Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel] Fwd: Testing Summary - Wellington, 9 Oct 2010

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Murray
> - Discussion on using luggage tags so that we can identify which computer >belongs to who from the outside A magic marker works fine. (Or Sharpie or whatever they are called in your location.) You want the permanent kind. Non-permanent ink may get smudged off. If you don't want to me

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Testing Summary - Wellington, 9 Oct 2010

2010-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
Forwarding to Sugar-devel.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim McNamara Date: Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:43 PM Subject: Testing Summary - Wellington, 9 Oct 2010 To: OLPC NZ Really nice day today! Attendees: - Tim, Alastair, Kristina, Grant Non-testing activities: - Introduced O

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Sebastian Silva
I'm downloading the source from the git repository and will be working on customizing its look and feel while maybe systems@ can suggest a host to put this on and perhaps configure us a virtualhost for this infrastructure? Do we use a subdomain like ask.sugarlabs.org? I'll seed the instance with

[Sugar-devel] best options for sugar emulation

2010-10-09 Thread Sean Linton
Hi I have read in the documentation that Sugar on a Stick does not work so well on Mac computers and that from a testing point of view the best thing is to use a virtual machine. I am wondering if anyone can give me advice on the best option for testing sugar activities using a Mac and virtual mac

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Summary: Auckland NZ - 9 October 2010

2010-10-09 Thread Art Hunkins
Tabitha, i very much appreciate your feedback on the FileMix activity. Actually, two of the four options in FileMix require only the ASCII keyboard, not a MIDI controller. (This is the same in my other two activities, Our Music and SunMoonMusic.) The MIDI versions give better results and are mu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore activity icons

2010-10-09 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tim, On 9 Oct 2010, at 21:49, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 2 October 2010 04:46, Gary C Martin wrote: > Any catch your eye? > > I think series 1 will work best in small screens, but I think that series 4 > is more complete.. Thanks for your feedback, I tend to agree, version one or four. Vers

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Ask! Please! (Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On 9 October 2010 11:33, wrote: > Quoting Edward Cherlin : > >> I have a partial draft of a "textbook" on the subject at >> http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ It encourages XO owners to >> explore on their own and find out what questions they have before we >> give them answers. >> > > I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore activity icons

2010-10-09 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Gary C Martin's message of Fri Oct 01 17:46:56 +0200 2010: > As per your request on irc for some icon alternatives/clean-ups for your > Backup and Restore activities, here are a few variations/iterations. Thanks a lot and sorry for taking so long to respond! I like #2 (Journal ->

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 10/9/10, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to > ask a question) > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "Sebastian Silva" , "David Farning" > , sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, "Walter Bender" > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > I've been thinking of proposing a question&answer forum (maybe a > sugarlabs-branded shapado or similar instance > (http://gitorious.org/shapado). > > This way we can have a user-supported  (and a support-team) multi language > forum similar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > --- On Sat, 10/9/10, David Farning wrote: >> From: David Farning >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to >> ask a question) >> To: "Sebastian Silva" >> Cc: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" , >> sugar-

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore activity icons

2010-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On 2 October 2010 04:46, Gary C Martin wrote: > Any catch your eye? > I think series 1 will work best in small screens, but I think that series 4 is more complete.. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread James Cameron
On 10/10/2010, at 6:10 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > But IRC although a valuable avenue for certain things, directly contradicts > the views expressed earlier about the value of answering in public vs > private. No? > And yet it is used a lot :-\ An IRC channel is public, though it requir

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH v3 sugar] Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds or so SL#2080

2010-10-09 Thread James Cameron
On 09/10/2010, at 10:51 PM, Anurag Chowdhury wrote: > --- a/src/sugar/graphics/animator.py > +++ b/src/sugar/graphics/animator.py > @@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ class Animation(object): > # last frame > frame = self.end > else: > +for i in range(5): > +

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 10/9/10, David Farning wrote: > From: David Farning > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to > ask a question) > To: "Sebastian Silva" > Cc: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" , > sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, "Walter Bender" > A couple of months ag

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore activity icons

2010-10-09 Thread Gary Martin
Ping. --G On 1 Oct 2010, at 16:46, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Sascha, > > As per your request on irc for some icon alternatives/clean-ups for your > Backup and Restore activities, here are a few variations/iterations. First > off, here is a simple clean-up of the two icons you are using now,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > I've been thinking of proposing a question&answer forum (maybe a > sugarlabs-branded shapado or similar instance > (http://gitorious.org/shapado). > > This way we can have a user-supported  (and a support-team) multi language > forum simila

Re: [Sugar-devel] Status of Read activity

2010-10-09 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 19:20 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > If Morgs comes back and claims Read, we'll promptly return ownership to > him. For the time being, we'd better have an active maintainer on the > helm. Ah, you're not a committer on mainline because I was too lazy to do it by SQL command

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Sebastian Silva
I've been thinking of proposing a question&answer forum (maybe a sugarlabs-branded shapado or similar instance (http://gitorious.org/shapado ). This way we can have a user-supported (and a support-team) multi language forum similar to http://shapado.com/ or http://stackoverflow.com/ This way per

