Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing Register button from sugar on non-XO machine

2008-12-06 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Dec 2008, at 22:20, Eben Eliason wrote: That depends. I suppose we might be able to support some services, like backup, in interesting ways in non-school situations. I think the more appropriate course of action is to pursue the idea of the collaboration server as a unique device in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Working math graphs/plots

2008-12-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Cheers, Reinier Gary C Martin wrote: On 13 Dec 2008, at 05:55, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 13 Dec 2008, at 01:53, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Working math graphs/plots

2008-12-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Dec 2008, at 23:56, Gary C Martin wrote: 3) The 'Reinier' way, put a help item in a hover palette/menu that reveals help 'in some way'. PROs - context sensitive (and developers only have to add help for complex features) - uses existing Sugar UI features CONs - Edward can't find

Re: [Sugar-devel] Some possible git patches for Labyrinth-4

2008-12-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Dec 2008, at 20:13, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:14, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu (and other Sugar devs), Here's some patches for the Labyrinth-4 work created with: git-format-patch 0d2bf1756d5f05b86a4f35ba8cbdb401b5cdb724

Re: [Sugar-devel] Some possible git patches for Labyrinth-4

2008-12-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Dec 2008, at 19:11, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Tomeu (and other Sugar devs), Here's some patches for the Labyrinth-4 work created with: git-format-patch 0d2bf1756d5f05b86a4f35ba8cbdb401b5cdb724 That covers all the commits I've re-made here to a clone of your

[Sugar-devel] Activity page wiki location?

2008-12-23 Thread Gary C Martin
I was just musing on building a wiki page to document the spin of Labyrinth I'm hacking on, and I was about to create: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Labyrinth So... Should Activity wiki pages be migrating over to SL infrastructure? --Gary ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art fork idea (was Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-12-23)

2008-12-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Dec 2008, at 00:30, Edward Cherlin wrote: I proposed separately making a TA tile set with icons rather than names, but I don't know if anybody has picked up the idea. I proposed a design, which just needs a graphic artist to make a new set of SVGs for the tiles. FWIW: it's on my radar,

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam proposal

2009-01-10 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Jan 2009, at 18:46, Wade Brainerd wrote: And that's why I'm proposing the creation of a SugarLabs ActivityTeam. The new team will be separate from the DevelopmentTeam, and will have the responsibility of maintaining and extending the suite of activities available for Sugar. We will:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:20, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of Candyland.

Re: [Sugar-devel] wiki bugs

2009-01-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:47, Wade Brainerd wrote: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved Missing images at the top. Can I put first dibs on making these images if no one else has started yet? I'm thinking a set of simple Sugar activity iconic style. --G

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Groupthink 0.1 pre-alpha

2009-01-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Jan 2009, at 17:33, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 18:23, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 14 Jan 2009, at 13:02, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi Ben, can we use this on non-sugar pygtk apps? For example, could we use it to add collaboration features to Labyrinth

Re: [Sugar-devel] wiki bugs

2009-01-16 Thread Gary C Martin
). --G On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 12 Jan 2009, at 18:34, Gary C Martin wrote: On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:47, Wade Brainerd wrote: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved Missing images at the top. Can I put first dibs on making

Re: [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

2009-01-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 15:54, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: Issues: We do not have a don't save those changes option. If you resume by default you

Re: [Sugar-devel] favorite layouts

2009-01-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jan 2009, at 16:32, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, was wondering what are people's opinions in uncommenting the favorite layouts that we already have in Sugar: LAYOUT_MAP = {RING_LAYOUT: favoriteslayout.RingLayout, #BOX_LAYOUT: favoriteslayout.BoxLayout,

Re: [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

2009-01-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Jan 2009, at 00:18, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 15:54, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: Issues: We do

Re: [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

2009-01-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Jan 2009, at 01:01, Gary C Martin wrote: On 21 Jan 2009, at 00:18, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 15:54, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jan 2009, at 22:06, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: Hi folks. I guess I'm somewhat confused with all the recent changes taking place in the OLPC/Sugar world. I have an XO, and for a while I was keeping up with all the latest joyrides. I think the last one I installed was just before the old

