Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN RFC] Onboarding

2015-12-27 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James One of the big problems in our community is the disconnect between the school server and the XO. The two work together form a system. Ejabberd supports gabble which is how collaboration works for XOs connected to a school server. The design of the school server has always made

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current status of GTK+ 3.x migration

2015-12-27 Thread James Cameron
Very interesting discussion. Perhaps the difficulties that Tony describes can be interpreted as emergent properties of the development process. However, others on private mailing lists, who are not so well informed, perceived these emergent properties as intended outcomes. These others are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN RFC] Onboarding

2015-12-27 Thread James Cameron
Sure, but as I said, not really a function of Sugar, but instead of the operating system that Sugar is installed on. Sugar does all the right things already. The other things you are using with Sugar, such as Moodle and ejabberd, are also somewhat out of scope for Sugar. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN RFC] Onboarding

2015-12-27 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James This issue of supporting more than one user per machine is very important in the wild (not many deployments can afford literally one laptop per child and so provide classroom sets with each laptop having multiple users. On registration, a new user is created server-side: the serial

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN RFC] Onboarding

2015-12-27 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Sam! I like the design. It reminds me of one we discussed in Netrek development at about the same phase of the project lifecycle; long after the peak of interest. It doesn't look like it would be much programming. It could involve sound as well; as reinforcement of each goal. It could

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current status of GTK+ 3.x migration

2015-12-27 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Walter Because of gmail issue, I am sending this through Sugar-devel. Most of the activities included in 0.106 (XO-1.5+) release have been moved to GTK3. The exceptions are: Calculate, Clock, Implode, Labyrinth, Measure, Moon, Pippy, Record, Speak, and TurtleBlocks. I suspect that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN RFC] Onboarding

2015-12-27 Thread James Cameron
Yes, but we're talking about Sugar here, not the XO. Sugar supports more than the XO. Sugar supports a school server using the register feature, which sets a Jabber server and a backup URL. Sugar uses the new Jabber server as a replacement for the default provided by Sugar Labs. Sugar does not