs in the Browse home page,

Re: [Sugar-devel] modifications to schoolserver.py and ds-backup.py

2009-06-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 04:39, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been testing SoaS and implemented a couple of modificaitons to schoolserver.py and ds-backup.py that basically .. - enable an SoaS to register with an XS - read the registration info in order to allow

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Library-1

2009-06-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, This is in initial release of Library activity. I decided to release it before implementing collab features to get some feedback about UI and basic ideas of activity. So, it can browse only local objects. == Bundle == http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4089 == NEWS == *

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Help activity

2009-06-01 Thread S Page
Seth Woodworth wrote: If not for Rainbow I think that the help activity and the browser could access the same material. ?? I can visit file:///home/olpc/Activities/Help.activity/help/XO_Introduction.html fine in Browse in 8.2.1. (Does having a developer key affect Rainbow file access

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-01 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest === 1. I am reminded of the power of IRC almost daily. Not only is it a place to ask a question, but it is a window into a wealth of discussion among domain experts trying to solve problems. An analogy can be made to the Engine Culture described by David Cavallo in his PhD

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-7

2009-06-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 05/31/2009 08:56 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi folks, Latest version of Labyrinth, fresh out of the oven. == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Labyrinth/Labyrinth-7.tar.bz2 == Bundle == http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078/ == Wiki page ==

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-7

2009-06-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/01/2009 02:17 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 14:06, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: On 05/31/2009 08:56 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi folks, Latest version of Labyrinth, fresh out of the oven. == Source ==

Re: [Sugar-devel] Doubt

2009-06-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/01/2009 02:45 PM, deepanshu arora wrote: ´About this XO´ only shows me details like my name,version number etc(it is read-only). I cannot configure anything from that(like control panel). regards Deepanshu In 0.84 the menu to get to the control panel looks something like this:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-01 Thread Walter Bender
Go for it!! -walter On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:51:08AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: ===Sugar Digest === ===Help Wanted=== 6. My plea for help this week is in regard to orphaned activities. There is a list of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Help activity

2009-06-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, I see a few issues that pretty much need to be solved in order. 1. How can we enable writers to easily change the Help Content, bring it up to date and customize it for the XO and for Sugar on a Stick. 2. Who will bring it up to date and customize it? 3. How can it be localized

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Help activity

2009-06-01 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Hi, I see a few issues that pretty much need to be solved in order. How can we enable writers to easily change the Help Content, bring it up to date and customize it for the XO and for Sugar on a Stick. Who

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
Luke and Sasha are working on a new USB format that they feel will allow more machines to boot and support VM + Stick http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/USB_format Perhaps the issue you are running into (which we have definitely seen before) is related to some of the ones they are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-01 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 07:51, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Bruce Byfield wrote an article for Activities and the move to context-oriented desktops for LWN.net for which he interviewed Gary Martin. The article is subscriber-only, so I have extract a few quotes. Here's a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Library-1

2009-06-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:39, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, This is in initial release of Library activity. I decided to release it before implementing collab features to get some feedback about UI and basic ideas of activity. So, it can browse only local objects.

[Sugar-devel] What is the vision for software update?

2009-06-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, We are working on making software update (both activities and underlying OS) work for Sugar on a Stick and we aren't that clear on what the vision, spec and state of code is for software update on the XO. Does it require Root to update the software? Do students do it themselves somehow? Do

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Help activity

2009-06-01 Thread Seth Woodworth
I can't answer all or even most of your questions, but they are the right ones to be asking. Your order of solving the issues makes sense for a plan to go into place, but I think they are orthogonal issues, and will be solved by completely different groups. 1. How can we enable writers to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Running Sugar with sugar-jhbuild - questions

