[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Alert - sugar labs
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:20 AM Subject: Fwd: Google Alert - sugar labs To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22919/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Google Alerts googlealerts-nore...@google.com Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:19 AM Subject: Google Alert - sugar labs To: sdaly...@gmail.com Google News Alert for: sugar labs $100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA Bender left OLPC last year to found Sugar Labs, which promotes the ... The software can be downloaded for free from the Sugar Labs website as part of the ... This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick: una piattaforma educativa su penna USB
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[Sugar-devel] picked up by TechRadar (UK)
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/-sugar-on-a-stick-os-arrives-610416 SoaS is splendidly monikered ! Sean ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] picked up by TechWhack (India)
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets
FWIW, Apple announced in May an iMac EFI firmware upgrade with improved support for ATI Radeon HD 4850 video: http://support.apple.com/downloads/_iMac_EFI_Firmware_Update_1_4 Sean On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: This is a great discussion. Thanks, What are the next steps in figuring this out? Is there something I can file a ticket on? On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Amir Ansaria...@open-edu.co.uk wrote: But the problem is that 'modeset' works with other machines and takes advantage of a very useful kernel feature. Adding a blanket 'nomodeset' removes this feature - it allows Mac booting, but to the detriment of all other hardware. I wouldn't say all other hardware. Intel graphics are the only one in mainline as of 2.6.30 that take advantage of modesetting, and hopefully Fedora's ATI modesetting will be accepted into the mainline for .31. At this point (things may be different in a year or two), kernel modesetting doesn't add much performance wise. bobby Ideally, there should be a way to detect whether it's needed and boot accordingly. Hence the initrd notion (which would be complex, and I don't know of it working on any other distro), or the simple addition of a boot menu option. I don't think it's a Fedora bug, this is something for the kernel mailing list... ;-) On 19 Jun 2009, at 01:32, Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:23:38AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Is there a way we can modify SoaS so that mac users don't have to [add nomodeset to the kernel command line] but it still works for everyone? Yes (SoaS could put nomodeset in its kernel command line). Also you/we/someone should file a Fedora bug if there isn't one already. Martin ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Glyn Moody on SoaS!
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/sugar-on-stick-v1-strawberry-is-out.html ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc 100 views in the first few minutes... ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc 100 views in the first few minutes... The marketing team @ SL is the stuff of legends. Congrats. (I am sure there are significant challenges in absorbing handling the attention. But that's for later. Great handling of comms, PR and monitoring.) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
thanks Martin We haven't even hit PR Newswire yet in the US, that will be around 2PM in our timezone :-) Sean On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc 100 views in the first few minutes... The marketing team @ SL is the stuff of legends. Congrats. (I am sure there are significant challenges in absorbing handling the attention. But that's for later. Great handling of comms, PR and monitoring.) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Picked up by Heise UK
http://www.h-online.com/open/Sugar-on-a-Stick-1-0-released--/news/113604 they did a good job, used the image and linked directly to the Strawberry page ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] bad links on SoaS wiki page help please
Yeah, thanks for putting that there! It's good to have another reference there. I finally went ahead and edited the SoaS main page a bit, too. As the main wiki page is also directing to the Strawberry page, I hope that most people will get the information from there. Thanks for the great work on the press release! :) --Sebastian Sean DALY wrote: OK I added a direct link to the Strawberry page at the top of the page, hopefully visitors will go straight there. A pancake button would be better, but I don't know if the wiki can do that. The SoaS page is well-referenced so visitors should be guided from that page. thanks Sean On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: The Sugar on a Stick wiki page (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick) still talks about and links to beta in several locations. I've cleaned it up a little bit but I'm concerned about not swapping the correct links, can anyone help with that quickly? thanks Sean ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their pupils. In the context of an activity, how do teachers do that? I don't think there's a clear mechanism, and I suspect that constructing such a mechanism might be simple. I believe that such a feature might also help make a case for usefulness to teachers. A few points/assumptions: 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe sugar.activity.assess. Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. I don't know the code well enough. :) 1. I assume there will be a server that can collect this data, maybe Moodle, maybe not. Something like... * Activity is suspended. * Assessment data is written to datastore. * Some process reaps recent assessment data periodically and syncs to server if possible, or fails gracefully if not, storing for future sync. 2. I believe that every activity should be able to report the most basic assessment metric, which is time spent in an activity. For young students, time spent in an activity is one of the most reliable predictors of mastery, and because that data can surely be collected automatically, it should be made available automatically. 