Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Where should we put our mixture of bugs, feature requests and misunderstandings as we develop curriculum

2009-09-30 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi Caroline, Apologies for not introducing myself to the lists before my first post, but workflow of issues is something that sparked a neuron or two! 2009/10/1 Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com As I work with educators to create and write up curriculum we will discover problems. They

[Sugar-devel] Talk at New Zealand PyCon : Support from dev team needed

2009-10-04 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, I've been asked by the organisers of the Kiwi PyCon 2009http://nz.pycon.org to give a 45m interactive presentation. There will be about 150 Pythonistas there. Am pretty intimidated, because I'm sure I'll be receiving far more technical questions than I will be able to answer. I guess I

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] 2009 Free Software Awards

2009-10-08 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/8 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.org fyi ..Sugar or it's representative should be nominated :). http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall Hi all, Apologies for my lack of knowledge. Does Sugar contain any non-free components?

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Karma] Re: Conozco Uruguay in karma

2009-10-11 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/12 Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com 2009/10/10 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:11 -0200, Gabriel Eirea wrote: Gabriel, do you think we could use Inkscape to accomplish this? Yes, I think Inkscape is the right tool. I believe you can also take the bitmap and

[Sugar-devel] Live CD with network / HDD storage - possible?

2009-10-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, I came across this note at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd, can someone please fill me in on the details of how to achieve this? Much appreciated: It is also possible to use this type of Live CD to create a virtual Sugar lab for a school, where a traditional computer lab's computers are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-17 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/17 Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native

[Sugar-devel] friendview.py

2009-10-17 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, Have just cloned http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline and have encountered a fixme in /sugar/src/jarabe/desktop/friendview.py: def _buddy_activity_changed_cb(self, buddy, ps_activity=None): if not ps_activity: self._remove_activity_icon()

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design mockup of a different activity launcher

2009-10-17 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/18 Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvDdN1t-0yE I was in the code and have wanted to try this for awhile! If anyone else thinks it would be better than the pulsing icon, I'll clean up and post the patch to a Feature on the wiki. -1 to removing the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design mockup of a different activity launcher

2009-10-17 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/18 Avi fiendi...@gmail.com wrote: Wade wrote: Rationale: 1) Less flashy 2) Clock theme represents time 3) Ability to count how many seconds the launch takes 4) Close button (instead of timeout) when there is an error 5) Possibly less startup overhead; needs to be

[Sugar-devel] Testing Summary - 14 Nov 09

2009-11-21 Thread Tim McNamara
2 and Food Force II. Recommendation: eliminate the unnecessary one. General issues with stability. The game would crash would without warning, and often fail to start. XO-1 rarely reaches the menu, XO-1.5 usually gets there. We found the main menu lacks sufficient contrast. Tim McNamara http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Roadmap to 0.88 --- Proposal

2009-11-24 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/11/25 Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de On 11/20/2009 06:43 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Great job!! -walter Any more thoughts? Pros and Cons? Things I have overseen? Wishes? Simon, et al This may be a SoaS issue, but I will press on nevertheless. I would like Fedora man pages

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSM/CDMA Modems support (part II)

2009-11-25 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/11/26 Martin Abente mabe...@paraguayeduca.org Hello again everyone! As I mentioned in my last email to de...@lists.laptop.org, there is a real need for a GSM/CDMA usb modem support in our region since thats the most common/available service in rural locations. Have you looked at the

[Sugar-devel] Maze file structure different than others

2009-11-29 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, I am downloading the svg icons from http://git.sugarlabs.org/. I've noticed a minor issue, Maze has a different file structures from other activities. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/maze/repos/mainline/trees/master/Maze.activity/activity vs

[Sugar-devel] Enhancement suggestion - Maze

2009-11-29 Thread Tim McNamara
Something I would like feedback on. After several sessions playing Maze with 6 year olds, I've noticed that it's sometimes very hard to distinguish the difference between opponents if they have the same core colour. E.g. blue w/ light blue stroke is hard to distinguish from blue w/ dark blue

[Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.86 Favourites View behaviour - Browse

2009-12-06 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, Am running Sugar 0.86.3. In general, I like how Sugar now opens the most recent item from the Journal, rather than starting a brand new file. However, I think with Browse - it's still useful for this to default to the homepage. Is there an easy way to make this happen? Do other people

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.86 Favourites View behaviour - Browse