2009-06-01 Thread Bastien
Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org writes: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:37:56AM +0200, Bastien wrote: What is the equivalent of the .xession when running Sugar from ./sugar-jhbuild ? The thing closest to being an xsession equivalent is ~/.sugar/debug. Adding setxkbmap fr to it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:38:05AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: I've found an ordinary desktop PC (with Phoenix Award BIOS 6.00PG) that won't boot off a USB stick created by livecd-tools-024 with syslinux (tested both versions 3.75 and 3.81). The boot process drops to the boot: prompt with an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-01 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 13:57, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Part of me also wonders if using EXTLINUX might not be easier for you, too. Part of our problem is that we don't know what quirks actually exist in real hardware, so we're trying to come up with something

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Sascha Silbe wrote: BTW: How does Windows handle USB sticks with unknown formatting? I'd guess it offers to format them for you. (I want to say I have seen this recently, which means it was probably some time I was using my ext2-formatted usb stick.) -- Matthew Please do not quote my

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Library-1

2009-06-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
I have installed in to SoaS recent snapshot. Installs fine but I don't see anything when I open it. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, This is in initial release of Library activity. I decided to release it before implementing collab features to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Library-1

2009-06-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
Or to be more specific. I see the UI but none of the things that are in my Journal, which is what I think I expect to see. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.comwrote: I have installed in to SoaS recent snapshot. Installs fine but I don't see anything when I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Doubt

2009-06-01 Thread deepanshu arora
yess..m using ubuntu 8.04.1 version. i have tried to update my sugar using terminal but it is showing that my sugar is already the newest version. then ,why is control panel option not there?? Regards Deepanshu On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote: On

Re: [Sugar-devel] Doubt

2009-06-01 Thread Andrea Mangiatordi
deepanshu arora wrote: yess..m using ubuntu 8.04.1 version. i have tried to update my sugar using terminal but it is showing that my sugar is already the newest version. then ,why is control panel option not there?? Mmm... did you install it using apt? Looking at the repositories, exactly

Re: [Sugar-devel] Doubt

2009-06-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/01/2009 10:35 PM, Andrea Mangiatordi wrote: deepanshu arora wrote: yess..m using ubuntu 8.04.1 version. i have tried to update my sugar using terminal but it is showing that my sugar is already the newest version. then ,why is control panel option not there?? Mmm... did you install it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-01 Thread Sean DALY
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Eleven_Color_Ray_Variant_of_XO_Avatar_Sugar_Boot.2C_Grey_to_Color_Transition I've finally updated the wiki with my first mockup! Sorry about the delay, I lack graphics editing skills I'm afraid. I have attached comment to the mockup. I keep

[Sugar-devel] FM--DocBook (was Fwd: [FM Discuss] Fwd: Documentation ...)

2009-06-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
Here is your invitation to have at FLOSS Manuals to Docbook XML conversion. -- Forwarded message -- From: adam hyde a...@flossmanuals.net Date: Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Documentation [WAS: Re: [Localization] Help activity] To:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FM Discuss] FM--DocBook (was Fwd: Fwd: Documentation ...)

2009-06-01 Thread Douglas Bagnall
We discussed Docbook quite a bit in March and made one or two limp attempts at conversion. For example: http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2009-March/001157.html There are just two things preventing us from offering automatically generated docbook: 1. Nobody has

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-01 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 06/02/09 03:43, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Bernie Innocenti wrote: Disk /dev/sdb: 2055 MB, 2055208960 bytes 221 heads, 2 sectors/track, 9081 cylinders I don't know where fdisk, the Linux kernel, or whatever come up with these kinds of geometries. They're almost universally non-bootable. Ok,

[Sugar-devel] GSoC update: Groupthink demo

2009-06-01 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have produced a new demo activity, available at http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/SharedTextDemo-1.xo . It is a shared text editing activity, running over the usual Telepathy collaboration system. It does not save files. It does not offer colors or

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Library-1

2009-06-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:48:04PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Or to be more specific. I see the UI but none of the things that are in my Journal, which is what I think I expect to see. could you post Library logs(with debug level enabled) On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Caroline Meeks