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas snapshot

2009-01-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Marco, On 27 Jan 2009, at 23:00, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: You can download the iso here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas-200901271941.iso Instructions on how to install it are here: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick I also made an experimental image for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Aside: Neighborhood participants

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Feb 2009, at 16:43, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morgan Collett wrote: Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump to the appropriate snowflake

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Feb 2009, at 01:02, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, whereby any activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] BugSquad - schedule triage meeting for this week

2009-02-10 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Feb 2009, at 12:12, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 1 will be available by the end of the week [1]. We should be cleaning up trac and get people going on triaging to be prepared for the flood of tickets that will come in in the upcoming weeks. So I want

Re: [Sugar-devel] Watching a trac component ?

2009-02-10 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Feb 2009, at 19:19, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Bugzilla has a nice feature which lets you watch certain components, so

Re: [Sugar-devel] XFT emacs rocks on the XO...

2009-02-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Feb 2009, at 05:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: Stock F9 emacs isn't very usable on the XO screen, unfortunately. Lack of fonts and high dpi make it rather painful. After struggling a bit to get a comfy hacking/editing environment on my XOs, I ended up installing the precooked Xft-enabled

Re: [Sugar-devel] XFT emacs rocks on the XO...

2009-02-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Feb 2009, at 16:25, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 16:52, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 05:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: Stock F9 emacs isn't very usable on the XO screen, unfortunately. Lack of fonts and high dpi make it rather painful

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Feb 2009, at 00:34, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: http://addons.sugarlabs.org is up and running I expected this to be activities.sugarlabs.org, since the choice of 'addons' comes from Firefox and isn't part of the usual Sugar vocabulary, no? I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
Sugar object in the UI. There are several such templates that will help simplify life for content providers, others are for swf and perhaps pdf (I have some plans to create that template – no intention to overlap with read's tasks). --Gary On 2/13/09, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Feb 2009, at 18:54, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, http://addons.sugarlabs.org is up and running. Please create accounts in there if you want to help in anything activity-related. Specifically, we need: - activity maintainers to upload their bundles, Was about to try uploading moon

Re: [Sugar-devel] 'Resume activity' is confusing for user

2009-02-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Mikus, On 15 Feb 2009, at 00:24, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: My observation from running Joyride 2650 on an XO-1: With 'Resume by default' checked in the Favorite view dropdown in Home View, those activity_icons for which a Journal entry now exists are colored. I __naively__ thought that if I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities migration status

2009-02-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Feb 2009, at 00:29, S Page wrote: Ed McNierney wrote: On the other hand, anyone working on Sugar efforts such as Activity development should be encouraged to put all those efforts under the Sugar Labs roof where they can be more readily available to the entire Sugar community (not

[Sugar-devel] Had a chance to try SoaS in anger...

2009-02-17 Thread Gary C Martin
... and it worked :-) Just back from a 3hr+ meeting with a potential school deployment, they'd contacted me a few weeks back regarding the desire for a 50 XO initial trial to improve e-learning skills (looking at about 100 total). Email Q/A with him were good until OLPC dropped the 'change

Re: [Sugar-devel] Had a chance to try SoaS in anger...

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Feb 2009, at 12:47, Caroline Meeks wrote: Thanks Gary, This was a fun email to wake up to. :) I though you might :-) Good luck and let us know how it goes! Some quick updates: He knew that SoaS was very much a work in development, but was very pleased to see it working (and has

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tom, Welcome, glad you could make it to the party! :-) On 18 Feb 2009, at 18:56, Tom Ziegmann wrote: I'm a newbie developer to the Sugar / OLPC projects, and I was wondering where the best place to start would be? I'm primarily interested in developing activities for the Sugar, and as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Have a discard option in the name a fresh instance dialog

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Feb 2009, at 20:31, Wade Brainerd wrote: As I understood it, the ability to Not Keep was an important part of this design, but I haven't seen the implementation yet. Is it not there, or maybe just not immediately discoverable? I too think it would be wonderful to have a Don't Keep

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should we call it? Addons of Activities

