Re: [Sugar-devel] amRe: [Cs-dev] Sugar on a Stick -andOLPCsound/Csound

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Art, The csound-python should have gone out at the same time as the csound as the former is just a sub package. Going forward they will be updated simultaneously. Once we have the issue fixed I'll review the package requires on various packages to ensure its always pulled in where needed.

Re: [Sugar-devel] help about the get_preview function of activity.Activity class to take screenshots

2009-07-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 15:51, sumit singhsumit.co...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, Thanx a lot for the function. I would be using it as of now while creating the infrastructure for the activity, would try to provide support to both the new as well as the previous builds. I would be testing the

[Sugar-devel] interesting blog article on webworkers

2009-07-22 Thread Bryan Berry
maybe this could be of help to us? http://ejohn.org/blog/web-workers/ -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] question about: Main Karma Package

2009-07-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
Now that I'm actually looking at the layout, I realise that you MUST rename chakra.html/karmaplatz.html to index.html. If you host the karma bundle somewhere on a web server, when you go to the bundle ROOT path the server will try to serve index.html, because that's the default. Since it's not

Re: [Sugar-devel] question about: Main Karma Package

2009-07-22 Thread Bryan Berry
that's a good point, we may end up just naming it index.html but referring to the starting page as the Chakra On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:59 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: Now that I'm actually looking at the layout, I realise that you MUST rename chakra.html/karmaplatz.html to index.html. If you

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, Please check out http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr/repos/sayamindus-clone and see if it works for you. If it works, we can probably merge this clone into mainline. Thanks, Sayamindu On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: I've digged thru the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 22 Jul 2009, at 14:43, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Please check out http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr/repos/sayamindus-clone and see if it works for you. If it works, we can probably merge this clone into mainline. Just tested here on sugar-jhbuild (0.85.1) and it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Sayamindu, On 22 Jul 2009, at 14:43, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Please check out http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr/repos/sayamindus-clone and see if it works for you. If it works, we can probably merge this

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA reports and target features

2009-07-22 Thread Frederick Grose
Hi Greg, The Rochester, NY Sugar Summer Program Co-ops will be in Boston, Massachusetts 10-16 August 2009 with a commitment to help with any needed tasks in the final week at Gardner. Our Massachusetts field trip is described here,

Re: [Sugar-devel] question about: Main Karma Package

2009-07-22 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Lucian, thanks a lot for raising that issue, it's certainly an aspect we hadn't considered! Cheers, Christoph 2009/7/22 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org that's a good point, we may end up just naming it index.html but referring to the starting page as the Chakra On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:59

[Sugar-devel] Soas Personal Build Errors

2009-07-22 Thread Andrés Arrieta Perréard
Ok I could build my soas now using F11, but I detected 3 Issues. 1) The mouse pointer looks bad ( http://img262.imageshack.us/i/img072o.jpg/ ) like traces of black rectangles 2) Every time I open an activity or save I get a warning to delete stuff in the journal (

[Sugar-devel] Feature Proposal: Terminal Sharing

2009-07-22 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
I have proposed a new feature for 0.86. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Terminal_Sharing Essentially, this feature is add GNU Screen and OpenSSH to the list of Sugar dependencies. --Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] question about: Main Karma Package

2009-07-22 Thread Felipe López Toledo
Exactly. the stuff common to all the lessons, like karma.css, jquery.js, goes in the top-level directory so ROOT js/ , css/ , karmaplatz.html, lessons/ lessons js/, css/ Does it seems like too much overhead to carry around the karmaplatz? I figure that most of the time devs will want

Re: [Sugar-devel] interesting blog article on webworkers

2009-07-22 Thread Felipe López Toledo
Thanks Bryan! Following this link: http://ejohn.org/blog/how-javascript-timers-work/ you'll find timers are not really good for our purpose, one more time web workers are a better solution. I'm still working around passing functions to webworkers. 2009/7/22 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] karma dictionary started

2009-07-22 Thread Felipe López Toledo
great!! On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Great idea! I've added explainations next to the terms in the dictionary as to make them understandable for everyone. Christoph 2009/7/22 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org i have started

