[Sugar-devel] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-04 Thread Josh Williams
Hi everyone, I've been working on the css for ASLO, you can see where I'm at http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ . I've tried to make this fairly consistent with the design of sugarlabs.org. If any developers would be kind enough to upload some activities it would help with chec

[Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-04 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) So far we have 5 people signed up, but more are welcome as we really want to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] progress report

2009-06-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've tried the javascript-dbus bridge and it works nicely in firefox and epiphany-gecko. It triggers a security dialog, so I'll stop worrying about random scripts on the internet making exploits targeting Sugar. However, the bridge doesn't work in Browse. The logs don't say anything relevant. 200

[Sugar-devel] Success at the Gardner!

2009-06-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
The computer lab computers are now working with the 5/28 snapshot and the broadcom drivers. The broadcom drivers are needed for internet access. Thank you Sebastian! Is the process documented anywhere? I think other people with driver issues may want to try it. I've updated the wiki: http://wiki

[Sugar-devel] Random numbers and the Journal

2009-06-04 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
I'm using python's random.getrandbits() to generate unique identifiers in my program. However, I've discovered that when I start it from the Journal, I get errors, which I can trace to the random number generator producing the same sequence of random numbers that was generated when I started it th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > Sorry, I mistyped the numbers. It was really 255 heads, 63 sectors: > > (parted) p > Model: LEXAR JD EXPRESSION (scsi) > Disk /dev/sdb: 123,86,26 > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 123,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> >> Equally weird. The only "standard" ones are 64 heads, 32 sectors and >> 255 heads, 63 sectors. > > Indeed, repartitioning the USB stick with 32 sectors and 255 heads fixed > boot for a previously unbootable computer. > 32x255? That's an odd mix? Does 32x64 work o

Re: [Sugar-devel] Differing font sizes on the XO and in Sugar Emulation

2009-06-04 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, Did you have a chance to try my Activity now that it has a font problem? Any ideas? Also, is there some way I could tell if my Activity was running on an XO and adjust the font size accordingly? James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 18:26, James Simmons wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Activity Updates

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm really happy to announce this new snapshot, which brings you quite > some changes, compared to the last version. So what's waiting for you? > > * Fixed DPI size issue on the XO - should look better now > > * Included

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Activity Updates

2009-06-04 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm really happy to announce this new snapshot, which brings you quite > some changes, compared to the last version. So what's waiting for you? > > * Fixed DPI size issue on the XO - should look better now > Does not bo

Re: [Sugar-devel] cool animation w/ all-javascript space invaders

2009-06-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
For sound, you'll either have to find a wrapper that can use both and flash or use (or more precisely use it with scripting, new Audio()) and create an Audio object that uses flash or plugin media players in the background for backwards compatibility (which can use soundmanager or whatever else y

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] progress report

2009-06-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
2009/6/4 Tomeu Vizoso : > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 22:00, Lucian Branescu > wrote: >> Since I missed the meeting, here goes. >> >> I've had a really hectic past few days, with 2 exams, just getting my >> laptop back and constantly fighting my Uni network restrictions. But >> it's better now, finish

Re: [Sugar-devel] livecd-iso-to-xo for XO-1.5

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
FWIW, on the Sugar Labs side we are interested in Plymouth especially its potential for use with other distros, we've been doing mockups based on the OLPC prototype: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > chris wrote: >  >

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

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Actually the logo color linked to a version idea was in my long mail the other day about communicating the version :-) I too think 2 changes a year will give us time to cycle through the twelve variants. To make that work, the actual place where the version number is communicated (Control Panel /

Re: [Sugar-devel] New bundles for GCompris

2009-06-04 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le jeudi 04 juin 2009 à 10:05 +, Aleksey Lim a écrit : > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:42:13AM +0200, Bruno Coudoin wrote: > > I just uploaded all the individual activity bundles at the usual place > > [1]. Each bundle now contains all the locales as supported by GCompris. > > Do you use regular

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

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Flavors - now that's a horse of a different color :D Yes, it may yet help us - the whole point of "beta" and "v1" of SoaS was to simplify the arcane & mysterious Sugar Labs / OLPC version numbering system :-) Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 16

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] progress report

2009-06-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 22:00, Lucian Branescu wrote: > Since I missed the meeting, here goes. > > I've had a really hectic past few days, with 2 exams, just getting my > laptop back and constantly fighting my Uni network restrictions. But > it's better now, finished with exams and I figured out ho

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

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: > >> Yes that would be very helpful I think > > I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated > version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. Just uploaded an animated version show

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

2009-06-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 16:35, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo >>> >>> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too >>> close

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

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Eben - it's not clear how many frames the plymouth boot sequencer needs or allows; it seems possible that (similar to animated GIFs) a frame duration can be set for some parts of the sequence, while others are related to the booting itself. Even the frame size may be variable; I've been using the X

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 06/04/09 20:51, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> >>> Equally weird. The only "standard" ones are 64 heads, 32 sectors and >>> 255 heads, 63 sectors. >> >> Indeed, repartitioning the USB stick with 32 sectors and 255 heads fixed >> boot for a previously unbootable computer. >>

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Jukebox-11

2009-06-04 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4045 Release notes: * Now one can add more songs to the playlist * New translations added Reviewer comments: This request has been approved. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-d

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Jukebox-11

2009-06-04 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4045 Release notes: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4045#addon-advanced Reviewer comments: Trusted activity Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-deve