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Feb 2009, at 21:48, David Farning wrote: There has been some talk of what the final name for aslo should be. addons.sugarlabs.org or activities.sugarlabs.org +1 to activities, it's sugar friendly, relevant, and to be honest 'addons' as a (non-dictionary) name seems alien to me with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Have a discard option in the name a fresh instance dialog

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/18 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: On 18 Feb 2009, at 20:31, Wade Brainerd wrote: [snip] I'd like to see a 'don't keep' as well, but I think it's a bunch more complicated in the current data-store

Re: [Sugar-devel] resume by default

2009-02-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Feb 2009, at 15:23, Simon Schampijer wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi all, as you may know, we recently added a change to the favorites view that makes easier to resume existing instances instead of always launching new ones. This option is disabled by default and users need to go

[Sugar-devel] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-02-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Feb 2009, at 15:04, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, as the site is becoming more functional, we are in need of feedback before we direct there the masses. Could activity maintainers register and upload their last activity bundles? Please try to also upload at least one screenshot, the site

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Please update your activity info files for deprecated fields

2009-02-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Feb 2009, at 11:14, Simon Schampijer wrote: Dear activity developers, there are two deprecated fields in the activity.info [1] 'service_name' is deprecated please use 'bundle-id' instead. 'class' is deprecated and you should use the 'exec' command instead. The reason for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-02-20 Thread Gary C Martin
on the site do nothing when clicked right now. I just encountered the same problem. Looking at it right now. It works in addons-devel, so I suspect that the tricks for minimizing access to .js files are breaking production. Tomeu On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Gary C Martin g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-02-21 Thread Gary C Martin
more casual users start uploading to the site. :-) Cool. Well, now I've made it once all the way, I'll open some tickets next time through for the bumps. --Gary Special thanks to Wade for the steady stream of bug reports. david On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Gary C Martin g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Feb 2009, at 23:22, Caroline Meeks wrote: How will I know what snapshot I have on a given USB so that I can accurately report bugs? Hi Caroline, if you have a peek in the directory: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/ You'll see that Soas-200902221746.iso

Re: [Sugar-devel] nitpicks on the sucrose 0.83.6 UI

2009-02-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Feb 2009, at 19:52, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: Last one (I promisse): On resume mode, clicking on an already instantiated activity icon from home, should switch to that opened activity. Right now, it tries to re-launch instance that has been saved in the journal, and fails (doesnt pass

Re: [Sugar-devel] Location of Saved XO Settings

2009-02-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Feb 2009, at 07:51, FGrose wrote: The XO settings from the control panel used to rest in /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config. Where are they resting now in SoaS images? I think the majority of settings have moved to gconf; not a tool I've played with much but I'm assuming their must be

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity startup idea

2009-02-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Feb 2009, at 20:46, Wade Brainerd wrote: Opening up a conversation with Eben about the activity startup animation. The pulsing, scaling icon appears to slow down activity startup, at least on slow hardware like the XO. I suggested replacing the pulsing icon with a static one, and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity startup idea

2009-02-23 Thread Gary C Martin
. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 23 Feb 2009, at 20:46, Wade Brainerd wrote: Opening up a conversation with Eben about the activity startup animation. The pulsing, scaling icon appears to slow down activity startup, at least on slow hardware

[Sugar-devel] Permissions to upload honey sources

2009-02-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi folks, Just got a shell account on sunjammer (thanks Bernie!), and was hoping to upload the source of Moon-9 so that it appears in the (as I understand) official place for distros to go looking for honey: http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/ Now... the below wiki page

Re: [Sugar-devel] Permissions to upload honey sources

2009-02-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Feb 2009, at 14:44, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Unfortunately I don't seem to have permission to create a directory there. /upload/sources/honey is owned by marcopg, group sugarlabs; the other 4 directories in there were created by alsroot, group sugarlabs.

