[Sugar-devel] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I'm trying to get a little bit more organised for this cycle than I have been over the last couple. The plans for SoaS v9 are going to be somewhat simple. We're going to stick with the 0.98.x release of Sugar and focusing on polish. I would like to see more people testing and using it

[Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Attached is a patch to review implementing the feature [1] Almost all the work was done by Agustin Zubiaga, in the context of Google Code in contest, with a few little improvements from Walter and me. This is a long requested feature. I think we can organize a contest to create a collection of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hello: V9 will be based on fedora 19? I'm downloading the latest (which i think would be for fedora 18) I'll be testing both during the weekend. Something in particular that you would like for me to tes or just Activities (that sounded like it was easy and fast, but i know it is not :-) cheers

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread lionel
Hi all, I’m thinking to do a proposal for GSoC around “Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5/JavaScript”. My idea is to package and enhance the work I’ve done on [1], specifically to fully avoid the need to write any Python code. I’ve got experience of student mentoring but

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Walter Bender
+1 On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:16 AM, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: Hi all, I’m thinking to do a proposal for GSoC around “Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5/JavaScript”. My idea is to package and enhance the work I’ve done on [1], specifically to fully avoid the need to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce S. r...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hello: V9 will be based on fedora 19? I'm downloading the latest (which i think would be for fedora 18) Yes, it will be based on Fedora 19. I'll be testing both during the weekend. Something in particular that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get a little bit more organised for this cycle than I have been over the last couple. The plans for SoaS v9 are going to be somewhat simple. We're going to stick with the 0.98.x release of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread James Simmons
Lionel, I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC. I like the work you've done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML 5 Activity and maybe this task could involve looking at several of these

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
May be you can coordinate with Daniel Narvaez? He was working on web activities too. Gonzalo On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: Hi all, ** ** I’m thinking to do a proposal for GSoC around “Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5/JavaScript”.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
A one line change in the patch. This patch replace the previous. Gonzalo 0001-Add-a-section-in-the-control-panel-to-configure-the-.patch Description: Binary data ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Martin Abente
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get a little bit more organised for this cycle than I have been over the last couple. The plans for SoaS v9

Re: [Sugar-devel] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get a little bit more

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Fri, March 22, 2013 10:29 am, James Simmons wrote: Lionel, I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC. I like the work you've done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML 5 Activity and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel Narvaez
I feel like there is a bit of confusion about both html activities and sugar on android which, in my mind, are pretty interconnected. I'm happy to write up a proposal if that helps moving towards a consensus and some kind of plan. It would probably take me a few days though. On Friday, 22 March

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Swift Feet-1

2013-03-22 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4655 Sugar Platform: 0.96 - 0.98 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28523/swift_feet-1.xo Release notes: Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread James Simmons
Edward, Since the Read Activity uses WebKit for reading EPUBs it seems likely that you could make an EPUB with JavaScript in it and make a sort of electronic pop-up book out of it. It might not be a strictly kosher EPUB, but Read probably wouldn't care. Maybe this could be something else to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread lionel
I feel like there is a bit of confusion about both html activities and sugar on android which, in my mind, are pretty interconnected. I'm happy to write up a proposal if that helps moving towards a consensus and some kind of plan. It would probably take me a few days though. HTML

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Is the way the draw is done in gtk. The eventbox is not a Image where you load a image and then is draw when needed. Gonzalo On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:42 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Not a blocking question: but why wait until the draw callback of the eventbox before calling

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Fri, March 22, 2013 12:19 pm, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Journal Share-2

2013-03-22 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4656 Sugar Platform: 0.96 - 0.98 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28524/journal_share-2.xo Release notes: This activity publish the favorites objects in the journal in a web page. Other users can download the

[Sugar-devel] JournalShare in ASLO

2013-03-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I have uploaded the activity JournalShare to ASLO http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4656 While the activity objective is improve sharing of journal objects in the classroom, I have used web technologies to allow a richer collaboration in the future, in line with the webservices

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I agree that it can be hard to find the present version of soas One reason v8 is not prominently displayed is that anaconda liveinst does not work for installation to a HD or USB See [4] for a work-around until this is fixed I am also listing the links for sweets-distribution-sugar 0.94 Tom

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 03/22/2013 02:09 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin wrote: On Fri, March 22, 2013 12:19 pm, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
One more link to a wiki page I just updated: wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/previous_versions (Soas v1-Soas-v7 -download links) Tom Gilliard On 03/22/2013 03:26 PM, Thomas Gilliard wrote: I agree that it can be hard to find the present version of soas One reason v8 is not prominently

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel Narvaez
On Friday, 22 March 2013, wrote: HTML activities on Sugar could be a first step to Android porting but IMO, the two projects are not necessarily interconnected. I do like the James idea of a “PhoneGap” framework for Sugar. This is the way I think this GSoC proposal. At the end of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:29 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Lionel, I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC. I like the work you've done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML

Re: [Sugar-devel] Features: Background image in Home View

2013-03-22 Thread Ajay Garg
Hi Gonzalo. Thanks for this awesome feature !! Just one small issue : I tried it on sugar-build, and sugar failed to start, because BACKGROUND_IMAGE_PATH was None. Changing the method _update_background_image to def _update_background_image(self, *args): self._background_pixbuf =