[Sugar-devel] 10.1.3 Testing page available

2010-12-10 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, we have a page [1] available where you are invited to gather your 10.1.3 testing results. We hope to find out more quickly possibly introduced regressions and get a sense of what works well. There are some tests where details about the hardware you used are of interest to us (e.g. Internet

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread Erik Blankinship
Thank you for these suggestions. It is sometimes a designer's prerogative to present their work in one format. Numerous examples are available on the iPhone and android markets. Is it possible to override or be notified of a rotation signal? Or is the answer to really remap the display and

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: It is sometimes a designer's prerogative to present their work in one format. Numerous examples are available on the iPhone and android markets. It is sometimes a platform designer's perogative to enforce human interface

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:50:54PM -0500, Bakhtiar Mikhak wrote: If I am reading the current version of HIG correctly, it is not a requirement for developers to implement a portrait layout for their activity: Screen Rotation While in Hand-held mode, the laptops support screen

[Sugar-devel] DebXO 0.6 release

2010-12-10 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, After waay to long of a delay, I just tagged and built DebXO 0.6. In some ways, it's very polished (I've actually tested all of the desktops myself), in other ways it has a number of regressions (due to Debian updates breaking things, switching to an almost-stock Linus kernel,

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread James Simmons
Erik, Here is how you can be notified when the screen is rotated: First, listen for the expose event in PyGTK: self.connect(expose_event, self.area_expose_cb) Here is the method that gets invoked: def area_expose_cb(self, area, event): screen_width = gtk.gdk.screen_width()

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Messages notification

2010-12-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Martin, On 8 Dec 2010, at 05:11, Martin Abente wrote: The design looks great, and I like the fact that it attaches each notification to its real context when there is a visible one (i,e an activity, journal, battery device icon, etc). How would it work with notifications that are not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Messages notification

2010-12-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 7 Dec 2010, at 10:40, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 23 Nov 2010, at 17:23, Martin Abente wrote: Awesome, let me know whenever you got something to share :) Just wanted to pass on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Messages notification

2010-12-10 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi Martin, On 8 Dec 2010, at 05:11, Martin Abente wrote: The design looks great, and I like the fact that it attaches each notification to its real context when there is a visible one (i,e an activity, journal,

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-10 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Bakhtiar Mikhak mik...@mediamods.comwrote: On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:14 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: It is sometimes a designer's prerogative to present their work in one format. Numerous examples

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Messages notification

2010-12-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Frederick, On 11 Dec 2010, at 04:24, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 8 Dec 2010, at 05:11, Martin Abente wrote: The design looks great, and I like the fact that it attaches each

[Sugar-devel] how to use custom gstreamer elements bundled in activities?

2010-12-10 Thread Erik Blankinship
I have created a gstreamer plugin I want to bundle with an activity. I looked at one way mp3 support is handled, and it requires a permanent addition to /usr/lib/gstreamer http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fluendo_mp3_decoder I would like to avoid that extra step. Any suggestions how to reference a

Re: [Sugar-devel] how to use custom gstreamer elements bundled in activities?

2010-12-10 Thread Erik Blankinship
Some more research suggests I need to specify a GST_PLUGIN_PATH for my activity. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2120444/gstreamer-plugin-search-path I am having a hard time figuring out how to do this in pygst. The bindings are great, but sometimes obscure. Any pygst experts out there?

Re: [Sugar-devel] how to use custom gstreamer elements bundled in activities?

2010-12-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:30:22AM -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: Some more research suggests I need to specify a GST_PLUGIN_PATH for my activity. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2120444/gstreamer-plugin-search-path I am having a hard time figuring out how to do this in pygst. The