[Sugar-devel] Adjusting the activity loading screen

2011-05-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm trying to create a simple launcher in Sugar that loads the GNOME Network Connections utility (nm-connection-editor)[0]. In its current state[1], the utility loads quickly and is usable. However, the loading screen stays up in the background for a full one and a half minutes. Is there a way

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Record UI

2011-05-02 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Gary. I think this design resolve the principal issue of my mockups, we can' t identify easily what function is in use. Perhaps, we can use a secondary toolbar to the less used options if necessary (quality, or new features like effects...) Gonzalo On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Gary

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Record UI

2011-05-02 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
A pending issue: I think the start/stop button must be in the toolbar, and not in the canvas. What you think? Gonzalo On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks Gary. I think this design resolve the principal issue of my mockups, we can' t identify

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Some quick comments on the Journal in 11.2.0 build 16 and Dextrose 508

2011-05-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 May 2011, at 04:59, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 17:55 -0500, James Simmons wrote: On an XO-1 you probably could not copy a 700 MB video to the Journal at all. My experience with CBZ files (Comic Book page images in a Zip file), which are generally 60 MB or so, made me

[Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 1.5 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
In the afternoon, our visit to the school was rained out. Instead we went to a local festival, after which two teachers joined us on the bus. There is a reoccurring theme of, There is no benefit in complaining about the hurdles, they are part of life. Let's, get the job doing. As this series of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Record UI

2011-05-02 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 2 May 2011, at 13:41, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: A pending issue: I think the start/stop button must be in the toolbar, and not in the canvas. What you think? Personally, I'm fine with having some widgets on the canvas, the start/stop makes sense to be there centred under the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread Art Hunkins
FWIW, this is a method I include in all my (strictly text-based) activities. It both sizes fonts to fit on various-width screens, and allows a user (or deployment) to decrease/increase font size. (It also works with all versions of Sugar for the XO and SoaS, to my knowledge.) def

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Gary Martin Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:13 PM To: Yamandu Ploskonka Cc: IAEP SugarLabs; Sugar-dev Devel Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Olidata

[Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
This morning we are in a classroom observing (and after a few minutes participating) in a class room session involving turtle art. The first task was to draw a rectangle with two side being 3 cm long and the other two side being less then 3 cm. This involved using as ruler to determine how many

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Speak-version

2011-05-02 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4038 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27336/speak-version.xo Release notes: *Adding AUTHORS file *pep8 fixes *Being more polite *Adding new answers *New pootle templates

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Speak-25

2011-05-02 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4038 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27337/speak-25.xo Release notes: *Adding AUTHORS file *pep8 fixes *Being more polite *Adding new answers *New pootle templates Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Record UI

2011-05-02 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:40:18AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: I think this design resolve the principal issue of my mockups, we can't identify easily what function is in use. Perhaps Record might be split into three activities ... still images, moving images with sound, and sound.

[Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2.5 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
The afternoon and evening sessions of the tour were a great complement to the morning session. Yes, you heard correctly, afternoon _and_ evening sessions:) Pablo has us hopping. Tomorrow morning starts a 600am. The afternoon session was again at public school 286. Rather than observe and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Adjusting the activity loading screen

2011-05-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 2 May 2011 16:55, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: I'm trying to create a simple launcher in Sugar that loads the GNOME Network Connections utility (nm-connection-editor)[0]. In its current state[1], the utility loads quickly and is usable. However, the loading screen stays