[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Get Internet Archive Books-3

2009-08-11 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4194 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29209 Release notes: This fixes a bug that, if you attempted to download a book in B/W PDF format (which the Internet Archive does not

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-16

2009-08-11 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4035 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29210 Release notes: Someone was confused that text to speech with highlighting does not work with the Help text (the page that begins

Re: [Sugar-devel] HTML 5 article and validator

2009-08-11 Thread S Page
2009/8/11 Bryan Berry : > https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Offline_resources_in_Firefox > > it appears to be very specific to firefox Yes, that's talking about JS access to Mozilla nsXyz interfaces. However... > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/ > > It sounds like some browser storage solutio

Re: [Sugar-devel] New SoaS-on-XO-1 build done: soasxo51

2009-08-11 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:01:16AM +, Martin Dengler wrote: > soasxo51.tree.tar.lzma - for hacking When I boot this build, it seems to go okay. The screen switches to white, but sugar never starts. If I press the power button then it shows the shutdown screen and suspends. If I press the pow

[Sugar-devel] WatchMe-1, a VNC activity

2009-08-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Announcing WatchMe-1, an activity that brings VNC to Sugar. How to try it: On two Sugar instances: 1. su -c yum install gtk-vnc-python (or equivalent for your operating system) 2. Install http://bemasc.net/~bens/WatchMe-1.xo 3. Start the activity on o

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Turtle Art-61

2009-08-11 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29211 Release notes: * fixed problem with es translation * fixed save/load problem on old systems (767) Reviewer comments: Trusted act

Re: [Sugar-devel] Results of today's Jabber Testing

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > I worked with the RIT contingent and Dave Farning today to do some > collaboration testing. > We tested with 8 computers on a rarely used dev XS system hosted by Solution > Grove. Interesting! Your report is a bit confusing so I will - yo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Felipe López Toledo
I would suggest a mechanism to "export" all or just the selected SSB sites and the "import" feature Gary C Martin wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 18:25, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Lucian >> Branescu wrote: >>> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : On 08/11/2009 12:14 P

Re: [Sugar-devel] code review guidelines updated

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
Jim, On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:58:10PM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote: > > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:27:24 +0200 > > From: Tomeu Vizoso > > > > [the] rationale behind the code review process in the wiki > > [follows] > > I have already recommended to someone that wanted to modify one of my > Activitie

[Sugar-devel] Results of today's Jabber Testing

2009-08-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
I worked with the RIT contingent and Dave Farning today to do some collaboration testing. We tested with 8 computers on a rarely used dev XS system hosted by Solution Grove. We had some UI challenges getting connected but once we were all connected there seemed to be no particular problems or str

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] tool accelerator keys add objects to the world

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
Make it easy to add lots of objects to the world quickly by drawing one shape, then pressing the key of the shape tool a few times to add a few copies of that object to the tool. Erase objects by hovering and pressing E (the erase tool key). Reduces the need to click the mouse while moving it, wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] code review guidelines updated

2009-08-11 Thread Jim Simmons
Tomeu, When Aleksey made changes to Read Etexts to support the gstreamer espeak plugin he had written he made a clone of the Activity in gitorious, and later this clone was merged back into the mainline. I thought this worked pretty well from my standpoint because I could look at his code before

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:49:21AM -0300, Andr?s Nacelle wrote: > First of all thanks James for taking your time and reading the stuff I > send and giving me such a complete response. Getting into what you > were saying, I'm aware of the high dynamics under the signal sensing > and reception, becau

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] replace Keep and Stop accelerators

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
This commit replaces the Keep and Stop accelerators from the Terminal's activity toolbar, since the default accelerators are quite heavily used keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q. These old defaults are replaced with shift-ed equivalents: Ctrl-Shift-s and Ctrl-Shift-q. This is consistent with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 18:25, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Lucian > Branescu wrote: >> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : >>> On 08/11/2009 12:14 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well, http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/3

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Andrés Nacelle
Tomeu, to tell the truth I haven't done an equivalent test on this situation but it's in my to do list. Right now I'm using my day to day experience, in which I've been in presence more than once of a ESSID with different BSSID, for example my neighbour had the same wireless router than me (hence s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
View source would only be used for editing small things, like TurtleArt code blocks and userstyles, but no actual activity code. The activity would offer a list of pseudo-files that are to be edited by users. Changes to these would be applied immediately in the activity, so it would be easier to sw