2009-12-07 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/12/7 Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de On 12/06/2009 10:28 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: Hi all, Am running Sugar 0.86.3. In general, I like how Sugar now opens the most recent item from the Journal, rather than starting a brand new file. However, I think with Browse - it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Tim McNamara
2010/1/13 Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net It would like to make most of these conversations available to the rest of the community, but I don't have the time to log and publish them myself. +1 for a log bot Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel? jeff elkner

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Control Panel Font configuration

2010-01-30 Thread Tim McNamara
with typeface licencing GPL. Here's a link: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scrIpts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=Andika Tim McNamara Identi.ca / Twitter: @timClicks ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] [DESIGN] Enhanced Color Selector

2010-02-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On 2 February 2010 22:45, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: In the design meeting and the ml-thread the '+' layout and the rows of XOs were favored. Eben brought as well the 'static rows with separated fill/stroke' on the table. Let's try to find an agreement. The proposal looks

Re: [Sugar-devel] screen blurring using firefox 3.5 and 3.6

2010-02-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 January 2010 17:15, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: I have tested firefox 3.5 and 3.6 on the XO with Sugar version sugar-0.81.7-1. I see significant blurring whenever a png image is added for manipulated I also had this issue w/ os10 for 0.84?

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On 13 February 2010 09:15, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: If nobody complains by the end of this weekend, I'll just upload the images, put a GPLv2+ license in the archive and make a tarball, as this is what they've been listed under in Strawberry and Blueberry, too. --Sebastian

Re: [Sugar-devel] FileShare Activity Feedback and Review Request

2010-02-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Justin, Alastair, Grant I had a great time with this app this morning. Seemed to work great. From a UI perspective, I found myself wanting to click files to download pending ones. This may be a hangup from too much web experience. Having to click on the icon at the top took a little bit of

[Sugar-devel] Yum install sugar-activity-record?

2010-02-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 February 2010 13:28, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: I am unable to test my activities (Our Music, Our Music MC) on recent daily builds because Browse doesn't work, and other USB drives are not recognized. (The neighborhood view shows nothing except me.) These are my only ready

Re: [Sugar-devel] Yum install sugar-activity-record?

2010-02-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 February 2010 14:42, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:21:02PM +1300, Tim McNamara wrote: This may be somewhat naive, but would it possible to manipulate yum to allow yum install sugar-activity-name? I guess it would mean packaging the contents of each

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Application In

2010-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
back a few times over the course of the next few weeks. Please feel to contact me off the list at paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz if you have any questions. Very best regards, Tim McNamara @timClicks ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Write - H1 - H4 other minor things

2010-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, A few thoughts on the version of Write which I cloned today. *H1 ... H4* Do we know how these term has been received by the education sector? I wonder if we could change the string literals to something like Major heading Subheading Minor heading. I haven't got too much experience with

[Sugar-devel] Recommendation - sugar-love Trac Report

2010-03-16 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, Small recommendation. Create a Trac report that is clickable from the front of http://dev.sugarlabs.org that lists orphaned tickets identified by sugar-love. This will make it very easy for new contributors to find something that they can get involved with. Tim.

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Flyer - please review

2010-03-16 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, If you have 30 seconds free, please review http://issuu.com/timclicks/docs/sugarlabs_gsoc_2010. I've gone for simplicity over . My main consideration was tying together growth children's learning. I think you'll smile when you see the result. If people are relatively happy with it, we

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Accepted as GSoC 2010 Organisation

2010-03-18 Thread Tim McNamara
Chris - You must have known something! Sugar Labs is part of the fold. [1] Thanks all for helping me along. Now the real fun starts :) Tim @timClicks [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010 On 13 March 2010 12:11, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Tim,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Gsoc] State of this year's gsoc

2010-04-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On 12 April 2010 15:10, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: Hi all. How is Gsoc going for SugarLabs this year ? Are we having enough mentors ? How is the proposal review going ?. Hi Rafael, thanks for the questions! Here's a short update: Sugar Labs has three

[Sugar-devel] Busy weekend for GSoC - Please review proposals jobs for mentors

2010-04-17 Thread Tim McNamara
more votes to enable projects to be distinguished. Also, I recommend that you nominate yourself as a mentor to project(s) you feel could benefit from your support. This will make the selection process slightly easier. Thanks all, Tim McNamara ___ Sugar

[Sugar-devel] GSoC decisions very close - fantastic proposals - mentors IRC meeting

2010-04-19 Thread Tim McNamara
We have had several outstanding proposals from very talented software developers. Unfortunately, many highly worthwhile projects will miss out. I warmly welcome mentors who have not yet reviewed the proposals to do so. If everyone participates, it will make distinguishing the top contenders