3. I believe that it should be possible for an activity to specify additional, simple assessment. This could be quite a rathole, but an initial possibility could be score/max score and timestamp. So one can imagine an activity passing along data that might look something like this: gregdek, mongo, rectangle-quest-1, 18/20, timestamp 08:31:44. gregdek, mongo, rectangle-quest-2, 11/20, timestamp 08:52:08. gregdek, mongo, time-in-activity, 23 minutes, timestamp 09:04:56. Is this an interesting idea? If so, I'd love to sit down with folks at the hackfest at LinuxTag and draw up a spec for how it might be implemented. I think it's very interesting and have heard from several people similar interest: GCompris, OLPC Austria, IFL (TeacherMate), etc Will be great to talk about it in LT, maybe we could hold a session in the sugar booth? Or better sunday as a FUDCon session? I have scheduled two hackfest sessions at FUDCon. 1st session, Friday afternoon, from 2pm to 4pm. The goal is to get people together, discuss the goal (spec for sharing assessment data) and get a wide range of ideas. 2nd session, Sunday from 10am onwards, will be hacking to get some of this idea implemented. Simon, Tony and I are all planning to be there. I hope we can get lots of other folks there too, from various projects. --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org.___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/sugar-labs-announces-availability-sugar-stick-learning-platform-runs-pc-netbook-classroom-22146 http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/06-24-2009/0005049403EDATE= ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Greg DeKoenigsbergg...@redhat.com wrote: Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Couple of bits of experience from Moodle-land - It is probably worth matching SCORM's API when looking at reporting back. There is also an IMS standard for this, but I forget which one. Both cases are overcomplicated, but show what people have built already... which is important at interoperability time, because the moment you get assessment data in Sugar, people will say and I want the data fed to my student tracking sw. - Computer-based assessment is a red herring. A big one. Everyone asks for it, but it is essentially useless. The early ages of CBT were also the early ages of AI. The myth was planted that computers would get smarter, and help in assessment. They didn't get any smarter, they got faster. So they can check (really fast now!) whether you did something mind-numbingly trivial. Sugar is not about getting users to do something mind-numbingly trivial. Sugar Activities are open-ended, try to have low barrier of entry, no ceiling. Which means: there is no way for a computer to assess them. There is a very interesting divide in SCORM material for education. The really good activities are open ended, and have no assesment. All the activities that _have_ assessment wired-in, and mechanical and mind-numbingly trivial. There is a case for giving users and activity developers the option, so they can play with it, and come to terms with computer-based assessment in their own time... Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess Yes, they do that with Moodle too :-) And when they find that it isn't magical AI that solves their hard assessment problems, they still use it a bit but not as an important means of assessment... just like they use simple multiple-choice quizzes on paper. IOWs: users imagine themselves using computer-based assessment tools a lot more than they do in practice. Also of interest: entry of (human assigned) assessment data is a big hit in some schools where Moodle integrates with other IS systems. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ down again
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote: On 06/23/09 22:09, David Farning wrote: The list is at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems . I am not sure why it is not showing up as a public list. Bernie, Is there a reason this list is not public? The list was initially intended to discuss security-sensitive topics too, so we created it as a private, invite-only list. Later, we decided to keep these threads private and open up the list. I've reconfigured it to be publicly visible now, though the archives are still private. Ok thanks. That seems a reasonable step. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Test Release of Listen Spell
Hi everyone, There is a test release of Listen Spell activity. I want the community members to please test the activity and give some feedbacks. Please note that the activity uses the gst-plugin-espeak for the speech synthesis. download the xo file from http://code.google.com/p/listen-spell/downloads/list you can download a XO specific rpm package of gst-plugin-espeak from http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/xo/ Be sure to send some feedbacks. Thanks and Regards Chirag ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Some initial thoughts on i18n for Karma
what if there were several audio files for the same html element?example: en_answer.ogg //suppose answer is div id=answer ... possible answers = yes, no a better solution: en_answer_yes.ogg en_answer_no.ogg also, what about? LANG_CODE/answer_yes.ogg LANG_CODE/answer_no.ogg felipe. 2009/6/23 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:31 -0500, Felipe López Toledo wrote: There is a somewhat undocumented algorithm to figure out fallback locale (eg: if locale is ne_NP, look inside ne_NP, if not found, look inside ne, and so on) I really like this idea. so how about naming convention for the audio files langCode_htmlElementId.ogg ? you mean something like: en_content.ogg//suppose content is div id=content ... en_answer.ogg //suppose answer is div id=answer ... ? exactly -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] we've been slashdotted
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Test Release of Listen Spell