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 08:17, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/10/2009 11:56 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: >> This a bit long-winded, but please bear with me. If you know my >> project, skip to the end. >> >> I've been working on Browse in the context of GSoC. >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified >> H

Re: [Sugar-devel] Share button in the activity toolbar (from the toolbar redesign thread)

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 03:42 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02:10AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Simon Schampijer >>> wrote: On 08/06/2009 04:59 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/06

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Daniel, On 11 Aug 2009, at 17:19, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Gary C Martin : >> H. Are you sure this is an accurate statement? I was under the >> impression that mesh forwarding support had been removed/disabled >> from OLPCs >> implementation a long time ago, since soon after the M

Re: [Sugar-devel] code review guidelines updated

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 07:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > have tried to clarify and explain the rationale behind the code review > process in the wiki: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Code_Review > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Code_guidelines > > Would welcome any com

[Sugar-devel] code review guidelines updated

2009-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, have tried to clarify and explain the rationale behind the code review process in the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Code_Review http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Code_guidelines Would welcome any comments. Thanks, Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : >> On 08/11/2009 12:14 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: >>> >>> In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well, >>> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/create%20ssb.png >> >> Yes seen that. >> >>> rgs o

[Sugar-devel] New Activities on a.sl.o was Sugar Digest 2009-08-11

2009-08-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
> > > ===In the community=== > > 3. Gonzalo Odiard reported on a successful > [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2009-August/004099.html > Sugar Day Argentina on the Sur list.] Gonzalo also describes three new > activities: [http://190.0.162.1/godiard/sugar/Domino/6/Domino.xo], a > game wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : > On 08/11/2009 12:14 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: >> >> In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well, >> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/create%20ssb.png > > Yes seen that. > >> rgs on IRC suggested that the 'Keep in Journal' button could either >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 19:02, Andrés Nacelle wrote: > Hello, > > On 7 Aug 09 Martin Langhoff posted that in presence of 2 identical SSID, the > XO will always connect to the same BSSID. > > It happens that during the tests I've been doing lately, and wrote you > about, happened exactly the opposit

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Andrés Nacelle
Hello, On 7 Aug 09 Martin Langhoff posted that in presence of 2 identical SSID, the XO will always connect to the same BSSID. It happens that during the tests I've been doing lately, and wrote you about, happened exactly the opposite, the XO moved from one to another AP all the time. I'm saying t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 12:14 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well, > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/create%20ssb.png Yes seen that. > rgs on IRC suggested that the 'Keep in Journal' button could either > save an offline version by itself or there

Re: [Sugar-devel] #1146 UNSP: (Default) Text is too small. This can be easily seen even on the (SoaS) login screen.

2009-08-11 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Aleksey, > > To clarify my "bug": SoaS text is not just too small in a given Activity; > text is too small in SoaS *overall*. > > SoaS's default font size seems to be 10 - the same as for XO-1. Any text > that SoaS prints seems to be size 10. F

Re: [Sugar-devel] #1146 UNSP: (Default) Text is too small. This can be easily seen even on the (SoaS) login screen.

2009-08-11 Thread Art Hunkins
Aleksey, To clarify my "bug": SoaS text is not just too small in a given Activity; text is too small in SoaS *overall*. SoaS's default font size seems to be 10 - the same as for XO-1. Any text that SoaS prints seems to be size 10. For me to get readable text, I need to raise all instances (in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > if nothing else, a next release _must_ be built > > with a modular mouse driver... > > Hmmm. The 5th reply makes a beeline to "must rebuild the kernel". Not > quite a record, but pretty good performance I have to say ;-)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: > 2009/8/11 Paul Fox : > > one thing we've recently realized that would be very low risk > > would be to change the "xset" command in /usr/bin/olpc-session > > from "xset 7/4 0" to either "xset 7/6 0" or "xset 7/4 1". > > What effect does this have? see "man xset" as a refere

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Gary C Martin : > H. Are you sure this is an accurate statement? I was under the > impression that mesh forwarding support had been removed/disabled from OLPCs > implementation a long time ago, since soon after the Mongolia deployment. > Mesh was killing the wireless spectrum with all

