[Sugar-devel] Adding support for new datastore to the XS...

2009-05-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
Tomeu, Sugaristas, looking at the new DS as implemented in SoaS. To confirm, is this http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Datastore_Rewrite what is implemented in 0.84? Maybe tagging the wikipage with a version moniker helps? Something at the top that says Sugar 0.88... cheers, m

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

2009-05-06 Thread Bastien
Great Sugar Digest and pointers, thanks. Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com writes: Diego is of the believe that creativity is a skill that can be taught; For the sake of conceptual clarity, I would myself consider creativity as a meta-skill: the skill to activate other specific skills and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] versus, not

2009-05-06 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:26:31AM -0700, Alan Kay wrote: Tim Gallwey is one of the best teachers I've ever observed, and he had a number of extremely effective techniques to help his students learn the real deal very quickly Any links for the google-impaired? I just found loads of general

Re: [Sugar-devel] Adding support for new datastore to the XS...

2009-05-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:48:26PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: looking at the new DS as implemented in SoaS. To confirm, is this http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Datastore_Rewrite what is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] backup : problem opening /library/users/XXXX/datastore-xxxxx/store

2009-05-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Let's keep this on the list. Is that from a recent SoaS? The datastore storage format has changed then, and we need to add support to Moodle for it. More work! :-p Done - not tested much -- the zipfile you've

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] backup : problem opening /library/users/XXXX/datastore-xxxxx/store

2009-05-06 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Martin Langhoff ... Note: It won't list metadata-only entries. If there's no 'data' file, it's not listed. Consider the use case where the Journal is used as an log for user

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-48

2009-05-06 Thread Walter Bender
== .xo == http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/26052/turtle_art-48.xo == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-48.tar.bz2 == Features == * BUG FIX: json incompatibility with F11 * New artwork * New unified (improved?) way of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] versus, not

2009-05-06 Thread Alan Kay
My take on this over the years has excluded labels and categories for a variety of reasons. But I do think thresholds are important for most areas of learning. For example, at what level would an actually literate person consider a high school graduate to be fluent in literate actions and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] backup : problem opening /library/users/XXXX/datastore-xxxxx/store

2009-05-06 Thread Hamilton Chua
Martin, Thanks, sorry I don't have a lot of activities to backup yet on my test SoaS. I'll give this a go today and report back the results here. Best, Hamilton On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 19:23 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Martin Langhoff

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering about having a global dictionary key in sugar, just like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of that word (or those

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-06 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: I was wondering about having a global dictionary key in sugar, just like the view source key. When you select a word (or words), and press that key, a window should pop up, showing the meaning of that word (or those words). I think it's a great idea, very much in the