[Sugar-devel] Seeking Guidance to start contributing to Sugar Labs

2018-11-01 Thread Swarup N
Hello, My name is Swarup N and I'm a pre-final year student from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, pursuing B.E (Hons) in Computer Science. I code regularly and like try out new projects, building widgets and games that help in automation. I mostly work in python and I'm well versed

[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal 2019

2019-04-02 Thread Swarup N
Hi, I have attached my proposal for GSoC 2019 for the 'Improve and maintain 20 Sugar Activities' project. I request everyone to provide me valuable feedback so that I can continue to improve it. Warm Regards, Swarup N. GSoC_Swarup_final.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2019 Project Idea

2019-02-18 Thread Swarup N
Hello, My name is Swarup N, and I have been contributing to sugarlabs for the past 2 months. I am relatively new to open source, but I hope to catch up soon. The last two months have proved quite fruitful, in terms of learning and understanding the code base. Going over the recent threads

[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal 2019

2019-04-07 Thread Swarup N
Hi everyone, My name is Swarup N and here is my proposal for the "Improve and maintain 25 activities" project, after certain modifications and changes. Please let me if anyone feels it can be improved in any way. Regards, Swarup GSoC_Swarup.pdf Description: Adobe PD

[Sugar-devel] Regarding opening one Sugar activity from inside another

2019-05-27 Thread Swarup N
Hi, Just wanted to know how one might spawn new activities from inside another activity? For example: If I had to open Browse-activity from Terminal-activity, via a clickable link on the screen (If it had existed, right now its doesn't, but work is being made :) ). How can I do so? Is there any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Running Sugar Desktop on Ubuntu 18.04

2019-06-02 Thread Swarup N
is owned by root. The directory */home/guest/ *is owned by guest itself. Please advise on how I should proceed from here. -Swarup N On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 9:57 AM James Cameron wrote: > Oh, and I forgot to mention; the .xsession file is not used if you > have chosen Sugar from the deskto

[Sugar-devel] Launching Activity from within another activity

2019-06-03 Thread Swarup N
have been working on it for some time now, and I haven't been able t figure it out. I'll send a similar mail to @Sugar-dev Devel as well. Thought I should ask you personally as well! Thank you, -Swarup N ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding opening one Sugar activity from inside another

2019-06-03 Thread Swarup N
rocess of making the right import instances and API calls. Thanks and Regards, Swarup- N ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Running Sugar Desktop on Ubuntu 18.04

2019-06-02 Thread Swarup N
e anyone has encountered such a issue before. I have tried establishing a sugar desktop, on both a bare machine with just Ubuntu 18.04, as well as a VM (Oracle Virtualbox), and in both the places, I've encountered the same issue. Thanks, - Swarup N ___

[Sugar-devel] Unable to locate source package for sugar-toolkit (Native Installation of sugar v0.114)

2019-05-22 Thread Swarup N
anyone guide me on how to proceed from here? Thanks and Regards, Swarup N ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2019 - Welcome to Sugar Labs

2019-05-07 Thread Swarup N
I might have provided the wrong link to the blog. I have provided the correct link below. https://nswarup14.github.io/ I apologise for the inconvenience. On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:37 PM Swarup N wrote: > Greetings mentors and fellow students, > > I have created a github.io blog a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unable to start collaboration on Ubuntu 18.04 VM

2019-07-05 Thread Swarup N
Hello, I was able to establish collaboration by creating two new VM's and installing Sugar via the Live Build method.I used an already available .iso Sugar file, however it is v0.112. In order to upgrade to v0.114, I entered the */usr/src/* directory where all the 5 sugar modules are present. In

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and wants to get started

2019-07-11 Thread Swarup N
Hi apoorv, Here's a list by James, that you should look at. New to Sugar Labs? Unlock these achievements in any order; 1. Use Sugar or Sugarizer, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/how-can-i-help.md * by using Sugar or Sugarizer you will learn how it works, and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unable to start collaboration on Ubuntu 18.04 VM

2019-06-30 Thread Swarup N
I get the following error message. Unable to connect to ibus: could not connect: connection refused. I'm not sure if it is related to the issue at hand Thanks. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] AbiWord version while using Sugar