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Moon-9

2009-02-24 Thread Gary C Martin
== .XO Bundle == http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4034 http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/51/Moon-9.xo ...or use the software update panel. == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Moon/Moon-9.tar.bz2 == Git == http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/moon == Features ==

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Feb 2009, at 17:52, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: They are a single, indivisible cause, and also the entire reason for the existence of Sugar. Many operating systems provide users with a set of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed

2009-02-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Feb 2009, at 14:46, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, maybe the activity team can discuss and implement a new set of Categories for activities? I just copied the existing ones at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All Aha, I did wonder where the category list came from. I'm sure the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed

2009-03-01 Thread Gary C Martin
Regards, Gabriel 2009/2/28 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: Just forwarding the below to IAEP to catch more educator/teacher type eyeballs: Begin forwarded message: From: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com Date: 28 February 2009 15:54:17 GMT To: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org Cc

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:25, Luke Faraone wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: The underlying problem is that on Linux, users normally don't have direct access to removable media, only indirectly via mount (which is setuid). Other

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Terminal v24

2009-03-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Mar 2009, at 15:27, Wade Brainerd wrote: Sayamindu is right, I have been sitting on these changes for awhile and was waiting for 0.84 to release them. Sorry about not being clearer in the announcement. That said, this brings up an interesting question about activity releases and the

[Sugar-devel] Quick run through of Activities on Soas2-200903061846

2009-03-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi folks, I wanted to get an idea for what Activities are actually currently working in a reasonable condition, here's a quick run through using the latest SoaS F11 build – Tomorrow I'll do the same with a recent F11 build from cjb. A few of these have already been recently fixed at least

[Sugar-devel] Home Activity resume issues still in Soas2-200903061846?

2009-03-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi folks, Just wondered if the auto resume from home is meant to be fixed now in Soas2-200903061846? I saw the patches from Tomeu go past quite a while ago. For me in Soas2-200903061846 it's still causing duplicate instances of an activity rather than actually switching the the existing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Another Snapshot!

2009-03-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Mar 2009, at 20:10, Caroline Meeks wrote: I am getting a grey screen on the two computers I've tried it on. FWIW: It's booting fine here on a Mac using Sun's VirtualBox, haven't done much more than boot it and run a few Activities yet. Regards, --Gary On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Moon-10

2009-03-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Mar 2009, at 02:19, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Gary, When running on small screens (800x600) the text on the left hand side does not fit, but there is no scroll bar. The moon image scales fine. I get the 800x600 screen when running a SoaS2 snapshot iso in VMware Player on Windows.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Status of Pootle

2009-03-16 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 16 Mar 2009, at 13:10, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello everyone, I realize that there is some confusion regarding the status of Pootle. I guess I should have been a bit more clear about the status of Pootle, and should have kept people up to date about the move - my

Re: [Sugar-devel] content bundles and the OLPC Library Browse home page

2009-03-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Mar 2009, at 16:58, Wade Brainerd wrote: My hope going forward is that .xol bundles merge with .xo bundles and that they become one and the same, each appearing on the Home view for example. HTML would just be another development platform for writing Sugar activities, and what used to

Re: [Sugar-devel] content bundles and the OLPC Library Browse home page

2009-03-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Mar 2009, at 18:22, Eben Eliason wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 19 Mar 2009, at 16:58, Wade Brainerd wrote: My hope going forward is that .xol bundles merge with .xo bundles and that they become one and the same, each

Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal (need input) Beta

2009-03-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Mar 2009, at 20:34, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Wade Brainerd wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: I have to agree that a print to pdf function could be useful,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ars technica

2009-03-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 26 Mar 2009, at 19:42, Wade Brainerd wrote: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/sugar-labs-announces-new-version-of-sugar-learning-platform.ars Nice to see a positive article from Ars (if it is straight from the press release), since they panned just about everything OLPC

Re: [Sugar-devel] 7 Meilen Stiefel or New Soas-2 image available

2009-03-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 26 Mar 2009, at 23:27, Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi Simon, Here are tonight's test results. SoaS2 3-25 Connects to the internet but does not show anyone in my neighborhood view. FWIW, jabber.sugarlabs.org has been stuffed again since end of last week, so no collaboration :-(

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal oddity: metadata with no file?

2009-03-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 30 Mar 2009, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: Working a bit on the restore angle of things, if I look at the metadata entries to build a restorable Journal Entry Bundle... well... in many cases there is no file to build it from. I know previous releases of Sugar had a design

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #645 UNSP: make sugarlabs.org the default page

2009-03-31 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:59, Sean DALY wrote: I really like this idea, baseline so first-time visitors won't get lost between site sections Christian, would it be possible for you to put together that 1 page linking to the different sections + Google? FWIW: Assuming it's not being worked on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Distributors mixing across Sugar branches (Was: Terminal v25 (attention distro managers!!))