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 05:42 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: >> I wonder if the ad-hoc network will scale up to that number of users :/ >> Though I am not an expert in this area. Maybe Daniel has some more >> insights on this topic. > > Yes. Ad-hoc networks do not scale at all because

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Peter Robinson : >>> Hmm... so if other people join that network, and then I leave, does the >>> network not persist?  I haven't experimented with this yet. >> >> yes, it will persist > > Really? My understanding of the ad-hoc network is that it basically > puts the user that creates it w

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 16:11, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : >> From the user POV they are the same I guess. A local network, that >> does not >> need any infrastructure. > > I disagree. The mesh connections are automatic, and the presence of > them does not indicate the presence

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Robinson
>> Hmm... so if other people join that network, and then I leave, does the >> network not persist?  I haven't experimented with this yet. > > yes, it will persist Really? My understanding of the ad-hoc network is that it basically puts the user that creates it wifi card into ad-hoc AP mode and tha

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : >> I wonder if the ad-hoc network will scale up to that number of users :/ >> Though I am not an expert in this area. Maybe Daniel has some more >> insights on this topic. > > Yes. Ad-hoc networks do not scale at all because they are range limited

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/11/2009 03:49 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Simon Schampijer >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: > > I think it would help, to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Benjamin M. Schwartz : > Hmm... so if other people join that network, and then I leave, does the > network not persist?  I haven't experimented with this yet. yes, it will persist ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org htt

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Benjamin M. Schwartz : >> I am becoming very confused. Why does Sugar place an ownership concept on >> an ad-hoc network? > > Just in principle. Have you tried it? > Create a network and it will be called "Ben's network" > I'd be relatively confident that I could f

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Benjamin M. Schwartz : > I am becoming very confused.  Why does Sugar place an ownership concept on > an ad-hoc network? Just in principle. Have you tried it? Create a network and it will be called "Ben's network" I'd be relatively confident that I could find Ben on that network. Daniel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : > I wonder if the ad-hoc network will scale up to that number of users :/ > Though I am not an expert in this area. Maybe Daniel has some more > insights on this topic. Yes. Ad-hoc networks do not scale at all because they are range limited. They also act quite odd in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : >> From the user POV they are the same I guess. A local network, that does not >> need any infrastructure. > > I disagree. The mesh connections are automatic, and the presence of > them does not indicate the presence of another computer like an ad

[Sugar-devel] How is the 'default' string in '.sugar/default' determined?

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
In the Sugar internals, how do you obtain the Sugar config storage directory? Moreover, what is the /correct/, recommended way to do it, one that will work on .82, .84 & .86 from activities, Sugar Shell code... and cronjobs (that run under the same user, but different ENV, and not spawned by sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 03:49 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >>> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to distinguish them. Could be a badged wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > if nothing else, a next release _must_ be built > with a modular mouse driver... Hmmm. The 5th reply makes a beeline to "must rebuild the kernel". Not quite a record, but pretty good performance I have to say ;-) I understand the reasoning, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 02:35 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 11 Aug 2009, at 12:08, Peter Robinson wrote: > > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: >> I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to >> distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is >> the mesh >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Paul Fox : > one thing we've recently realized that would be very low risk > would be to change the "xset" command in /usr/bin/olpc-session > from "xset 7/4 0" to either "xset 7/6 0" or "xset 7/4 1". What effect does this have? Daniel ___ Suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 01:03 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 11 Aug 2009, at 11:21, Simon Schampijer wrote: > >> On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >>> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to distinguish them. Could be a badged wireles

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : > From the user POV they are the same I guess. A local network, that does not > need any infrastructure. I disagree. The mesh connections are automatic, and the presence of them does not indicate the presence of another computer like an ad-hoc network would do. Also, t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > In the _completely hypothetical_ case that I had some time and chance > to spin a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the "paper cuts"[1] and > low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - > have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) well, touchpad i

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Andrés Nacelle
Hello again people, I´m really happy to see you gave me some feedback. Lets see if I can clear out all points you've mentioned and put a beet more clear some other which I mentioned before with some lack of details >On 11 Aug 2009 James Cameron >The instantaneous signal strengths change very quick

