[Sugar-devel] Paint: trying to fix #1771

2010-06-10 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I think it works, but i don't know if the right thing to do. >From 97fb2adb1ea97a472e020244ae7a2d22c7a94db3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gonzalo Odiard Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:22:36 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] fix #1771 - paint overwrites file type instead of creating new file http://bugs.sugarla

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Record-79

2010-06-10 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:43:55AM -0400, Sugar Labs Activities wrote: > Download Now: > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26943/record-79.xo Anish, this code is not in the Git repository. Please push it. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/record/repos/mainline -- James Cameron htt

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

2010-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:18:34AM +0200, Bastien wrote: > Hi Bernie and all, > > Adding Bruno to the conversation -- he's the main developer of Gcompris > (outside Sugar) and I'm not 100% sure he's on this list. He is... but at this moment he could be trying to figure out how to use gimp to chan

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:28:01PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > wrote: > > In my view, OLPC's ARM announcement creates a pressing problem of avoiding > > total confusion and fragmentation between different CPU architectures. > > 0install i

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

2010-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > (copying the tecnologia@ and sugar-devel@ lists for their information) > > Pacita, meet Aleksey, a very active contributor of Sugar, maintainer of > the Sugar Labs activity library (ASLO) and packager of GCompris. > > Aleksey, me

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
2010/6/10 NoiseEHC : > It seems that I cannot stop myself killing some kittens: Well. Do kill some metaphorical kittens but... maybe... try to avoid being a /perfect example of CADT/. Or maybe it's a good joke and I need to relax ;-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Schoo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Enhancements to Pippy UI

2010-06-10 Thread Anish Mangal
Point taken :) Anish Mangal On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Looks good to me, though I haven't tested it.  A comment on "if not > self.initiating", to explain the intent, might be nice. > > --Ben > > ___ Sugar-devel mai

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

2010-06-10 Thread Bastien
Hi Bernie and all, Adding Bruno to the conversation -- he's the main developer of Gcompris (outside Sugar) and I'm not 100% sure he's on this list. He might have ideas about this. Best, Bernie Innocenti writes: > (copying the tecnologia@ and sugar-devel@ lists for their information) > > Pacit

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread NoiseEHC
> You are not explaining why this will happen, so this point is moot. > > The reason is that it seems that it is impossible to do. I just extrapolated historical data. > So we're indexing the data "automatically", but we still don't have a > datastore? Please explain how that would work. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Luke Faraone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/10/2010 03:57 PM, NoiseEHC wrote: > As I see the problem is that the DS wants to solve a lot of problems in > a general way. I think that this is simply impossible. A lot of > companies tried to create some general storage abstraction other that

[Sugar-devel] Updating SoaS CD Helper?

2010-06-10 Thread Art Hunkins
Here's what I know about the SoaS CD Helper: On Pentium III machines (Win 2000, ME, 98) SoaS Strawberry and Blueberry boot fine; Mirabelle (Fedora 13) doesn't. Mirabelle fails (gets stuck) after the completion of the SoaS 1 bar at the bottom of the screen, with the message: Unable to ennumerate

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread NoiseEHC
It seems that I cannot stop myself killing some kittens: As I see the problem is that the DS wants to solve a lot of problems in a general way. I think that this is simply impossible. A lot of companies tried to create some general storage abstraction other that files, but all of them failed (

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Enhancements to Pippy UI

2010-06-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Looks good to me, though I haven't tested it. A comment on "if not self.initiating", to explain the intent, might be nice. --Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://

[Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

2010-06-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
(copying the tecnologia@ and sugar-devel@ lists for their information) Pacita, meet Aleksey, a very active contributor of Sugar, maintainer of the Sugar Labs activity library (ASLO) and packager of GCompris. Aleksey, meet Pacita, the lead of the education team of Paraguay Educa, who has a very st