2009-04-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Apr 2009, at 15:09, David Farning wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:43:04PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:12, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #645 UNSP: make sugarlabs.org the default page

2009-04-01 Thread Gary C Martin
, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 1 Apr 2009, at 05:52, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 31 Mar 2009, at 22:40, Gary C Martin wrote: On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:59, Sean DALY wrote: I really like this idea, baseline so first-time visitors won't

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #645 UNSP: make sugarlabs.org the default page

2009-04-01 Thread Gary C Martin
://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/645/simple_static_page_v3.png --G Christian On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 1 Apr 2009, at 05:52, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 31 Mar 2009, at 22:40, Gary C Martin wrote: On 30 Mar 2009

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #645 UNSP: make sugarlabs.org the default page

2009-04-02 Thread Gary C Martin
tweaks): http://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/645/simple_static_page_v3.png --G Christian On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 1 Apr 2009, at 05:52, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 31 Mar 2009, at 22:40, Gary C

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Browse-106

2009-04-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Apr 2009, at 10:50, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sorry to rush on this, but barring objections, I get the feeling this is getting close to happening in the next 24hrs... http://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket

Re: [Sugar-devel] File transfer in Gabble!

2009-04-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Apr 2009, at 18:43, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Hey guys, I know that lot of you were waiting this feature since a long time; file transfer in Gabble is there! Thanks for your patience. Hey, cool! Thanks Guillaume!! Regards, --G I did some (very simple) tests with Sugar and it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 Apr 2009, at 20:17, Wade Brainerd wrote: The idea that activities actually exist in the Journal (and only in the Journal) is really exciting to me. Yes, it's a right old lucky dip mess for what you find in Journal for Activity bundles just now. Old bundle versions that you're not sure

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-5

2009-04-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Michael, On 11 Apr 2009, at 06:48, Michael Stone wrote: P.S. One notable bug for XO 8.2 distro users, is that adding images from the Journal is currently broken (bumping into rainbow), adding images works fine on sugar-jhbuild and should be fine on Soas distros and xo-rawhide (though I

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Apr 2009, at 14:23, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: Hi! I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that new software is going to require a computer more

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

2009-04-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:37, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, after our most recent beta release, we've now a new image ready for you! This is the first of a number of snapshots on our road to another real SoaS release. Links to the iso image, as well as the archive with the appliance

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Apr 2009, at 09:31, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:10, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:37, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, after our most recent beta release, we've now a new image ready for you! This is the first of a number

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:35, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: In general, as root use: # find / -type f -exec grep -nH 'SUGAR_SCALING' {} \; Thanks Carol. I had tried something similar before emailing, but it just hung after a long wait, just retried with the below and it found a few occurrences

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Apr 2009, at 21:56, Martin Dengler wrote: I think you're looking for /home/liveuser/.Xclients: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/sugar.ks#line56 Thanks Martin, that's what I was looking for :-) but a live soas2-20090423.vmdk doesn't seem to have that .

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Apr 2009, at 01:39, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:29:21PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 24 Apr 2009, at 21:56, Martin Dengler wrote: I think you're looking for /home/liveuser/.Xclients: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/sugar.ks

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Advanced search on ASLO

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Apr 2009, at 03:46, Josh Williams wrote: Hey everyone, I've finally started a style sheet for ASLO. You can see what I have so far at http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ . It's not much, but I'm moving forward. Fab :-) Just wondering if there was a consensus to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gnumeric for sugar

2009-04-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 26 Apr 2009, at 09:21, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello everyone, It looks like the latest development version of Gnumeric has a libspreadsheet library, which may make it possible to make an Activity out of it. It exposes a structure[1] which lets you access many of the widgets inside the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keyboard shortcuts

2009-04-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Still think this is a tough, disruptive sell for very small gains. We should focus on getting activity authors (and sugar) using the now fully functioning accelerator feature to self document shortcuts. Anyway, just some quick comments: On 1 May 2009, at 03:28, Jameson Quinn wrote: I am

