Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:52, Sayamindu Dasguptasayami...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Today we wanted to take pictures the teacher had taken with a camera and share them with the class. This turned out to be much

Re: [Sugar-devel] creating your own templates in write activity

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 19:18, Manusheel Guptam...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, Hope all is well. We have been working on developing a template builder tool in write activity, and wish to have your pointers on certain features- 1. Text box - We realize that the text box tool is missing in the

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Measure-24

2009-07-17 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4197 Release notes: Reviewer comments: Still needs some work in other platforms other than the XO, but it's a very cool activity for kids to explore... Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:10, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Another pre-release of sugar-update-control.aslo is ready for testing.  It is now available at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-update-control/repos/aslo-clone . Just tried it, congratulations on the fine work!

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA School Notes Wed. July 15 - GS

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 21:28, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Here are my notes from today's class. Anurag will send out notes on what we did in class so I will focus on UI and usability comments. I also recorded the post class warm/cold comments. Wonder if we could send

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:03:15PM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Aleksey

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:40, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 13 Jul 2009, at 21:01, Gary C Martin wrote: On 13 Jul 2009, at 19:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:16, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:14:33AM +, Aleksey Lim

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] Source editor and widget

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:15, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: On 07/16/2009 12:06 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: On 15 Jul 2009, at 17:07, Lucian Branescu wrote: Here it is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac#How_do_I_create_a_text_box_for_code_editing.3F Thanks

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:03:15PM -0500, David

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Download: http://bemasc.net/~bens/SharedTextDemo-4.xo Requires Sugar 0.82 or better. Short: This version adds support for automerge after offline editing.  User may start a shared session, then edit

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote: David, Could you please point me to an explanation of why it's hard to get ASLO to generate the microformat that is already understood by the tens of thousands of sugar-0.82 machines in Uruguay, the US, and elsewhere

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:29, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Going forward, this option represents a increase in usability with a very low cost of maintenance. Sure, but what about legacy deployments, where it is rare to update the existing software? -- Luke Faraone

[Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

2009-07-17 Thread Andrea Mangiatordi
Hi everybody, I am working on accessibility related problems on Sugar. I have spent some months in Uruguay working with children with special needs and now I am trying to organize the information I collected there. I would like to share with you some hacks and ideas. Here is the first post of

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA School Notes Wed. July 15 - GS

2009-07-17 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
My humble opinions on what Sugar could learn from this report are bellow. 2009/7/15 Greg Smith gregsmit...@gmail.com: Hi All, Here are my notes from today's class. Anurag will send out notes on what we did in class so I will focus on UI and usability comments. I also recorded the post class

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 15:14, Andrea Mangiatordiandrea.mangiato...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I am working on accessibility related problems on Sugar. I have spent some months in Uruguay working with children with special needs and now I am trying to organize the information I collected

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] Source editor and widget

2009-07-17 Thread Lucian Branescu
We could start with just expanding 'document' view source to allow activities to offer files to be edited, like user CSS or TurtleArt code blocks. This way, we don't have to worry about bundles (yet). 2009/7/17 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:15, Simon

[Sugar-devel] Click response areas

2009-07-17 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.comwrote: ... (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying Stop then clicked on that and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Click response areas

2009-07-17 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com wrote: ... (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put the cursor over the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:42:57PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 17 Jul 2009, at 09:52, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Here are my image mock-ups for Write. All tabs are swapped out as is, for toolbar buttons. With no need to move existing tab content features about:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Click response areas

2009-07-17 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: ... (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying Stop then clicked on that and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Andrea Mangiatordi wrote: There's an interesting magnifier project at magnifier.sourceforge.net which can be installed in any Fedora using yum or downloading the rpm package from the project website. Binding it to a key using xbindkeys allows to have magnification of the part of the screen

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: 1. Any session saved in the Journal that was previously shared, will be shared again with the same scope upon resume. 2. If there is an existing shared session visible with the same

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: 1. Any session saved in the Journal that was previously shared, will be shared again with the same

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: A private copy can be shared again. So it seems the real question is one of merging. If each of us are working on different versions and we want to share again, we need some reconciliation mechanism. I would argue that for the time being, that should be a manual process.

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/7/16 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: A possible answer would be to abstract ALSOParse.py and microformat.py as back ends for Sugar-Update-Control (SUC). It's not so much the issue of losing support for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] creating your own templates in write activity

2009-07-17 Thread Manusheel Gupta
Martin, Thank you for the pointer. Very helpful. We have been able to add the text box feature in the write activity. Regards, Manu On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Martin Sevior msev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Manusheel, There is no specific pyabiword binding for insert

[Sugar-devel] advice or direction on sugar development project

2009-07-17 Thread Scotty Auble
Hello, I'm hoping this will be a good place to get connected with some people who can help me with a Sugar/OLPC development project. Mainly looking for advice and answers to specific questions, not necessarily development work, but any help is welcome. Recommended to check out this list by sj. I

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing sugar on debian

2009-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:34:28PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: Hi, Jonas. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: ... Yeah - that bug was causing the segfault I wrote about in another thread! Martin Stone

Re: [Sugar-devel] advice or direction on sugar development project

2009-07-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Scotty Aublescotty...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm hoping this will be a good place to get connected with some people who can help me with a Sugar/OLPC development project. Mainly looking for advice and answers to specific questions, not necessarily

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
We can put it in front of actual kids once you get a sample working. We could even try playing the video for our existing classes. I don't know if they'll be able to give you feedback from just seeing the video. Might be interesting to find out. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Gary C Martin

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
Ack! I posted this to the wrong thread! Sorry :( Here are some ideas for use cases that we might want to think through. Off the top of my head - Teacher shares a file with a class - Teacher shares a file or lesson plan or student work sample with other teachers - Student shares

[Sugar-devel] Language control panel broken: Chinese + Russian displayed

2009-07-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
There are serious bugs in language switching in My Settings (the Sugar Control Panel). One is that switching to a language can result in bits of some other language appearing, and switching back does not necessarily restore the original language entirely. I have attached a portion of a screen

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Turtle Art-55

2009-07-17 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027 Release notes: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027#release-notes Reviewer comments: Trusted activity Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 17 Jul 2009, at 23:35, Caroline Meeks wrote: Ack! I posted this to the wrong thread! Sorry :( Here are some ideas for use cases that we might want to think through. Off the top of my head • Teacher shares a file with a class • Teacher shares a file or lesson

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Cs-dev] Sugar on a Stick - and OLPCsound/Csound

2009-07-17 Thread Art Hunkins
Peter, Thanks for this. Can you, or anyone, point me to specific instructions as to how to download and install either of these options? I've tried the obvious methods, such as: yum updates-testing csound and yum update csound but have hit a blank wall. I've never tried anything in testing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 17 Jul 2009, at 22:14, Caroline Meeks wrote: We can put it in front of actual kids once you get a sample working. We could even try playing the video for our existing classes. I don't know if they'll be able to give you feedback from just seeing the video. Might be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 15:49, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:42:57PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Cs-dev] Sugar on a Stick - and OLPCsound/Csound

2009-07-17 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:49:33PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote: Peter, Thanks for this. Can you, or anyone, point me to specific instructions as to how to download and install either of these options? I've tried the obvious methods, such as: yum updates-testing csound and yum update

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Caroline, On 17 Jul 2009, at 23:35, Caroline Meeks wrote: Ack! I posted this to the wrong thread! Sorry :( Here are some ideas for use cases that we might want to think through. Off the top of my head