Re: [Sugar-devel] is olpcgames obsolete?

2009-06-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/6/25 Asaf Paris Mandoki asa...@gmail.com: Wondering around sugarlabs wiki I found the way to save the current state of an activity to the journal here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.activity.activity The

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Physics Activity] Saving contraptions

2009-06-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Asaf, On 18 Jun 2009, at 02:42, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: I've been doing some research and I think that the easiest way to save a world is by pickling. Pybox2d already supports it so it is pretty straightforward. I think this should be implemented at the level of Elements and not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Strawberry VDI, please

2009-06-25 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Jun 2009, at 21:00, Dave Bauer wrote: It was creatd witth Virtualbox 2.2.4. I tested on Virtualbox hosts on Linux and Mac OS X. FWIW, boots fine here on a MacBook Pro using VirtualBox 2.2.4. Regards, --Gary Dave On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Ton van Overbeek tvoverb...@gmail.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with the Sugar UI.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Print Queue and Device Icon

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Vamsi, On 23 Jun 2009, at 08:35, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote: Eben, Thanks for replying, I have taken your suggestions into account and have made this. It now randomly 1) It takes a hash of the username for coloring the icon Re 'username', this is the name of the printer and/or

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Update: SharedTextDemo-3

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jun 2009, at 10:22, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:56, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SharedTextDemo-3 is available at http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/SharedTextDemo-3.xo Congrats, I'm wondering if any

[Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday June 26th - 17:00 UTC

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi All, David Farning has suggested agenda items for the ActivityTeam to cover; I'm not sure we can realistically solve many, but it would at least be good to see what page each of us is on, where we might be able to pull in the same direction, and bounce about some ideas in realtime :-)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Physics-2

2009-06-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jun 2009, at 05:08, Aleksey Lim wrote: Activity was titled for 0.84 only, but it works fine in XO-767 environment. Hmm, I did test it on both, and ticked both boxes (0.82 and 0.84) when I submitted the Activity form. I'll go take another look and make sure it stuck correctly.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar + OLPC mesh network selection logic

2009-06-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jun 2009, at 15:44, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/6/10 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu: Daniel Drake wrote: And now the logic I want to implement, which is similar to that in previous OLPC OS releases: - First, attempt to connect to any known

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar + OLPC mesh network selection logic

2009-06-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jun 2009, at 02:11, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Gary, But, auto attach to any old public AP with no prior user selection? That's just asking for trouble... What trouble is that asking for? A very fair question: I think that Sugar should prioritize what its user might want over what the

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-21 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eduardo, On 21 Jun 2009, at 23:46, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: 2009/6/19 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: On 18 Jun 2009, at 10:29, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21, Sascha Silbesascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jun 2009, at 00:08, David Farning wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 19 Jun 2009, at 23:06, David Farning wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:37 AM, S Pageskierp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:19 AM, James

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Important: Please test the new Snapshot!

2009-06-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jun 2009, at 18:55, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: Preloaded maps work fine. Is it too late to get anything else on there? Like the Sugar Manual? Well, we'd need to get this as a pdf file. And the description and tags for it. I'm not sure if this can be done in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Print Queue and Device Icon

2009-06-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jun 2009, at 20:16, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote: Hi Gary, Thanks for your interest in the project, I think your mockup design looks like a better cake than mine. It doesn't needlessly complicate the interface, and , the removal of the source printer seems like a better design

[Sugar-devel] [Physics Activity] aiming to do a v2 release late today

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Asaf, Just wanted to send out a quick ping. If you have no objections, I'm going to try and do a formal Physics-2 release later today with the changes we have so far. Will hopefully have the toolbar stop/play button in-place and tested (0.82, 0.84, sugar-jhbuild), and will likely also

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi Eben/other interested victims, I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've designed things) some interfaces that allow for switching between Sugar and GNOME for the XO-1.5 builds. I'm looking for feedback on the design and any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/7c/Refined-XO-sugar-boot.gif Regards, --Gary Thanks, Christian Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Christian, On 19 Jun 2009, at 17:53, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: Hi Sean, picking up on one of your

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jun 2009, at 23:06, David Farning wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:37 AM, S Pageskierp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:19 AM, James Simmonsjim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: I've also replaced the contents of the old wiki.laptop.org with a link to ASLO. That's a little

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Physics Activity] aiming to do a v2 release late today

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Folks, On 19 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Asaf, Just wanted to send out a quick ping. If you have no objections, I'm going to try and do a formal Physics-2 release later today with the changes we have so far. Sorry, there'll be no release of Physics-2 in time – way too

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 10:29, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21, Sascha Silbesascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Wonder if that's intended, as going to a zoom level involves some kind of animation, i.e. is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 11:48, Brian Jordan wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 17 Jun 2009, at 06:29, Edward Cherlin wrote: Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade gravity lesson?

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:10, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe sugar.activity.assess. Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. The obvious thing, to me, is to store it in the Datastore object's metadata properties.