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Enhancements to Pippy UI

2010-06-10 Thread anishmangal2002
From: anishmangal2002 [1] Added a standard 'Edit' toolbar having undo, redo, copy and paste buttons which also work when the activity is shared. [2] When the activity is shared, the treeview in the activity host's window does not disappear so he can load examples by clicking on them.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Abente
We really really really ... need a general notification system. :D On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:39 -0400, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Anish Mangal > wrote: > I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what > should be > the correct meth

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-10 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what should be > the correct method of alerting users incase a write error does occur. > Should I popup a dialog box, or use alerts like the one used in chat, > sugar-commander? Suggestions

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > In my view, OLPC's ARM announcement creates a pressing problem of avoiding > total confusion and fragmentation between different CPU architectures. > 0install is, in my view, the most promising candidate solution. I agree that the pro

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: >>  - Reworking the datastore... while I welcome efforts in a new >> datastore... _every Sugar release has a new DS implementation_ and >> they get little testing and I've seen extremely light thinking about >> what is _actually_ needed.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error in running Physics activity And how read .pdf in Read Activity

2010-06-10 Thread ginovation
Thanks Gary and Forster , the Idea given to copy file from USB to the journal works. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Gary Martin wrote: > Hi Ganesh, > > Let me try this email thing again ;) > > On 10 Jun 2010, at 10:26, ginovation wrote: > > > Again with problem, > > > > Running sugar on Ubu

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Alerting users in case of write errors (sl#1842)

2010-06-10 Thread Anish Mangal
I was planning on fixing sl#1842 [1] but I'm not sure what should be the correct method of alerting users incase a write error does occur. Should I popup a dialog box, or use alerts like the one used in chat, sugar-commander? Suggestions welcome. [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1842, Cheers,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Fixes to the record UI

2010-06-10 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on making this patch better as I gain a better understanding of how/what is going wrong. Meanwhile, find my responses to your queries inlined. > OK. > So this patch introduces some "flashing" ? It doesn't introduce any 'new' flashing since those wi

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2010-06-10

2010-06-10 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. In their humorous treatise on political double-speak, ''Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington'', Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein define 'contextomy' as "a subtle variation on the straw-man argument" where you ''yank'' your victim's words out of context. A straw-man argume

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 06/10/2010 11:48 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > - 0install and Vala are controversial, risky and not focussed on > pressing end-users' needs. Yes there are some benefits and potential > to both (otherwise Aleksey would not be working on them! :-) ) but > they also break lots of toys. In my view,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:48:50AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > > Under the temporary working hypothesis that we want to make a Sugar release > > in > > a couple of months, I'd like to know more about what we might find ourselves > > inte

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Implementation

2010-06-10 Thread James Simmons
Bao, Have I got a manual for you! http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction James Simmons > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:38:45 -0400 > From: Quoc-Bao Vuong > Subject: [Sugar-devel] Journal Implementation > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Message-ID: >         > Content-T

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Implementation

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Abente
Take a look at this hello world activity, hopefully is what you need http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~mabente/codesnacks/sugar/HelloWorldDS.activity.tar.bz2 On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 10:38 -0400, Quoc-Bao Vuong wrote: > Hello, my name is Bao Vuong. I am trying to implement a feature to the > irc that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > Under the temporary working hypothesis that we want to make a Sugar release in > a couple of months, I'd like to know more about what we might find ourselves > integrating. Here's my current list of, er... mostly unvetted rumors. :) Hi Micha

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Record-79

2010-06-10 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4081 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26943/record-79.xo Release notes: This version of Record fixes the UI which is broken on sugar-0.86 and beyond. Sugar Labs Activities http://ac

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Supporting Sugar .88 on the XO1

2010-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 06:48:31PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > As Bernie announced, we working on supporting Sugar .88 on the XO-1. > This projects is customer driven by the deployment in Paraguay. They, > along with bernie, made a decision that it would be more useful, > usable, and cost effect

