Re: [Sugar-devel] Purpose for Help Activity

2012-10-16 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tony, On 16 Oct 2012, at 14:34, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote: Hi, What is the purpose of help? In Windows, help is a method to find out how to accomplish a particular task using an application. It is not a means to learn how to use the computer or Windows. The Help

Re: [Sugar-devel] Purpose for Help Activity

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, The ShowNTell activity provides both slide show and sound capability. The slides are images at present. Slide shows based on screenshots are easy to create. I am trying to port it to use webkit so the slides can be html. This is a problem at present because use of webkit now requires a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Purpose for Help Activity

2012-10-16 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tony, On 16 Oct 2012, at 15:47, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote: Hi, The ShowNTell activity provides both slide show and sound capability. The slides are images at present. Hmmm, seems like some amount of overlapping activity effort and target use cases going on. You might

Re: [Sugar-devel] Purpose for Help Activity

2012-10-16 Thread S. Daniel Francis
2012/10/16 Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org: Help issues are known and we need solve it, but I don't agree with the proposed solution. The style can be changed with css, that is not a problem. The biggest problem we have today, is found people to write the help. If we impose to a potential

Re: [Sugar-devel] Purpose for Help Activity

2012-10-16 Thread S. Daniel Francis
2012/10/16 Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net: Hi, What is the purpose of help? In Windows, help is a method to find out how to accomplish a particular task using an application. It is not a means to learn how to use the computer or Windows. This is a manual, when the XOs got my school, they

Re: [Sugar-devel] Purpose for Help Activity

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I confess I haven't seen either the Welcome or Bulletin Board activities. I also saw there is a Teach Teacher activity. These all look like promising contributions. Naturally, the translation issue with a screenshot depends on the amount of text in the screen. In ShowNTell, my usual

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.97.7

2012-10-16 Thread Simon Schampijer
The where did my mouse pointer go release. == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.97.7.tar.bz2 == News == * Release 0.97.7 (Simon Schampijer) * Prevent crash if the controller didn't handle TOUCH_BEGIN (Carlos Garnacho) *

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-artwork-0.97.7

2012-10-16 Thread Manuel Quiñones
The welcome back Sugar sliders release. == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.97.7.tar.bz2 == News == * Release 0.97.7 (Manuel Quiñones) * GtkScale: Add margin to the scale trough to recover the original style - SL #3983 (Manuel

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-0.97.8

2012-10-16 Thread Simon Schampijer
The maybe we will have working networking, 5th time lucky release. == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.97.8.tar.bz2 == News == * Release 0.97.8 (Simon Schampijer) * Update Sucrose version for upcoming 0.97.8 (Simon Schampijer) * Request AP

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Browse-144

2012-10-16 Thread Manuel Quiñones
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-144.tar.bz2 == News == * Release 144 (Manuel Quiñones) * Show url in url entry when page can not be loaded, SL #4039 (Manuel Kaufmann) * Touch: on long-press on a link or image show the Palette (Simon Schampijer)

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Browse-144

2012-10-16 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4024 Sugar Platform: 0.98 - 0.98 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28283/browse-144.xo Release notes: == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-144.tar.bz2 == News == *

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Recall-3

2012-10-16 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4567 Sugar Platform: 0.98 - 0.98 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28284/recall-3.xo Release notes: 3 ENHANCEMENTS: * New translations * GTK-3 port by Ignacio Rodríguez NOTE: GTK-3 version is for Sugar 0.98+

[Sugar-devel] A log with bugs in Sugar on XO-4.

2012-10-16 Thread S. Daniel Francis
I copy the file shell.log extracted from my XO-4 after some tests in Sugar. (Not very sure) The errors in this log could be related with: 1) Clipboard doesn't work for me. 2) After connect successfully to the router in my house, I could not connect again to that router. I'll try to reproduce