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:26:15PM +0530, chirag jain wrote: Hi everyone, There is a test release of Listen Spell activity. I want the community members to please test the activity and give some feedbacks. Please note that the activity uses the gst-plugin-espeak for the speech synthesis. download the xo file from http://code.google.com/p/listen-spell/downloads/list To ease usage your activity you can upload it to ASLO[1]. There is no need to nominate it to public[2] as final version just keep it experimental[3]. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Authors [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Glossary#Public_activity [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Glossary#Experimental_activity -- Aleksey ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Picked up by OpenNet Russia
http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=22300 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] we've been slashdotted
Sunjammer is holding up so far. The FSF has some very fat pipes at their co-lo facility. david On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire
Reuters and Yahoo, and a number of print and TV station websites in the US have published from PR Newswire: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS103017+24-Jun-2009+PRN20090624 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sugar-Labs-Announces-prnews-318069825.html?x=0.v=1 On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ereleases.com/pr/sugar-labs-announces-availability-sugar-stick-learning-platform-runs-pc-netbook-classroom-22146 http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/06-24-2009/0005049403EDATE= ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Server load
Hey all, Could you please hold off from running CPU intensive operations on Sunjammer for a couple hours? The publicity around the SoaS release is causing a nice load spike. thanks david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] BBC News!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] BBC News!
Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com writes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm Funny how every media rushes on spreading the press release *before* actually testing SoaS... I guess there will be a second wave with test. -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] picked up by Neteco (France)
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[Sugar-devel] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] picked up by Xconomy
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/06/24/sugarlabs-releases-sugar-on-stick/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with the Sugar UI. Some useful HCI feedback in there for us... Regards, --Gary ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] PRINTING – The Interface and Engi neering Models
Tomeu suggested approach: Which is an approach implementing the Printing Libraries provided by the activity parents like Evince, Abiword and Mozilla. *Evince has a list of functions in C which I have been looking up, but sadly enough they don't come as libraries, so its hack and extract them before I can even get them to work as a Library. *Abiword doesn't have wrappers readily visible either, and also I realise i'm not upto the level of understanding C++ abiword code much, because it makes my C++ skills look newbie *Browse, I have to look up again. But the advantages with this approach is: 1. We wont have to insert any new code, we would just be getting a few wrappers, and calling them up 2. We can provide a very efficient printing scenario. Disadvantages include: 1. I can't fix the amount of time I'd be requiring to finish this up A more lenient but resource unfriendly approach(s) Case-1: Go with the original plan, that is the Printing activity. Creating Print Icons in other activities that connect to Print activity through tubes. And export their docs to it, have it converted to PDF and use gtkunixprint. Advantages: 1. I won't have to kill any of the things I have done so far. 2. Should be very trivial to implement. Disadvantages: 1. Not the best approach 2. Could be resource unfriendly Case-2: Do the PDF conversion within the activities such as Read and Write themselves for the pages selected. And connnect them to Print activity, and print them. Advantages: 1. Improvement of case-1, and It should be much more resource friendly especially when printing selected pages from a book Disadvantages: Has the same as case-1 Silbe's Approach: Implementing any of the before said cases, but not implementing tubes/events for connecting to activities, just save to journal, and again open with Print Activity. Advantages: 1. kills connecting code 2. should make an identical copy of the Printed document in the journal Disadvantages: 1. Inherits the ones from the parent blueprint 2. Some folks might disagree ;) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] picked up by Liliputing
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[Sugar-devel] picked up by La Nacion (Argentina)
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[Sugar-devel] picked up by Pro-Linux (Germany)
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[Sugar-devel] Notes on a computer that doesn't boot because of screen problems
I'll try to get a ticket in when I get back home. I also have a video at youtube - meekshome - screen run a command as administrator (user root), use sudo command. See man sudo_root for details. ubu...@ubuntu:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:1a.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge 00:1c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01) 00:1d.0 Audio device: ALi Corporation High Definition Audio/AC'97 Host Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1575 South Bridge 00:1e.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 00:1f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c8) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi M5288 SATA (rev 10) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) 03:10.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 46) 03:11.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] (rev 86) ubu...@ubuntu:~$ lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 1002:5a33 (rev 01) 00:01.0 0604: 1002:5a3f 00:05.0 0604: 1002:5a37 00:1a.0 0604: 10b9:5249 00:1c.0 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 0c03: 10b9:5239 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 0403: 10b9:5461 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 0601: 10b9:1575 00:1e.1 0680: 10b9:7101 00:1f.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c8) 00:1f.1 0101: 10b9:5288 (rev 10) 01:05.0 0300: 1002:5a61 02:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 01) 03:10.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 46) 03:11.0 0200: 1106:3106 (rev 86) ubu...@ubuntu:~$ -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Better workaround for Xephyr keyboard problem seen running sugar-emulator (jhbuild run)