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Abacus-13

2010-06-10 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4293 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26944/abacus-13.xo Release notes: * added save/restore of custom abacus parameters Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org _

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Implementation

2010-06-10 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, A nicely commented example (courtesy Dinko Galetic) demonstrating file operations such as reading and writing can be found here [1]. You may also find this documentation [2] on the python website useful. -- Cheers, Anish [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/pippy/repos/dgaletic-gsoc2010/b

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Implementation

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Stone
> Hello, my name is Bao Vuong. I am trying to implement a feature to the irc > that lets a journal entry store the nickname and channels. I read that I > need to define read_file and write_file methods. Are there any simple > examples I can use? Or a tutorial of how to make one to work? Dear Pippy

[Sugar-devel] Journal Implementation

2010-06-10 Thread Quoc-Bao Vuong
Hello, my name is Bao Vuong. I am trying to implement a feature to the irc that lets a journal entry store the nickname and channels. I read that I need to define read_file and write_file methods. Are there any simple examples I can use? Or a tutorial of how to make one to work? Thank you. ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error in running Physics activity And how read .pdf in Read Activity

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Ganesh, Let me try this email thing again ;) On 10 Jun 2010, at 10:26, ginovation wrote: > Again with problem, > > Running sugar on Ubuntu 9.10, sugar version is 0.88, > I installed physics activity by downloading from sugar/activities page. > > When i try to run, it gives error as follow

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Our Music MC-5

2010-06-10 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4227 Sugar Platform: 0.84 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26940/ourmusicmc-5.xo Release notes: Cosmetic change only Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org __

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Our Music-5

2010-06-10 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4226 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26942/ourmusic-5.xo Release notes: Cosmetic change only Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Lucian Branescu
Afaik, hulahop's WebView has a method do_setup, which is a convention b the initial hulahop devs for a method to be called after the page has loaded. On 10 June 2010 13:36, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Wed, 09-06-2010 a las 23:46 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard escribió: >> SocialCalc depends of hulahop. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Wed, 09-06-2010 a las 23:46 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard escribió: > SocialCalc depends of hulahop. > My activity Elements too. Ugh. BTW, SocialCalc hardcodes a 3-second delay for localization which opens a race condition. It works intermittently on the XO-1 with Sugar 0.84 and it probably fails to wo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar thisweek and next

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Dengler
[In light of sense and recent conversations, please can we not cross-post to five mailing lists in the future unless there is clear information that all lists can benefit from] On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-10 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 10 June 2010 04:28, Jameson Quinn wrote: > > > 2010/6/9 Luke Faraone >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 06/09/2010 08:11 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> > As far as I know, Browse is still the only hulahop user on this planet, >> > so it's not like we need to keep i

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error in running Physics activity And how read .pdf in Read Activity

2010-06-10 Thread forster
Hi Sorry cant help with error log but: > space. But when I copied the same PDF file in my > .sugar/default/datastore folder. I am not able to browse for a PDF. simply copying to datastore will probably not work, journal bundles include mime type which control what Activities will open the fil

[Sugar-devel] Error in running Physics activity And how read .pdf in Read Activity

2010-06-10 Thread ginovation
Again with problem, Running sugar on Ubuntu 9.10, sugar version is 0.88, I installed physics activity by downloading from sugar/activities page. When i try to run, it gives error as follow: Traceback (most recent call last): File "physics.py", line 38, in import Box2D as box2d File "lib

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multitouch in Fedora

2010-06-10 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:13:49AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > I guess they are talking about something related to Unity, which is > Canonical's UX of choice for netbooks. Unity was supposed at the UDS > to sit in a similar place to GNOME Shell so it will most probably be > using multi touch with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multitouch in Fedora

2010-06-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 22:18, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi, > > I know people were wondering about multitouch. In the last couple of > days there's a couple of posts regarding Multitouch in fedora for > those that are interested. > > http://www.j5live.com/2010/06/09/multitouch-working-in-fedora/ > >