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:28, James Simmons wrote: David, I am doing that now, but the page I'm pointing to is the one on wiki.laptop.org. Should I abandon that page and create a new one somewhere else? Should I perhaps move my pages to wiki.sugarlabs.org and replace my

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jun 2009, at 06:29, Edward Cherlin wrote: Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade gravity lesson? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt I had a read, but it didn't get me very far, sorry – competing with an Alan Kay presentation is always going to be

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Jun 2009, at 20:50, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: we are considering using the composite extension in order to improve the perceived graphics performance of Sugar. It would be great if someone could test it by running the following. As root: yum install xcompmgr As normal user in the terminal

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-2

2009-06-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Jun 2009, at 01:59, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Bobby Powers wrote: Sounds great! Are you expecting more performance gains in the future? Only if someone implements them! Definitely has my interest!! Useful collaboration is _really_ tough, your Groupthink potentially offers a

Re: [Sugar-devel] French Help Activity

2009-06-13 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi David, On 13 Jun 2009, at 02:58, David Farning wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 12 Jun 2009, at 18:02, David Farning wrote: This might be a ridiculous question Are the strong reasons for maintaining a help activity rather than

Re: [Sugar-devel] French Help Activity

2009-06-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Jun 2009, at 11:27, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 21:42, LASKE, Lionel (C2S)lla...@c2s.fr wrote: But of course, we want to go further. Since the last SugarCamp Paris, we dream to build the Help activity in French. I know there was already a talk on the Help

Re: [Sugar-devel] French Help Activity

2009-06-12 Thread Gary C Martin
perfectly make sense for me. We target 0.82 so I just need to repackage the zip file with the localized content to have a working French Help Activity. Thanks a lot for your Help ;-) Best regards from France. Lionel. -Message d'origine- De : Gary C Martin [mailto:g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jun 2009, at 08:37, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, Let me finalize this What tags we should use for GCompris/Fructose/ etc discussion :) New AMO version and incoming ASLO v3 version have collections feature https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections I think we can move tags

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jun 2009, at 14:10, Sean DALY wrote: Bert - many thanks, I understand much better now. We're expecting a traffic peaks at the end of the month with our media push, that's why this work on clarity/simplicity is important. I'm afraid Fructose as a left-hand category on ASLO is obscure,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-11 Thread Gary C Martin
to your Terminal standard out. Regards, --Gary P.S. finally cc'ing sugar devel in this thread for folks that know way more than me. Greetings, Asaf On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Asaf, On 8 Jun 2009, at 04:28

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 10 Jun 2009, at 17:48, James Simmons wrote: Martin, First and foremost ASLO has to make sense to grade school kids and their teachers. That's why I didn't care for GCompris as a category. Now since we can give an Activity up to three Categories it might make sense to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:24, James Simmons wrote: Martin, I phrased that poorly. A kid might care that James Simmons wrote Read Etexts. He probably won't care if James Simmons is a part of Sugar Labs, or part of the community, or if it was part of GCompris, or if we consider Read

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

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
thanks to alsroot making activities.sugarlabs.org send out the [RELEASE] emails): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/FAQ Regards, --Gary kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 25 May 2009, at 12:33

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:33, Sean DALY wrote: outside bugtracker I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could be plugged into a netbook for mesh. That said may be a silly question but I'm a bit mystified about getting my meshed XO-1s to play with my SoaS netbooks, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Jun 2009, at 00:53, Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:20:41AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Hmmm this is an opportunity to display my ignorance and/or confusion, but my XOs usually just find each other on the mesh Unfortunately this 'just find' is actually a complex process

Re: [Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79?NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Jun 2009, at 02:29, Martin Dengler wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:16:12PM -0300, Andrés Ambrois wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:07:19 pm Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:46:07AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: There's another 'non-mesh' option possible for the '3 kids

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

2009-06-07 Thread Gary C Martin
attention to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

2009-06-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 7 Jun 2009, at 18:18, Lucian Branescu wrote: 1. I don't really want to zip it if I can avoid it. If I do zip it and get an .xo, how can I add it to the Journal programatically? 2. I've changed that. All SSBs are subdomains to org.sugarlabs.ssb (like org.sugarlabs.ssb.GMailActivity)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:24, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:09, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Jun 2009, at 21:19, James Simmons wrote: David, Four of the Activities you will be testing use pretty much the same code for collaboration: sugar-read sugar-readetexts-activity sugar-viewslides sugar-imageviewer For what it's worth, ImageViewer is definitely not collaborating

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Frederick, On 6 Jun 2009, at 00:30, Frederick Grose wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: ... FWIW, David Van Assche raised some interesting Activity ideas at SugarCamp Paris and I'm interested/active in getting us to at lease 'demo' state

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

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:24, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at startup?) Coloured dots

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

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames over the weekend we

[Sugar-devel] Finally got a Soas stick booting an XO

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi All, I finally got a Soas stick (based on Soas2-200906031834.iso) booting from an XO after sitting down again for an hour or so and poking about the wiki instructions. The current wiki instructions did lead me a little astray, but before I go edit (too much) I wanted to email the list

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

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. Just uploaded an animated version showing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Bugs] #925 HIGH: Scratch is not sugarized

2009-06-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jun 2009, at 13:53, Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi, Should this bug really get closed or is there some other state it could be in? I'd say a trac ticket must have a real named owner to be of any use. Sugarizing Scratch is clearly a legitimate feature request. It's more an onerous task,

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

[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] 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

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] [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] [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] [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] 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] [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] [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] 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] [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] 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

2009-03-31 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] 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] [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] 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] 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] [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] [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] [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] [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] 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.

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