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keyboard shortcuts

2009-05-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 May 2009, at 18:21, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2009/5/1 Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:48:08AM -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: OK, the grand unified proposal for these, after discussion on IRC and the above is: f,j,r,s,v,p,o - frame, journal, rotate, say,

[Sugar-devel] Monthly SOM for sugar-devel

2009-05-01 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi all, here's the monthly SOM for April's sugar-devel traffic (~700 emails): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Image:2009-April-Sugar_devel_som.jpg Regards, --Gary ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing the 'Erase' options from activity righ click menu

2009-05-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 May 2009, at 13:59, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: This is a recurrent problem. Perhaps we should have an option in the control panel to enable/disable the showing of the Erase option for activities or make moving the Erase option a few more clicks away (perhaps inside the control

Re: [Sugar-devel] what version of Sugar is this please?

2009-05-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 12:56, Gary C Martin wrote: On 12 May 2009, at 08:38, Sean DALY wrote: http://olpc.teachingmatters.org/node/99 Could be 767 at the very latest Oops, sorry, clearly needed another coffee before sending... 767 was when the home and the frame swapped roles (frame

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio

2009-05-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 23:23, John Tierney wrote: Hello All, Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the abilities of Turtle art Portfolio along with the things each of us are working on. The email below came from my inability(due to my confusing question)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run 'make install'

2009-05-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 May 2009, at 12:00, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 05/19/2009 10:52 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: Anyone managed to work around the Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run 'make install' yet? I'd been religiously avoiding updating sugar- jubuild for a few weeks as it was working fine (other

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

2009-05-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 May 2009, at 11:51, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, Revisiting the topic of replacing matchbox with a more standard window manager[1], I have just uploaded a soas2 build in which Sugar uses (unmodified) metacity instead of matchbox. The image also has the Gimp, xterm and gcalctool so

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity development

2009-05-24 Thread Gary C Martin
to duplicate your approach for Physics (I've not looked at X2o code yet so I'm likely off mark)? Regards, --Gary Alex On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Brian, On 24 May 2009, at 18:36, Brian Jordan wrote: Hey all, Gary -- when you get a chance

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-25 Thread Gary C Martin
a future update control panel checking with activity.sugarlabs.org). Regards, --Gary David On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi David, On 24 May 2009, at 11:47, David Van Assche wrote: Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix

Re: [Sugar-devel] Who wants to adopt the Clock activity?

2009-05-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Pierre, On 26 May 2009, at 02:24, Pierre Métras wrote: Hi Gary, I've read in a recent post in the Sugar IAEP list where you explained how to make an activity adopted by the Activity Team. Are you part of this team or how can I contact them without having to create a new account to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum repo to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. As it turned out, the plymouth package has been

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: Sebastian, Gary I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for awhile Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. --G What's the deadline please? thanks Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin g

Re: [Sugar-devel] Official homepages for activities are at laptop.org?

2009-05-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jonas, On 30 May 2009, at 09:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, While updating packages for Debian, I failed to find proper homepages for activities at wiki.sugarlabs.org - and core introduction at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Official homepages for activities are at laptop.org?

2009-05-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jonas, On 30 May 2009, at 19:05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:03:34PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Jonas, On 30 May 2009, at 09:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: While updating packages for Debian, I failed to find

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Gary C Martin
, May 30, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Sean, On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote: Christian, Eben I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, celebrating Sugar interface.iconography

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-7

2009-05-31 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi folks, Latest version of Labyrinth, fresh out of the oven. == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Labyrinth/Labyrinth-7.tar.bz2 == Bundle == http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078/ == Wiki page == http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Labyrinth ==

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jun 2009, at 09:05, Martin Dengler wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:36:46PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: [delete that page you talked about, create a page with just orphaned activities] Help welcome! You're being too polite :). Me? Polite? How very dare you ;-) I can't tell

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dynamic content collections for Browse Journal (Emle).

2009-06-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jun 2009, at 16:02, C.W. Holeman II wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Application_Stack shows the replacement of the special .xol format for browse with the more general Journal. http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/840 Populate Journal with a handful of useful/exemplary items seems

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