[Sugar-devel] Karma: geometry functions

2009-07-22 Thread Felipe López Toledo
Hi guys. I've been working on re-making some OLE Nepal lessons using javaScript, each time I found new things to do, most of them related to geometry. I think it's necessary to write some geometry class in order to expedite the activities development. currently supported: (draw) : rectangle,

[Sugar-devel] Buddy Tagging (Was: GPA Goals Status)

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Jul 2009, at 23:51, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Greg, On 21 Jul 2009, at 14:51, Greg Smith wrote: I may also add a feature to share a file from one computer to another. I want to see a lesson plan needing

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-07-22

2009-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest=== 1. There were some remarks made about Sugar by Nicholas Negroponte in ZDNET earlier this week that have caused a stir in the community. It is remarkable (to me) that there is still such confusion between operating systems (GNU/Linux) and user interfaces (Sugar) even in the

[Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they want to have more to use. - Its still hard to task switch (we may try teaching them alt - tab next

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they want to have more to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Karma: geometry functions

2009-07-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
Could this help? http://sylvester.jcoglan.com/ 2009/7/22 Felipe López Toledo zer.subz...@gmail.com: Hi guys. I've been working on re-making some OLE Nepal lessons using javaScript, each time I found new things to do, most of them related to geometry. I think it's necessary to write some

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-22 Thread Bastien
Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com writes: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr/repos/sayamindus-clone and see if it works for you. It works fine! This is super-nice, thanks. And I even learned some stuff in the process... great. If it works, we can probably merge this clone into

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA reports and target features

2009-07-22 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Fred, Wow! That sounds great. From the summer camp web page it looks like you guys are having a lot of fun. Synch up with Caroline about logistics at the school and related issues. I'm sure we can find some menial tasks :-) One thing that comes to mind is that you could help by getting in to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Read 70

2009-07-22 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The activity has been tested to work on Fedora 11 based systems such as SOAS-Strawberry, and it will work in a Sucrose 0.84 environment (and I plan to make sure that it keeps working on Sugar 0.84). However, if you are using SOAS, you will need to install WebkitGTK,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Read 70

2009-07-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The activity has been tested to work on Fedora 11 based systems such as SOAS-Strawberry, and it will work in a Sucrose 0.84 environment (and I plan to make sure that it keeps working

[Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have ebooks in them). If we use a zip archive format, with the following internal layout, it

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Turtle Art-58

2009-07-22 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] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-22 Thread Samuel Klein
This makes perfect sense to me. In particular, Read should be able to read .xol files and display books contained within them if they are in a known/readable format. Adding support over time for alternatives to catalog.atom would not be difficult (there are some learning-objects formats that

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
Well, I couldn't help myself: See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:State-game.png It was pretty easy to code in Turtle Art :) -walter On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Greg, On 22 Jul 2009, at 19:58, Greg Smith wrote: That brings up the question of how they can tag the items they want to easily find them later. That is, as they look around on Wikipedia or elsewhere and find text and images they want to use, how do we collect them and show them (and only

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 20:09, Walter Bender wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new

Re: [Sugar-devel] Karma: geometry functions

2009-07-22 Thread Felipe López Toledo
yes! Thanks Lucian 2009/7/22 Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com Could this help? http://sylvester.jcoglan.com/ 2009/7/22 Felipe López Toledo zer.subz...@gmail.com: Hi guys. I've been working on re-making some OLE Nepal lessons using javaScript, each time I found new things to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 22:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have ebooks in them). If we use a

Re: [Sugar-devel] status of adding up to 10?

2009-07-22 Thread Bryan Berry
it is fine w/ me I can't remember exactly why crockford doesn't like it On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 22:37 -0500, Felipe López Toledo wrote: Hi. I know, you've been playing around JS, maybe you have noticed about the *new* reserved word and its role. according to Douglas Crockford,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Fwd: geometry functions needed for Karma]

2009-07-22 Thread Bryan Berry
added subzero on cc On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:42 +0545, devendra khadka wrote: I think it would be better we use some existing javascript libraries than to start from the scatch. so that we could get functon and classes to be used in every repetitive works. besides we may need some common