Re: [Sugar-devel] XO emulator for Linux

2009-10-12 Thread Walther Neuper
Hi Edward, thank you for pointing out (and all our interested students listen to that), that ideas for new activities must be checked for how the idea can be realized more efficiently (and more flexibly accessible for the learners) by use of existing activities ... Edward Cherlin wrote:

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Turtle Art-73

2009-10-12 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29276 Release notes: * raise status flag when catching overflow error * clean up of de, it, fr, es artwork * fixed bug related to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Tetum localisation

2009-10-12 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 10/12/2009 08:18 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi I have joined this list and done a bit of localization of Bislama (Vanuatu) to learn about the localization process. A few questions: There doesnt seem to be a Tetum (Tetun) project. This is the first language of the people of

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Re : Release Turtle Art-73

2009-10-12 Thread Carlo Falciola
Seems it's not there... http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/4027/turtle_art-73.xo Not Found The requested URL /activities/4027/turtle_art-73.xo was not found on this server. ciao carlo ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flash experience

2009-10-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:17, Paulo Coutinho pa...@prsolucoes.com wrote: Anyone have experience with flash player on XO Laptop? It have a good performance? All function good? Hi, performance is not very good, but if good enough depends on what you need. There has been some work in

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

2009-10-12 Thread Carlo Falciola
Hi, I fw in checking and I also find some strings missing in: ReadEtext: Books (in the main toolbar) Toggle Bookmarks (in the Leggi bar) FullScreen (in the Vista bar) Play/Pause and all the languages names (in the Parla bar) - viewslides: most of strings (with leggi exception...) - Typing

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

2009-10-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi Carlo, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Carlo Falciola cfalci...@yahoo.it wrote: - Typing Turtle Most of comments strings: like: Hihowahyah! Ready to learn the secret of fast typing?\n Typing Turtle doesn't use the standard localization system for its lesson data: different keyboard

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread Art Hunkins
As the reporter of the above bug, and with regard to (1) below: I'm very disappointed that the Restart option has been dropped. With SoaS, I've used it when importing Activities (reboot is necessary to show the new Activity on the Activity List), and when needing to reboot into Windows (which

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:15, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: I've used it when importing Activities (reboot is necessary to show the new Activity on the Activity List) FWIW, you can simply restart X via either: CTRL+ALT+Backspace or ALT+SYSREQ+B (Alt+PrtScr+B) -- Luke Faraone

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

2009-10-12 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:26 -0200, Gabriel Eirea wrote: The problem I foresee is that you still need a way to describe the coordinates of cities and other points of interest and relate them to the svg coordinates, so that when you zoom in and out the objects are all in their corresponding

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

2009-10-12 Thread Ze maria
Hello guys, graphics are not really 'my thing', but I'll have a look and see what i can do Cheers On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:26 -0200, Gabriel Eirea wrote: The problem I foresee is that you still need a way to describe the

[Sugar-devel] Read formats...

2009-10-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Do we have a list of supported formats on the latest Read version? I couldn't find any on the activities.sl.o page and the olpc page is old... Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu onXO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread Art Hunkins
This works for me fine on the XO-1, but aborts on both my working SoaS (Strawberry) sticks (on Windows XP computers). It aborts on my EeePC900 Linux netbook as well. It semi-shuts down and never restarts. Are other SoaS developers working with SoaS *actually on a USB drive* created by the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Read formats...

2009-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Do we have a list of supported formats on the latest Read version? I couldn't find any on the activities.sl.o page and the olpc page is old... Sameer It depends. The core format is still PDF, but if the right dependencies

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

2009-10-12 Thread Ze maria
Using inkscape to convert the png file to SVG, it generates an SVG file which includes the png image: image xlink:href=fondo.png x=0 y=0 width=786 height=900 id=image2670 / The idea it to draw in the above SVG file ? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Ze maria

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

2009-10-12 Thread Bryan Berry
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:17 +0100, Ze maria wrote: Using inkscape to convert the png file to SVG, it generates an SVG file which includes the png image: image xlink:href=fondo.png x=0 y=0 width=786 height=900 id=image2670 / The idea it to draw in the

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

2009-10-12 Thread Bryan Berry
Looks ok to me but I am no expert. Did u use edge detection in inkscape? On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:33 +0100, Ze maria wrote: Hello again guys, I tried several times converting the png to svg (without embedding the png file) and results were awful... I just tried vectormagic.com (Stanford univ)

[Sugar-devel] Fw: [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu onXO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread Art Hunkins
Reading further about experimental SoaS .iso images: I've been installing them with the Fedora USB Creator utility. I'm wondering now if this is possible, or will that utility only write the original SoaS Strawberry (of the SoaS releases, that is)? Frankly, I'm not a Linux person (I'm a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422299] Re: SoaS-2-beta: doesn't recognize other USB drives