[Sugar-devel] Introduction to this year's GSoC teams

2010-04-27 Thread Tim McNamara
demonstrated that he is up to the task last summer--he could revitalize this important corner of Sugar I wish the teams the best of luck. Congratulations to the sucessful students! I'll be updating the wiki today my time. Please feel to come to me with any questions. Regards, Tim McNamara Sugar

[Sugar-devel] Code Guidelines L10N

2010-05-03 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, Am seeking clarification on coding style, notably the use of trailing white space punctuation. import gettext as _ ... _(Enter your name: ) = Generally used _(Enter your name)+: = Best for translators, slower to run, readability decreases _(Enter your name%s) % (: ,) = Avoids concat,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Fwd: [PATCH] use the spanish verb quitar for unmounting devices]

2010-05-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On 17 May 2010 06:07, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: This was also supposed to be posted on the list: - Mensaje reenviado De: Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org Para: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org Cc: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com,

[Sugar-devel] Speak answering maths questions

2010-05-29 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, *About* This email is asking for feedback on different alternatives of implementing a feedback request. It also goes through a lot of thought processes that have resulted in my preferred suggestion. This is mainly addressed at Sugar devs, but thought Alastair Grant from Wellington this

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread Tim McNamara
to achieve something similar without needing to pay for RHEL, which is probably a bit of an overkill? Best regards, Tim McNamara @timClicks [1] http://news.cnet.com/Long-term-Fedora-Linux-support-ending/2100-7344_3-6146604.html ___ Sugar-devel mailing

[Sugar-devel] Please review code (was Re: Speak answering maths questions)

2010-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi Chris, et al. ref http://pastebin.com/2XNCHGiy I am most of the way there, as you can see from lines 91 - 143. The function is attempting to return something that can be read out loud back to a child if they ask the Speak robot a mathematical question. My biggest question is the best way to

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Calculate/functions.py

2010-06-02 Thread Tim McNamara
Heeres rein...@heeres.eu # +# Copyright 2010 Tim McNamara t...@sugarlabs.org + # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or @@ -14,14

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Calculate/functions.py

2010-06-02 Thread Tim McNamara
James, Thanks for taking the time to review that patch. On 3 June 2010 15:38, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: 5. fixes a transcription error from the XOR Wikipedia article by editing out a symbol that can't be represented in code. This was the only reason why I added the encoding

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Calculate/functions.py

2010-06-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On 3 June 2010 16:00, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:51:46PM +1200, Tim McNamara wrote: Thanks for taking the time to review that patch. But wait, there's more. Tested-by: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org shift_right() also mentions self on the argument

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] [trivial] Free From Malaria

2010-06-18 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi, Wtgn testers have notived that the Free From Malaria Activity [1] currently has gtk test as its activity name in activity.py. Here's a fix :) -Tim === modified file 'activity.py' --- activity.py 2010-06-19 00:07:52 + +++ activity.py 2010-06-19 00:09:04 + @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] fixes sl#2062

2010-07-01 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all ref http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2062 Simple fix, have captured the exception that's raised and have told user to connect to the nework: This commit fixes sl#2062. This bug causes XS registrations to fail silently when the XO is offline. The fix is to catch the TypeError provide an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Add cpu and memory resource indicator to frame

2010-07-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On 2 July 2010 22:03, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.orgwrote: +def create_palette(self): +palette = ResourcePalette(_('System Resources')) Should Resources be lower case instead? (Question to native english speakers) Title Case is often used in headings, but use

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] TurtleArt - escaping HTML entities while exporting to HTML #sl1854

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
This patch attempts to fix http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1854. It assumes that the only place where , , could enter the file in a troublesome manner is when the TurtleArt code is being imported into the content div. Author: Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz Date: Sat Jul 3 19:00:34

[Sugar-devel] Setting Palette delay timing

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, I'm reading http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1169, which talks about the delay of GTK Palettes/drop down menus. I think this is a worthy bug to squash, but I'm not really sure where to start. Given that this has been high/critical priority since 0.86, I'm assuming that it's harder than

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] TurtleArt - SVG text wrapping #sl1856

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi Walter, et all, This patch should go most of the way to fixing the bug. However, I haven't tested it locally it contains a few assumptions about what the SVG files look like that that it's processing. I'm also not 100% sure about the elementtree implementation of ElementTree (am used to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] fixes sl#2062