Re: [Sugar-devel] Status of Read activity

2010-10-09 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 16:36 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > > Would you like to become the new owner? > > If you're sure he won't work on it anymore, sure. But I just need write > access. If Morgs comes back and claims Read, we'll promptly return ownership to him. For the time being, we'd better

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH PoC sugar] add "favourites" view for XDG applications

2010-10-09 Thread Sascha Silbe
This is proof-of-concept code ("executable mock-up") for a favourites view based on XDG desktop entry files [1]. It shows icons for "legacy" applications (e.g. Gnome or KDE applications); the activity favourites view is left intact. XDG applications are started directly, without support for startu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Status of Read activity (was: Re: Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4)

2010-10-09 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 9 October 2010 15:28, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 14:08 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: >> > Who is the Read maintainer these days? AUTHORS still says Sayamindu, >> > but AIUI he stopped working on Sugar stuff. >> >> Then I could probably use commit rights on Read mainline. >

[Sugar-devel] [soas][devel] Is it time to add "install to HD" as a 2nd line on boot menu of the Soas .iso?

2010-10-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
In testing Soas in Nightly Composes I keep running into a problem with making the CD as a live CD and including features only needed for a liveinst install with Anaconda: *1_) Running as booted LiveCD:* Pop up for keychain password is unnecessary : Current behavior of booting live CD (This oc

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 10/9/10, Walter Bender wrote: > From: Walter Bender > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to > ask a question) > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 9:05 AM > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010

Re: [Sugar-devel] Status of Read activity (was: Re: Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4)

2010-10-09 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 14:08 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > > Who is the Read maintainer these days? AUTHORS still says Sayamindu, > > but AIUI he stopped working on Sugar stuff. > > Then I could probably use commit rights on Read mainline. Morgan Collet is still the owner of the read project on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Summary: Auckland NZ - 9 October 2010

2010-10-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Testing Summary: Auckland NZ - 9 October 2010 > > Who: Abhishek, Charlotte, Fabiana, John, Leslie, Robin, Tabitha, Tom > [snip] > Sliderule-21 > Pulsing icon of death, didn't start. Got logs. Raised sugarlabs ticket > #2429. Ouch. On 0.84 Su

Re: [Sugar-devel] Status of Read activity (was: Re: Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4)

2010-10-09 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 9 October 2010 14:01, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Lucian Branescu's message of Tue Sep 28 22:34:01 +0200 2010: > >> Epub support is not complete, you can see epubs, but none of the >> toolbars work. [...] > > FWIW, I'd much rather see a working, but stripped-down Read upstream > and in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Possible copyright infringement in activities.sl.o

2010-10-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > Well, we have the same problem at ceibaljam.org. > > The thing is, these games are being uploaded by 13-yr old kids. They > discovered how to package activities in two ways: > > 1) using Pippy's "export as .xo" function. They download games fr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > > > >> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:32:42 +1100 >> From: James Cameron >> To: Bernie Innocenti >> Cc: IAEP , >> sugar-devel >>     , >> David Farning , >>     c...@laptop.org, >> Ishan Bansal >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] how to ask a q

[Sugar-devel] Status of Read activity (was: Re: Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4)

2010-10-09 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Lucian Branescu's message of Tue Sep 28 22:34:01 +0200 2010: > Epub support is not complete, you can see epubs, but none of the > toolbars work. [...] FWIW, I'd much rather see a working, but stripped-down Read upstream and in all distros than a working, stripped-down one in Fedora

Re: [Sugar-devel] Possible copyright infringement in activities.sl.o

2010-10-09 Thread Gabriel Eirea
Well, we have the same problem at ceibaljam.org. The thing is, these games are being uploaded by 13-yr old kids. They discovered how to package activities in two ways: 1) using Pippy's "export as .xo" function. They download games from pygame.org and copy them at the right place in one of Pippy's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Summary: Auckland NZ - 9 October 2010

2010-10-09 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tabitha, et al, On 9 Oct 2010, at 07:19, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Tested Sugar 0.90 on XO-1.5 x 2 > No restart button only shutdown :-( > Frame key works. Opened physics. Drop a circle in the activity and it crashes > Physics. Thanks for testing, this Physics one is indeed http://bugs.sugarl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4

2010-10-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 09/25/2010 04:01 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, With this update below I've now fixed Read on Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-python2-desktop-2.31.1-7.fc14 I've only given it a cursory test so if others could please do so and add Karma (remember you need to be lo

[Sugar-devel] New upstream releases of telepathy-salut and telepathy-gabble

2010-10-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, there have been new releases of telepathy-salut and telepathy-gabble. Those fix #2389, so they are worth considering packaging for a good collaboration experience in Sugar 0.90. telepathy-gabble 0.10.3: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2010-October/004957.html telepathy-

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH v3 sugar] Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds or so SL#2080

2010-10-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On 9 October 2010 12:51, Anurag Chowdhury wrote: > When we click on the icon of an activity we see a pulsing icon of that > activity > before the activity starts and usually there is a time delay between the > clicking of the icon and appearance of the pulsing icon This patch doesn't make sense