2009-10-12 Thread Art Hunkins
Has anyone tried burning soas02 to USB using the Fedora USB Creator utility? Or doesn't that work? If not, I wonder why not? (It doesn't seem to work for me.) Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: satellit satel...@bendbroadband.com To: abhun...@uncg.edu Sent: Monday, October 12,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Re : Release Turtle Art-73

2009-10-12 Thread Walter Bender
Carlo, I forced Turtle Art to use Italian and it worked fine. So I suspect that there is something wrong with either the way I am detecting the language setting: lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0] or there is something wrong with your language setting. Can you see what the above code

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Conozco Uruguay-7

2009-10-12 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4199 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29277 Release notes: Reviewer comments: This request has been approved. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422299] Re: SoaS-2-beta: doesn't recognize other USB drives

2009-10-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Try using: http://download2.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ soas02.iso r...@xxx//xxx/Desktop# ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 300 --delete-home --extra-kernel-args selinux=0 ./soas02.iso /dev/sd(x)* works on EeePC900 wirelessly also on hp Pavillion

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

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Simmons
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 python setup.py genpot when I add new Strings to the Activities.

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

2009-10-12 Thread Bryan Berry
Ze, the svg attached to this email appears to be blank On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:54 +0100, Ze maria wrote: Guys, I opted to use Multiples scans (creates a group of paths) instead of 'Edge detection', the result seems better, any ideas ? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Bryan Berry

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Re : Release Turtle Art-73

2009-10-12 Thread Carlo Falciola
Walter, If I run the code you send me into a term activity I still get a en_US even after I switched to italiano in the Sugar control panel and I got some italian strings. The same tests run in the Trisquel distro returns it_IT, but note that the trisquel installation (ubuntu-based) asked for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Re : Release Turtle Art-73

2009-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Carlo Falciola cfalci...@yahoo.it wrote: Walter, If I run the code you send me into a term activity I still get a en_US even after I switched to italiano in the Sugar control panel and I got some italian strings. The same tests run in the Trisquel distro

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

2009-10-12 Thread Ze maria
You re right, actually it has a hard link to the png: sodipodi:absref=/Users/zemariamm/Desktop/olenepal/work/ConozcoUruguay.activity/imagenes/fondo.png It's not converting the still image to svg statements On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: Ze, the

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Watch Me-2

2009-10-12 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4205 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29213 Release notes: Initial release of Watch Me to activities.sugarlabs.org. Watch Me lets you share a view of your screen with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:15:16PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote: As the reporter of the above bug, and with regard to (1) below: I'm very disappointed that the Restart option has been dropped. As the author of the patch to drop it ... this was done as part a fix to bug #1206. It would be helpful,

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

2009-10-12 Thread Ze maria
Hello again guys, I've been playing with inkscape fow a while, after importing the png using any of the options (located under Path - Trace Bitmap) in Single Scan: creates a path the software really converts the image file to a SVG (using path to draw it), if I use Multiple scans: creates a group

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread Art Hunkins
Sorry; apparently I just completely missed the discussion (possibly just didn't catch what was being discussed). IIRC, the XO-1 and SoaS work differently when either downloading Activities, or copying them via USB. (I'm forgetting now whether it's one or the other or both.) In any case, the

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

2009-10-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello, Michael just passed by the Acetarium and, since the dinner was late, we found the time to test and review his latest prototype^W patch. I'm loving how the menus suddenly are now snappy and responsive. Please, test it yourself and report back. If we like this change, I think we should go

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

2009-10-12 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 12-10-2009 a las 22:36 -0400, Bernie Innocenti escribió: Hello, Michael just passed by the Acetarium and, since the dinner was late, we found the time to test and review his latest prototype^W patch. I'm

[Sugar-devel] Live CD with network / HDD storage - possible?

2009-10-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, I came across this note at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd, can someone please fill me in on the details of how to achieve this? Much appreciated: It is also possible to use this type of Live CD to create a virtual Sugar lab for a school, where a traditional computer lab's computers are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bug 422302] Re: Soas-2-beta: drop-down menu on XO icon incomplete

2009-10-12 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:27:21PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote: IIRC, the XO-1 and SoaS work differently when either downloading Activities, or copying them via USB. (I'm forgetting now whether it's one or the other or both.) In any case, the XO-1 registers them to the list immediately, whereas

Re: [Sugar-devel] Live CD with network / HDD storage - possible?

2009-10-12 Thread James Cameron
The method myself and a team of others used week before last at a holiday camp was to take a current Knoppix Live CD, extract the compressed loopback filesystem, and then use the standard Debian tools to install a desktop package of our choice. We could have installed the sugar-desktop package if

[Sugar-devel] Zero-calorie bundles?

2009-10-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Dear Zero Install developers, as you may know, Sugar is a learning environment consisting of educational activities packaged and distributed as bundles, which are some kind of glorified zip files. This design was chosen because we wanted to enable our learners to participate in the creation of