2019-08-19 Thread Swarup N
Hello, I have been working on the Write-activity since yesterday. After going through the issues opened on GitHub, and many in https://bugs.sugarlabs.org, I realised that several bugs exist in the activity, because of bugs in AbiWord. Several places in the activity as well, there mentions of

[Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-07-30 Thread Swarup N
Hi, I setup Sugar 0.114 via the Native method on a new laptop. On running *sugar-activity, *I get the following message. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/sugar-activity", line 5, in activityinstance.main() File

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-07-31 Thread Swarup N
call through the D-Bus API > will > > restart the datastore. The traceback you pasted shows this has > > happened, and then the datastore failed again. > > > > Check the D-Bus service file created by the datastore source. It may > > refer to the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-07-31 Thread Swarup N
) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.laptop.sugar.DataStore exited with status 1 (metacity:1487): metacity-WARNING **: 11:21:58.045: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct. Thanks On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:54

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-07-31 Thread Swarup N
start > it, and look for errors. > > Hope that helps. > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 08:21:27AM +0530, Swarup N wrote: > > I agree with James, > > I have not had a problem with the order either, because I have often used > > multiple orders while settings up Sugar v0.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-08-01 Thread Swarup N
onsider porting to Python 3", with a considerable amount of whitespace in between in words. Could it be possible that the issue of running sugar activities was introduced at the commit where the warning got updated? Thanks. On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 7:12 AM Swarup N wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-08-01 Thread Swarup N
irectories, and logged out and logged in with Sugar-desktop selected. This way I was able to get my activities running. Earlier, I had cloned the HEAD of each the repositories. Perhaps a later change to sugar-datastore was what causing the issue? Thanks for all the help. -Swarup N On Thu, Aug 1, 201

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on running sugar-activity

2019-08-01 Thread Swarup N
on that you may not have been aware of the Port to Python > 3 of the datastore, I've updated the instructions for native install; > > > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/e3206870eca3b99bc5baf43750318b72a481191c > > Let me know if you had built the datastore for Python 2 by

Re: [Sugar-devel] Releasing activities on ASLO

2019-07-23 Thread Swarup N
I have compiled the list of 10 activities to release by this week. Please free to add any activities I may have missed out. Ill continue to update the list. 1) Countries activity 2) Paint-activity 3) Falabracman-activity 4) Speak 5) Log 6) Memorize 7) Lemonade 8) maps-activity 9) infoslicer 10)

[Sugar-devel] Unable to "git clone" on Fedora 18

2019-07-20 Thread Swarup N
Hello, I was trying to setup Sugar v0.114 via native method on Fedora 18. I installed git and ran *sudo yum update.* When I try to clone sugar from https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-datastore, I get the following error. error: peer reports incompatible or unsupported protocol version. while

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unable to "git clone" on Fedora 18

2019-07-20 Thread Swarup N
nd > contents to the Fedora 18 system, > > - exporting your clones over NFS and mounting them on the Fedora 18 system, > > - building a more recent OpenSSL for Fedora 18. > > Have fun! > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:47:16AM +0530, Swarup N wrote: > > Hello, > > &g

[Sugar-devel] Releasing activities on ASLO

2019-07-22 Thread Swarup N
Hello, I wish to release activities on ASLO. This is in part of work for GSoC 2019. I have been testing activities on Fedora 18, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 16.04 (not yet, but I plan to start). Are there any other platforms I need to test on? Are there any release notes I need to include? Is there

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unable to connect to IRC

2019-07-22 Thread Swarup N
Same. I'm having the same trouble. On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:05 PM Rahul Bothra wrote: > G'day, > > I'm not getting a 502 on trying to connect to any channels via > https://webchat.freenode.net. > What client is everyone else using? > > Thanks > Rahul Bothra >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Releasing activities on ASLO

2019-07-22 Thread Swarup N
v0.112 On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:15 PM Rahul Bothra wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 7:59 PM Swarup N wrote: > > I have been testing activities on Fedora 18, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu > 16.04 (not yet, but I plan to start). > > Which version of Sugar Toolkit ? > &

[Sugar-devel] Unable to start collaboration on Ubuntu 18.04 VM

2019-06-30 Thread Swarup N
Hello, I am currently running Sugar v0.114 on Ubuntu 18.04 VM (using Virtual Box). I cloned a new instance of the VM for the purpose of testing collaboration. Through "My Settings", I changed the buddy name as well. I am able click on the "Make friend" option on both the VM's, without any