Hi, I've found what I think is a better workaround for the Xephyr problem seen running sugar-emulator, in which keyboard mappings are not inherited from the main X server. One workaround known so far is to go into the Terminal activity and run setxkbmap us (or whatever keyboard map options you want). However, that doesn't fix all keys, in particular it doesn't fix the arrow keys (at least for me). What does work is to execute, in a host shell outside of the sugar emulator, xkbcomp $DISPLAY :100 replacing :100 with the actual X display of the Xephyr X server; $DISPLAY is of course the name of the encompassing X display in which Xephyr runs as a client. This copies the XKB settings from the encompassing display to the display under Xephyr. You have to run xkbcomp after having sent some keyboard events to Xephyr -- if you do it before that, it seems not to work for some reason that I don't understand well. That leads me to a really hackish patch to: sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/bin/sugar-emulator adding a -k option that does the xkbcomp to copy the XKB settings to Xephyr before starting sugar. The most awkward bit is that I had to add code to put an ugly little window in the Xephyr server waiting for an initial keystroke before calling xkbcomp. I know very little about X; maybe someone can figure out how to avoid that bit. If you use the patch, start sugar-emulator as follows: $ ./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator -k Briefly tested only under Fedora 11. Enjoy, [1] http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342 sugar-emulator.diff Description: Binary data ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] I need help for Webified - SSB activity favicons
In case you don't know what Webified is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified http://honeyweb.wordpress.com In short, I have added to Browse the ability to create SSB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser) activities. Since I'm generating activities, they need to have icons. After some discussions, I have decided to use a .svg wrapper icon for all SSBs that includes the website favicon. I need to extract the favicon from a website and include it in the .svg icon. Any thoughts? Right now, I'm doing code cls = components.classes['@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1'] io_service = cls.getService(interfaces.nsIIOService) ns_uri = io_service.newURI(uri, None, None) cls = components.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/favicon-service;1'] favicon_service = cls.getService(interfaces.nsIFaviconService) favicon_service.getFaviconData(ns_uri) /code But the last line throws xpcom.Exception: -2147221231. I haven't been able to figure out what that error is. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] is olpcgames obsolete?
Wondering around sugarlabs wiki I found the way to save the current state of an activity to the journal here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.activity.activity The physics and x2o activities are based on olpcgames.activity which handles reading/writing files to the journal in a rather strange way. Is olpcgames obsolete? I've found much more documentation for sugar.activity than for olpcgames.activity. Will it be a good idea to port the Physics activity from using olpcgames modules to use the sugar modules? Greetings, Asaf ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] I need help for Webified - SSB activity favicons
I've tried more methods from here https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIFaviconService getFaviconImageForPage() and getFaviconLinkForIcon() work and they return URIs to the favicon. However, getFaviconData( getFaviconLinkForIcon() ) still gives an exception. I have looked at the URIs returned by getFaviconImageForPage() and getFaviconLinkForIcon() and they're both the default favicon. This means getFaviconData( getFaviconImageForPage() ) should work, but it still doesn't. It also means that Browse doesn't collect favicons. I could resort to getting /favicon.ico, but it's not very standard and .ico is an annoying format. I would also not account for any meta tags that may define icons. I was also hoping of using xulrunner's image handling and get the base64 image from it instead of processing an image file. 2009/6/25 Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com: In case you don't know what Webified is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified http://honeyweb.wordpress.com In short, I have added to Browse the ability to create SSB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser) activities. Since I'm generating activities, they need to have icons. After some discussions, I have decided to use a .svg wrapper icon for all SSBs that includes the website favicon. I need to extract the favicon from a website and include it in the .svg icon. Any thoughts? Right now, I'm doing code cls = components.classes['@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1'] io_service = cls.getService(interfaces.nsIIOService) ns_uri = io_service.newURI(uri, None, None) cls = components.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/favicon-service;1'] favicon_service = cls.getService(interfaces.nsIFaviconService) favicon_service.getFaviconData(ns_uri) /code But the last line throws xpcom.Exception: -2147221231. I haven't been able to figure out what that error is. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