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
Silly me. Here's the proper link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser 2009/8/11 Lucian Branescu : > Sorry, it's my fault. Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSB > > It's a specialised Browser that runs a single web site. It may be > customised for that certain web site. An example is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
Sorry, it's my fault. Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSB It's a specialised Browser that runs a single web site. It may be customised for that certain web site. An example is Mozilla Prism. If you want more info, read the webified wiki page and my blog, but it's a lot to read. 2009/8/11 Chris

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Hi Lucian Can you explain to me what SSB means? Sorry for my naivete, it's probably perfectly clear to everyone else. Generally these look fine, but I think we could probably clarify the interaction a bit after you give me a few pointers on what you are trying to do. Thanks! Christian On Mon,

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11

2009-08-11 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. Daniel Drake started a deployment-centric thread [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-August/007651.html] about Sugar's direction and goals and the role that Sugar Labs should be playing. Much of the discussion is a rehash of issues we have been discussing since we

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:29:58PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > To turn soasxo51.tree.tar.lzma into an acceptable copy-nand image, I > only need to do > > mkfs.jffs2 -n -e128KiB -r $ROOT -o $IMG.tmp > sumtool -n -p -e 128KiB -i $IMG.tmp -o $IMG > crcimg $IMG > > Correct? Yes, but may I sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-11 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
To turn soasxo51.tree.tar.lzma into an acceptable copy-nand image, I only need to do mkfs.jffs2 -n -e128KiB -r $ROOT -o $IMG.tmp sumtool -n -p -e 128KiB -i $IMG.tmp -o $IMG crcimg $IMG Correct? -- American? Vote on the National Initiative for Democracy, http://votep2.us ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] HTML 5 article and validator

2009-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
There's realStorage (http://code.google.com/p/realstorage/), but I don't know if it's mature enough. You could always use one of the various JS ORMs, that usually have several backends, as varied as html5, gears, cookie, flash cookie, activex, etc. 2009/8/11 Bryan Berry : > On Tue, 2009-08-11 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] HTML 5 article and validator

2009-08-11 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 17:04 +0545, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Finally had a chance to read a quick intro article to HTML 5 > (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/16/html5-and-the-future-of-the-web/) > which also linked to an (experimental) HTML 5 validator > (http://html5.validator.nu/). >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> >> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: >>> >>> I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to >>> distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is the mesh >>> icon

Re: [Sugar-devel] Share button in the activity toolbar (from the toolbar redesign thread)

2009-08-11 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02:10AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> > On 08/06/2009 04:59 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> >> On 08/06/2009 03:37 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Aug

Re: [Sugar-devel] Share button in the activity toolbar (from the toolbar redesign thread)

2009-08-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02:10AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > > On 08/06/2009 04:59 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > >> On 08/06/2009 03:37 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: > >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Simon Schampijer   > >>> wrote: > >>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:35:15PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > Tomeu: If has made it into one of the XO builds, I can run tests next > week (3 XOs + 1 Mac). It's in my SoaS-on-XO-1 builds (and other SoaS builds, I believe). > Regards, > --Gary Martin pgpbBmIo3eeth.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 12:08, Peter Robinson wrote: 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: > I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network > to > distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is > the mesh > icon appropriate? Or something completely ne

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Deployment feedback braindump

2009-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 20:03, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Daniel., > > excellent post - skipping to the "let's make it deployable" part, I > have to say I agree with all you say. - Some comments below > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Secondly, this just won't work for dep

Re: [Sugar-devel] Share button in the activity toolbar (from the toolbar redesign thread)

2009-08-11 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/06/2009 04:59 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> On 08/06/2009 03:37 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Simon Schampijer   >>> wrote: On 07/31/2009 05:14 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bug tracker enhancements

2009-08-11 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Tue, 11-08-2009 a las 10:59 +0200, Simon Schampijer escribió: > @Infra-people, is it possible to get an own instance for soas? Sure, but... does it really have to be Trac? :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/

[Sugar-devel] HTML 5 article and validator

2009-08-11 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Finally had a chance to read a quick intro article to HTML 5 ( http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/16/html5-and-the-future-of-the-web/) which also linked to an (experimental) HTML 5 validator ( http://html5.validator.nu/). I'm thinking especially the validator could come in quite handy for Karm