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On 2 July 2010 20:42, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.orgwrote: TypeError should be catched in jarabe.desktop.schoolserver.register_laptop() and rethrown as a RegisterError. Sascha diff --git a/src/jarabe/desktop/schoolserver.py b/src/jarabe/desktop/schoolserver.py index

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] TurtleArt - SVG text wrapping #sl1856

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On 4 July 2010 05:08, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: Hi Walter, et all, This patch should go most of the way to fixing the bug. However, I haven't tested it locally it contains a few

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove hard-coded School Server URL when XOs register #sl1976

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi there, Ref http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1976 Bevaviour of the software is now independent of the hardware that Sugar is running. All registrations will look for Jabber server settings from /desktop/sugar/collaboration/jabber_server. However, this patch retains the REGISTER_URL as an

[Sugar-devel] Q on tracker cleanup / triage

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi devs, 500+ unclosed bugs causes problems. I feel intimidated overwhelmed by this number. I also find it difficult to find material sift through bug reports, to find areas where I can help (although, at the moment, I'm quite content with sugar-love level problems). However, 500+ bugs isn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] Python help

2010-07-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On 8 July 2010 04:49, ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student) acj3...@rit.edu wrote: I'm writing a python program for sugar and i recently added a line at the top 'from sugar.activity import activity' and now every time i run it i get a glib.GError:Failed to contact configuration server;.(lots of

Re: [Sugar-devel] WikiBrowse from sugar-emulator (ubuntu 10.04) ?

2010-07-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On 12 July 2010 03:23, Bastien bastien.gue...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Thanks Sascha. Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org writes: Excerpts from Bastien's message of Sat Jul 10 16:11:17 + 2010: He installed Sugar on Ubuntu 10.04 with sugar-emulator 0.88 then tried to install

Re: [Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

2010-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On 16 July 2010 10:50, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Under non-sugar environments (e.g. GNOME), myself and Paul are in agreement that in order to change brightness and volume, you should press e.g. Fn+F9 (to decrease brightness). This matches behaviour of normal laptops, including the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On 1 August 2010 12:11, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: so, 3:0 for cubes.. I guess the place where these cubes are produced could be named refinery.sugarlabs.org +1 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Adding committers on gitorious (was: Re: [PATCH] Remove nbsp chars from the html string before parsing)

2010-08-05 Thread Tim McNamara
On 6 August 2010 11:20, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:06:03AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Another option is having some script that adds committers to all sugar core modules in one go, that would be similar to what GNOME does. There are too many core

[Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-07 Thread Tim McNamara
Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? I have spent some time over the last three days getting Sugarbot to run in sugar-jhbuild. After a few code changes, and lots of reading, I have been successful. Some changes that needed to be made from the 0.1 release: - a few syntax

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable (was: Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 1)

2010-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On 9 August 2010 09:09, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: Instructions: 1. Report bugs at http://dev.laptop.org/newticket - if necessary, register first at http://dev.laptop.org/register (as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable

2010-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On 9 August 2010 11:02, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: in general I think it's entirely appropriate to expect that people asking for help do so via the correct channels I believe that asking for help should not be the only supported motivation for contacting developers. Not at all,

[Sugar-devel] Unit integration testing - tools discussion

2010-08-11 Thread Tim McNamara
I would like to start a thread on unit integration testing. I have two main questions: 1) Where should tests be located 2) Which testing framework to use Some options for 1: - every Sugar project decides for itself - root/tests in each project - a meta project that houses tests for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On 12 August 2010 03:17, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.orgwrote: Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Sun Aug 08 02:06:21 +0200 2010: Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? Sure, go ahead! If you need commit rights, please write to systems@ and I'll

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unit integration testing - tools discussion

2010-08-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On 12 August 2010 13:30, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: 2) Which testing framework to use Whatever the test developer and activity developer can agree on. I don't know enough about the options to choose. (p.s. I'm aware of your work on Sugarbot. While this is fantastic, I'm

[Sugar-devel] Upgrade gitorious?

2010-08-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Possibly another task to add to the stack... git.sl.o doens't have a very friendly landing for new contributors page. Directions to core gitorious projects, such as sugar jarabe category:glucose would be good. Further, http://www.gitorious.org seems to be a little prettier than our instance.

[Sugar-devel] List of widgets used in Sugar?

