[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] 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] [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] [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] [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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] [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] 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] 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

2009-01-17 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] 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] [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] [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] 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] 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,

[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] 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

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] 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

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