[Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Maintainers, please update your packages!

Hi folks, this concerns Sugar Activity Maintainers, as well as Fedora Package Maintainers, which is also the reason, why it was cross-posted. As you might know, the upcoming release of Sugar 0.84 is scheduled for today. Now, how does this concern Sugar on a Stick? Well, we'd like to be able to

[Sugar-devel] Sugar GSoC meeting- wed 17:00 UTC/12:00 EST

Mentoring organization applications for GSoC are due Mar 9-13, so Sugarlabs have got to get our $#!* together. We need more than 4 mentors, a better list of project ideas, ideas for how to bring pe

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-03-02

===Sugar Digest=== We are on the eve of the release of Sugar (Sucrose 0.84). This is the second major release since Sugar Labs was founded and the community has shown great discipline in keeping to the release schedule while simultaneously making great strides in usability and stability. The compl

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugar Live CD on Mac or PC?

Hi Carol, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > > Would it have worked if I had just booted my MacBook from it? > Yes. You can choose to boot from a CD by holding the C key before and for the first few seconds after power-on. > How would I have used it on a PC? > See https

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-41

== .xo == http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25924/turtle_art-41.xo == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-41.tar.bz2 == Features == * updated it artwork == Documentation == http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt enj

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Etoys 4.0.2206

== Sources == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2206.tar.gz http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-100.tar.gz == Packaged == http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2206-1.noarch.rpm http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-100.xo == Ne

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

As long as it can be overridden (and I presume it could be.) I have a problem in SynPhony of having many contributers to the database content that are stored along with license details in a table within the database. Static info in the software packaging is insufficient. 2009/2/28 Bernie Innocent

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:08:38PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >The changes to sugar might be minimal but the changes to the >underlying OS are not so simple. > >From my (which is very basic) understanding there is patches to at >least the kernel, initscripts, upstart and telepathy and possibly db

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

When it comes time to build the LiveUSB images, one should consider the options, below, from the livecd-iso-to-disk.sh script. Unless a home.img file is created (by specifying a --home-size-mb NNN), the user may be surprised, disappointed, or frustrated with the difficulty in keeping saved Activit

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

Elena of Valhalla wrote: > no, GPL doesn't[1], a pointer is enough, but GNU FDL does > > [1] "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this program. If not, see ." Not true, that sentence is there to cope with projects which

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Chat-64

== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/Chat-64.tar.bz2 == Bundle == http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-64.xo == NEWS == * Sucrose 0.84.0 Release * Translation updates: pt, ne ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Suga

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Read-65

== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Read/Read-65.tar.bz2 == Bundle == http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Read-65.xo == NEWS == * Sucrose 0.84.0 release * Translation updates: pt, de, sv, ne ___ Sugar-devel mailing l

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

Let me contribute a nice Sugarized icon for a "Sugarstick" (?) activity, with the hopes that someone with the smarts to build it will be inspired to do so! - Eben On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Brian Jordan wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> When we fi

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-presence-service-0.84.0

== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.84.0.tar.bz2 == NEWS == * 0.84.0 Final release * No changes since 0.83.3 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org htt

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Farning wrote: > When we first made the first sugar on USB keys, Brian Jordan was in > contact with the Ubuntu LiveCD/USB guru. May he can restart those > conversations:) > Attaching Simon Peter (probono), author of Sbuntu ( http://n2.nabble.com/Sbuntu-8.10

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

When we first made the first sugar on USB keys, Brian Jordan was in contact with the Ubuntu LiveCD/USB guru. May he can restart those conversations:) david On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, wrote: > tomeu wrote: >  > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 21:47, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: >  > > Make the LiveC

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Image Viewer 6

Hello, I have just release Image Viewer activity version 6, which, apart from a slew of translations changes (thanks!!) contains a fix by Tomeu which removes some pretty ugly hacks in the journal entry writing code. Thanks, Sayamindu NEWS: * Remove hacks needed because of d.sl.o #258 (Tomeu) * New

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Terminal 23

Hi all, Terminal 23 has been release. Apart from translation updates, it now has a default font size of 10, instead of 8. Enjoy, Sayamindu NEWS: * Change default fontsize to 10 from 8 * New translations XO: http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25920/xpi/terminal-23.xo Source:

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [support-gang] A furthere comment on Paint

-- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron Konstam Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:26:40 -0600 Subject: [support-gang] A furthere comment on Paint To: XO Laptop Developers Cc: support-gang Just to defend my honor I think I can say that those who think running Paint is intuitively obvious hav

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [RELEASE] TurtleArt-39

== .xo == http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25918/turtle_art-39.xo == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-39.tar.bz2 == Features == * updated de and sv artwork == Documentation == http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleA

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Jukebox v7 released

Hi all, I just released Jukebox activity v6. This is an activity for playing audio/video. You can download the .xo file from [1], the source is available at [2]. New features are: * share/keep button hidden * new translations added [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~kushal/Jukebox-7.xo [2] http://downl

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

tomeu wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 21:47, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > > Make the LiveCD have a usb maker on the desktop when launched. > > That sounds like a really really good idea to me. since i only discovered this recently, i'll mention that ubuntu ships with just such a livecd-to-us

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

here is another site for ideas. Someday it woudl be cool to let people assemble their own Sugar release with language and activity choices. http://www.susestudio.com/ On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if it may be possible to lower further the barrier

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

>> To me, Bitfrost was just one more lofty windmill OLPC tried to tilt because >> it seemed like an interesting challenge.  I'm not clear why Sugar needs more >> protection from rogue activities than a normal desktop environment has from >> rogue applications. >> Reinventing the desktop as a constr

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Tarballs Due

Simon Schampijer wrote: > Dear Sucrose Maintainers, > > please provide source tarballs for the Sucrose 0.84 Release [1] by the > end of the Second of March and announce them as explained here: > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release#Module_release > > This will be our *Golden Image* -

[Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 21:47, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > Make the LiveCD have a usb maker on the desktop when launched. That sounds like a really really good idea to me. Could we do a Sugar activity that downloads the last stable image and writes it to a usb stick or sd card? How could we make

[Sugar-devel] design bugs and unimplemented features (was Re: easier installation of soas)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 02:20, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: >> >> On 2 Mar 2009, at 00:21, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> >>> Point of clarification. >>> >>> The next sticks we are getting will not be randomly given out to >>> people. >>> >>> We are going to