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

2009-06-04 Thread David Farning
58 posts in this thread and climbing:) I think that is a new Sugar Labs record. The results are looking great and getting better everyday. david On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM,

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

2009-06-04 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Seth Woodworth > wrote: >> >> 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,

Re: [Sugar-devel] #931 UNSP: Make "keep ratio" selection visible in the UI

2009-06-04 Thread Simon Schampijer
Am 04.06.2009 19:45, schrieb Eben Eliason: > I have no idea what you mean by "keep ratio". Can you elaborate, please? > > Thanks! > Eben Sorry, I think aspect ratio is the correct term. That each side of the selection has the same magnitude. Hope this explains it better, Simon __

Re: [Sugar-devel] #931 UNSP: Make "keep ratio" selection visible in the UI

2009-06-04 Thread Eben Eliason
I have no idea what you mean by "keep ratio". Can you elaborate, please? Thanks! Eben On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:11 AM, SugarLabs Bugs wrote: > #931: Make "keep ratio" selection visible in the UI > --+- >    Reporter:  eriko

Re: [Sugar-devel] Finally got a Soas stick booting an XO

2009-06-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:10:43PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: 3) I could find nowhere that indicated where a recent livecd-iso-to- disk script could be found, The script [2] is linked from the generic (i.e. non-XO) SoaS Linux installation page [1]. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen (Alphinux)

2009-06-04 Thread Jigish Gohil
Hello Community Here is what our artist came up with: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#openSUSE-Edu_Sugar_Boot_Theme The idea is to make it vibrant so kids get attracted to whats going on when Sugar boots up. Some artistic liberty is taken with Sugar logo, as the logo cannot

Re: [Sugar-devel] cool animation w/ all-javascript space invaders

2009-06-04 Thread Felipe López Toledo
nice example it has a tween.js with easing equations - excellent about the sounds (here is the tricky part) it uses soundmanager2 http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/ really really usefulbut it depends on a swf file (soundmanager2.swf) in the background.. so, if you don't have t

[Sugar-devel] Finally got a Soas stick booting an XO

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi All, I finally got a Soas stick (based on Soas2-200906031834.iso) booting from an XO after sitting down again for an hour or so and poking about the wiki instructions. The current wiki instructions did lead me a little astray, but before I go edit (too much) I wanted to email the list a

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

2009-06-04 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo >>> >>> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too >>> c

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

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: > Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. > If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames > over the weekend

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

2009-06-04 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo >> >> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too >> closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion i

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

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
Yes that would be very helpful I think If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames over the weekend we will meet the deadline but, we need a volunteer to do the frames (unless Gary what you have is nearly ready; my stuff is cut/pasted mockup no color control etc) thank

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

2009-06-04 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
I agree with Eben's points below... Maybe it would help if one of us mocked up the alternative he is describing? Christian On Jun 4, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >>>

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

2009-06-04 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo >> >> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too >> closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion i

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

2009-06-04 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo > > Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too > closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is > possible (networks being connected to at startup?) > > F

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:57:05PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Thanks, Peter. I think we should document this tip in the Sugar on a Stick wiki page and perhaps change the Fedora livecd-iso-to-disk script to create the MBR with parted rather than fdisk. You could also just tell fdisk what t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 06/02/09 07:10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> 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 u

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] progress report

2009-06-04 Thread Jameson Quinn
2009/6/4 Sascha Silbe > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > > I am not knowledgeable about the present state of D-Bus isolation in >> Rainbow, but if it is insufficient it should be fixed in Rainbow, not in >> the browser. >> > The bigger problem is that there

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

2009-06-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt < christianm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, meant to reply-all! Comment below: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Martin Dengler > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketi

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

2009-06-04 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Sorry, meant to reply-all! Comment below: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo >> >> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too >> closely re

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

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:24, Sean DALY wrote: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo > > Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too > closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is > possible (networks being connected to at startup?) Coloured do

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

2009-06-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo > > Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too > closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is > possible (networks being connected to at start

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

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at startup?) Fred - I'm willing to try that sunrise metaphor, tonight if I c

Re: [Sugar-devel] New bundles for GCompris

2009-06-04 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:05:35AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:42:13AM +0200, Bruno Coudoin wrote: > > I just uploaded all the individual activity bundles at the usual place > > [1]. Each bundle now contains all the locales as supported by GCompris. > > Do you use regula

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] progress report

2009-06-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: I am not knowledgeable about the present state of D-Bus isolation in Rainbow, but if it is insufficient it should be fixed in Rainbow, not in the browser. The bigger problem is that there's no (working) rainbow support at al

Re: [Sugar-devel] New bundles for GCompris

2009-06-04 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:42:13AM +0200, Bruno Coudoin wrote: > I just uploaded all the individual activity bundles at the usual place > [1]. Each bundle now contains all the locales as supported by GCompris. Do you use regular GCompris autools environment(Makefiles etc) to build separate activit

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Paint-26

2009-06-04 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4082 Release notes: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4082#addon-advanced Reviewer comments: Trusted activity Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-deve

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Email announcements from activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-06-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 06/04/09 03:17, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Since now activities.sugarlabs.org will use email notifications to > announce new releases. So activity developer needs only upload new > activity/new-activity-version, fill in release notes field and this > information will be sent to sugar-devel@ mailing li