2010-08-15 Thread Tim McNamara
Is there a list of current widgets that are used in Sugar activities? The Activity Team's wiki[1] now links to a page that is labelled as obsolete. *Status* My focus is currently on the widget identification system for Experior [2] (nee Sugarbot). The system enables scripting to take place. The

[Sugar-devel] Python multi-touch lib reaches 0.5

2010-08-16 Thread Tim McNamara
PyMT has native support for multitouch devices on Linux that are supported by the kernel, all Windows 7 multitouch devices, all of Apple’s multitouch accessories and much more. If you know basic python, PyMT is the easiest way to create multitouch applications or to just test your hardware. [1]

Re: [Sugar-devel] #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.

2010-09-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On 16 September 2010 09:24, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: When I was in Samoa at their olpc deployment, I found the kids started lots of activities but no one had told them how to stop an activity. I tried to explain why the XOs were not responsive by saying that the computer was

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar

2010-09-17 Thread Tim McNamara
Søren, You raise some concerns that I have had. Over of time, I have come to slightly different conclusions. On 18 September 2010 01:27, Søren Hougesen soren.houge...@gmail.com wrote: For about a month ago, I asked as a curious outsider, if kids were actually hacking sugar. It is almost

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Text to Speech in other Activities (was Re: FW: [Olpc-uruguay] MiguelEstudia (Version 1))

2010-09-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On 17 September 2010 02:19, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Tim, Do I have documentation? Surely your jest! http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/TextToSpeech This is a chapter of Make Your Own Sugar Activities!, a FLOSS Manual I wrote (with much help from the folks on

Re: [Sugar-devel] wordgroupz ( A vocabulary building app) ported to sugar

2010-09-21 Thread Tim McNamara
On 22 September 2010 16:50, Ratnadeep Debnath rtn...@gmail.com wrote: snip / Sugar bundle for wordgroupz available at http://rtnpro.fedorapeople.org/wordgroupz/Wordgroupz-1.xo Please check if this is satisfactory and feel free to suggest any improvements. I also need an icon for wordgroupz

[Sugar-devel] Priorities for testing

2010-09-24 Thread Tim McNamara
The New Zealand testing groups will be operating in a few hours. If you have any requests for things to be explored, please respond within 5 hours. Thank you Tim ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Weekly test request reminders? (was Re: Priorities for testing)

2010-09-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On 25 September 2010 21:07, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Fri Sep 24 22:37:18 +0200 2010: The New Zealand testing groups will be operating in a few hours. If you have any requests for things to be explored, please respond

[Sugar-devel] Accessing hidden SSIDs

2010-09-26 Thread Tim McNamara
Is it possible to access hidden SSIDs via the Neighbourhood View? Tim ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly test request reminders? (was Re: Priorities for testing)

2010-09-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On 30 September 2010 07:56, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: That would be nice. If you add a [Testing] tag to those mails we could set up a mailing list topic to allow people to opt-out (see the subscription options [1]). If mailman supports sorting a message into multiple topics,

Re: [Sugar-devel] wordgroupz ( A vocabulary building app) ported to sugar

2010-09-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On 30 September 2010 03:45, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: However to be honest, I think the extra dependancies are the real issue just at the moment (I haven't seen it working yet). I guess specific distros could each individually package up and install the needed dependancies

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On 30 September 2010 06:32, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hi, With reference to bug : http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2152 I am trying to replace the ':' character in the username with '_', while the user is entering the Username in About Me. The following has been done by me

[Sugar-devel] [Testing] Submitting test requests - some provisional instructions

2010-09-29 Thread Tim McNamara
I have created a page in the OLPC wiki for submitting test requests[1]. The reason I used wiki.laptop.org rather than wiki.sl.o was because that's where the NZ teams' presences are currently. A wiki page serves as a good place so that people don't need to sign into several services, etc. This

Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal of dotted activity version number

2010-10-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On 5 October 2010 10:25, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I agree with the proposal. -- James Cameron System Test Coordinator One Laptop per Child I tentatively agree. My strong preference is for Activities to rapidly increase their integer numbers, rather than creating a complex

Re: [Sugar-devel] Memory leak in Sugar -- how to dump Py data structures?

