[Sugar-devel] GSoC proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-04-11 Thread chirag jain
Hi !! I have implemented a small application that works as a system side keyboard speaker in sugar. To test it please download the keboard_speaker.zip from the following link: http://code.google.com/p/speech-synthesis/downloads/list I want some reviews on it. Regards -- Chirag Jain Undergrad

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

2009-04-11 Thread Geza Kovacs
On 04/11/2009 07:07 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > It seems like this conversation is somewhat at cross-purposes. Martin > discusses the general case of multicast from an arbitrary client through > an access point serving many clients with a mixture of multicast and > unicast traffic. Well know

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-11 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Quick comment: you should probably be thinking about running activities *in place from their ZIP file* rather than storing the "unpacked" form in the Journal. This will lead to a much simpler implementation in the short term, since activities still have a single identity. There are a number of de

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

2009-04-11 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
It seems like this conversation is somewhat at cross-purposes. Martin discusses the general case of multicast from an arbitrary client through an access point serving many clients with a mixture of multicast and unicast traffic. Well known performance problems result. However, Geza proposes a sp

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

2009-04-11 Thread Geza Kovacs
Since you apparently have more experience with multicasting over wireless I'll assume it's not a realistic option in this context (though it might nevertheless be an interesting experiment to try if have spare time over the course of GSoC after finishing a unicast-based implementation). Returning

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

2009-04-11 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > * the license; so I'm not even sure if we'd be allowed to package and > redistribute them (it sounds like you'd only get the permission to > distribute an ISO or to include the stuff at build time, but IANAL!). > > * how to package it,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

2009-04-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
t nevertheless, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much > long after newer snapshots appeared on dl.sl.o. > > Here's the link: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas2-20090411.tar.gz > > Thanks to all those who continuously tried the images! > > To thos

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

2009-04-11 Thread Dave Bauer
> issue and will be fixed once we resume building. > > So, please note: I just built this over the weekend to sort this out. > You can grab it nevertheless, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much > long after newer snapshots appeared on dl.sl.o. > > Here's the li

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

2009-04-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
grab it nevertheless, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much long after newer snapshots appeared on dl.sl.o. Here's the link: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas2-20090411.tar.gz Thanks to all those who continuously tried the images! To those who celeb

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-5

2009-04-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 11 Apr 2009, at 06:48, Michael Stone wrote: > >>> P.S. One notable bug for XO 8.2 distro users, is that adding images >>> from the Journal is currently broken (bumping into rainbow), adding >>> images works fine on sugar-jh

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Requesting review for Sugar-gsoc application "Marbles"

2009-04-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 04:30:47PM +0530, Puneet Girdhar wrote: > I agree, It should be extended to GTK too, since it's a live face >for sugar or we can use QT+GTK support to make it real platform >independent & rich functionality with QT widget st

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art in sugar-jhbuild--defaults to Spanish

2009-04-11 Thread Walter Bender
Are you running it from outside of Sugar? If so, you should try pullling the most recent version from git, which should default to your default locale. I've never seen the failure you have described from within Sugar. From within Sugar, the relevant code is: lang = locale.getdefaultlocale(

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sound in SoaS

2009-04-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 11.04.2009, at 12:46, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:54:25AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 11.04.2009, at 11:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> >>> The SoaS-Beta that came out on Thursday afternoon had some sound >>> fixes. >> >> >> AFAIK it only added the missing gst-speech

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:30:00AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > Now here's a mess of ideas from which these three basic intuitions originate: > > 1. It would be nice to be able to generate various views of "what the user can > do" with shell globs rather than by writing complicated queries ove

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Requesting review for Sugar-gsoc application "Marbles"

2009-04-11 Thread Puneet Girdhar
Hi Jonas, I agree, It should be extended to GTK too, since it's a live face for sugar or we can use QT+GTK support to make it real platform independent & rich functionality with QT widget styles on GTK ( just idea ) . For GSOC proposal, you can find a small discussion of GTK support for Mar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-5

2009-04-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:33:06AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > On 11 Apr 2009, at 06:48, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > >> P.S. One notable bug for XO 8.2 distro users, is that adding images > > >> from the Journ

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sound in SoaS

2009-04-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:54:25AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 11.04.2009, at 11:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: > >> The SoaS-Beta that came out on Thursday afternoon had some sound >> fixes. > > > AFAIK it only added the missing gst-speech plugin for Speak, no? Any > other changes? Too bad

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

2009-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Geza Kovacs wrote: > According to http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=4292735 > then the slowest transmission speed, Mode1 (6 Mbps) is only beneficial > for multicasting over very large distances; in the case of the AWGN I am sure they did their

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-5

2009-04-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 11 Apr 2009, at 06:48, Michael Stone wrote: > > >> P.S. One notable bug for XO 8.2 distro users, is that adding images > >> from the Journal is currently broken (bumping into rainbow), adding > >> images works fin

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sound in SoaS

2009-04-11 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > AFAIK it only added the missing gst-speech plugin for Speak, no? Any other > changes? Too bad there is no change log. speak is working for me with the latest beta (tested on eee only), but I couldn't manage to test any other activity --

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sound in SoaS

2009-04-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 11.04.2009, at 11:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: The SoaS-Beta that came out on Thursday afternoon had some sound fixes. AFAIK it only added the missing gst-speech plugin for Speak, no? Any other changes? Too bad there is no change log. - Bert - __

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Requesting review for Sugar-gsoc application "Marbles"

2009-04-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:24:21PM +0530, Puneet Girdhar wrote: >*Marbles* > Marbles aim to build a UI Designer/Creator tool for sugar . The >Tool would allow users to drag and drop widgets. Edit the widgets and >their properties and also to cre

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-5

2009-04-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Michael, On 11 Apr 2009, at 06:48, Michael Stone wrote: >> P.S. One notable bug for XO 8.2 distro users, is that adding images >> from the Journal is currently broken (bumping into rainbow), adding >> images works fine on sugar-jhbuild and should be fine on Soas distros >> and xo-rawhide (thou

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Requesting review for Sugar-gsoc application "Marbles"

2009-04-11 Thread Puneet Girdhar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Puneet Girdhar Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM Subject: Requesting review for Sugar-gsoc application "Marbles" To: "Google Summer of Code @ Sugarlabs list" Cc: Jameson Quinn Hi all, After Jameson encouraging support, I think I should dis