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Robinson
>>> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is the mesh icon appropriate? Or something completely new? >>> >>> I think new icons would be best, to distinguish fro

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Aug 2009, at 11:21, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: >>> I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to >>> distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is >>> the mesh >>> icon appropr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Share button in the activity toolbar (from the toolbar redesign thread)

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/06/2009 04:59 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/06/2009 03:37 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Simon Schampijer >> wrote: >>> On 07/31/2009 05:14 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:03:15PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > I noticed two more bugs: Thanks for the reports. If anyone has time while testing (just in case; I know most of us don't), there is a Fedora bug tracking all the open OLPC-XO-related bugs that often has known issues: https://b

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-11 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
I noticed two more bugs: - Record does not detect the XO's camera. - Many Pippy examples do not work because of failing on "import pippy" Possible an include path is not being set correctly? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org h

Re: [Sugar-devel] Deployment feedback braindump

2009-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:53, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > 2009/8/10 Tomeu Vizoso : >> Hi, >> >> some thoughts follow. Please keep in mind that these are just my >> personal opinions and that not everybody at Sugar Labs share the same >> idea of what SLs is or should be. > > Thanks for the

[Sugar-devel] New SoaS-on-XO-1 build done: soasxo51

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
A new SoaS-on-XO-1 build soasxo51 is available. NAND size (change): 0.61G (896K) ext3 size (change): 1.26G (1612K) Package changes: --- soasxo50.tree.packages.txt 2009-08-08 14:12:26.0 + +++ soasxo51.tree.packages.txt 2009-08-11 02:08:06.0 + @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ deskto

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:41:29AM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > FYI, there is a substantial difference in performance with and without > compmgr when asking Read Etexts to speak and highlight a text. compmgr > slows things down a lot. Thanks for the report. I've disabled xcompmgr in soasxo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/11/2009 11:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer: >> I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to >> distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is the mesh >> icon appropriate? Or something completely new? > > I think new icons would

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well, http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/create%20ssb.png rgs on IRC suggested that the 'Keep in Journal' button could either save an offline version by itself or there could be a drop down with several options. About modifying SSBs, rig

Re: [Sugar-devel] #1146 UNSP: (Default) Text is too small. This can be easily seen even on the (SoaS) login screen.

2009-08-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:59:25PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote: > This happens on all text (i.e., not-image) display, to my knowledge. > > Obvious examples are the Log and Terminal Activities. > > The most problemmatic examples are when text is used in a PyGTK boxed > context (such as the 4 activit

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer : > I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to > distinguish them. Could be a badged wireless network one? Or is the mesh > icon appropriate? Or something completely new? I think new icons would be best, to distinguish from the mesh. I think we c

[Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, the functionality to create ad-hoc networks has been created. Two little things are missing to finish this feature [1]: a) transmitting the creator's color (patch pending) b) new icons for the ad-hoc networks I think it would help, to have a new icon for the ad-hoc network to distinguish t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bug tracker enhancements

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 07/11/2009 06:01 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Bryan Berry wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 07:45 +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Our current trac instance is missing some basic functionality: >>> >>> - versions per component: a really simple enhancement would be to have a >>> te

Re: [Sugar-devel] multiple activity versions installed simultaneously (was Re: [Bugs] #1042 UNSP: cannot install new activity version)

2009-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:24, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 10 Aug 2009, at 17:24, Daniel Drake wrote: > >> 2009/8/10 Martin Dengler : >>> Learner-generated activity patches, perhaps?  Like, we're under a >>> tree >>> and here's my patched Terminal/Pippy/Speak that you may want to try >>> but not comm

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/10/2009 11:56 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > This a bit long-winded, but please bear with me. If you know my > project, skip to the end. > > I've been working on Browse in the context of GSoC. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified > Here's my blog http://honeyweb.wordpress.com and you can get

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to not make a window?

2009-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:09, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > I am trying to create a sugar activity that wraps a simple X application. >  Specifically, my activity is a standard python activity, inheriting from > the sugar.activity.activity.Activity, but it has no GUI.  set_canvas is > never called