2010-10-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On 8 October 2010 03:34, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10386 for details. The sugar-session process in 10.1.2 grows slowly... There's some form of leak somewhere. Maybe we are triggerin a real python leak, maybe we have reference loops. How

[Sugar-devel] Call for test requests

2010-10-08 Thread Tim McNamara
Does anyone have anything specific that they would like looked over this weekend? If so, please add it to NZ's test request page [1]. Ta, Tim. [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_Zealand/Test_Requests ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

[Sugar-devel] Possible copyright infringement in activities.sl.o

2010-10-08 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi all, This morning, I tested juegos_flash-2. It's just a sample of free (no cost) flash games from the Internet. I don't think Sugar Labs is be allowed to distribute them. Apart from these legal concerns, I also have some ethical ones. The package includes a game that teaches users how to mix

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore activity icons

2010-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On 2 October 2010 04:46, Gary C Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Any catch your eye? I think series 1 will work best in small screens, but I think that series 4 is more complete.. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Ask! Please! (Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On 9 October 2010 11:33, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Quoting Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com: I have a partial draft of a textbook on the subject at http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ It encourages XO owners to explore on their own and find out what questions they have before we

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Testing Summary - Wellington, 9 Oct 2010

2010-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
Forwarding to Sugar-devel.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim McNamara mcnamara@gmail.com Date: Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:43 PM Subject: Testing Summary - Wellington, 9 Oct 2010 To: OLPC NZ olpc...@lists.laptop.org Really nice day today! Attendees: - Tim, Alastair, Kristina

Re: [Sugar-devel] SL Bug #2063

2010-10-13 Thread Tim McNamara
On 14 October 2010 08:50, Mukul Gupta mu...@seeta.in wrote: Team, Wish to have your feedback on the design aspect of the ticket 2063 (Sugar should bring up an alert when an unhandled Python exception occurs) - please find the git diff attached below. This is an attempt to display an alert

[Sugar-devel] Mailman's admin and archive interfaces are horrible - suggest GroupServer.org

2010-10-17 Thread Tim McNamara
I'm assuming the infrastructure team are part of this list. I would like to recommend that Sugar Labs considers migrating from mailman to GroupServer as its mailing list system[1]. I've been using GroupServer as a participant for over a year for lots of open government New Zealand activities [1].

Re: [Sugar-devel] wordgroupz ( A vocabulary building app) ported to sugar

2010-10-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On 20 October 2010 22:04, Ratnadeep Debnath rtn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: So, 100% behind the wordgroupz activity name? Just wanted to double check before re-doing the icon again. Since the original name of the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Development Meetings

2010-10-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 October 2010 02:45, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:29:07PM +, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:13:24AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Oct 25,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-26 Thread Tim McNamara
? (Why don't we use Canonical's Launchpad?) Regards, Tim McNamara @timClicks ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-26 Thread Tim McNamara
Please excuse my rash pushing of the 'send' button: On 26 October 2010 23:42, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: *Issue 2*: veto We have a small cadre of experienced and highly able contributors. This means that an expectation of very high-quality will become established

[Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mobylize $100K entry?

2010-11-04 Thread Tim McNamara
I don't know if it's a bit back-to-front, but has anyone considered entering Sugar into Mobylize's $100K developer challenge[1]? I know that Martel is putting money into OLPC, but it may be worthwhile checking the entry criteria. -Tim [1] http://twitter.com/#!/mobylize/status/27066434989

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mobylize $100K entry?

2010-11-04 Thread Tim McNamara
Correction: Marvell, not Martel On 4 November 2010 23:23, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: I don't know if it's a bit back-to-front, but has anyone considered entering Sugar into Mobylize's $100K developer challenge[1]? I know that Martel is putting money into OLPC, but it may

Re: [Sugar-devel] setting svg icon as datastore metadata?

2010-12-03 Thread Tim McNamara
Erik, I don't think it's possible to change an icon for something that is already in the Journal. I can't remember exactly how things work, but I think the following is accurate: Icons are associated with Activities. Mimetypes are associated between a Journal entry and an Activity. The correct

[Sugar-devel] Kiwi PyCon 2011 - August 26/27 - OLPC / Sugar Labs content would be great!

2010-12-13 Thread Tim McNamara
/speakers. So, if anyone has thought about taking a trip to New Zealand - here's a good reason to think about doing so! I'll be posting more details to the community as they emerge but thought I would spark some interest with a quick note. Very best regards Tim McNamara http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] BUG#2544 Adding smiley support to Chat application

2010-12-27 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi Mukesh, Thanks for this. Some questions: - Are you able to provide the license for those .svg files? - The .svg files have many Inkscape-specific elements. Perhaps save them as plain SVG files - it will save some space. Tim @timClicks On 28 December 2010 07:46, Mukesh Gupta

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable

2018-06-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On 9 August 2010 11:02, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > in general I think it's entirely appropriate to expect > > that people asking for help do so via the correct channels > > I believe that "asking for help" should not be the only supported > motivation for contacting developers. > Not at all,