Re: [Sugar-devel] programming on thin ice

2009-01-31 Thread forster
What I am concerned about is making the system vulnerable by letting arbitrary functions to execute within TA. I can imagine that Rainbow would be of some protection here, but are there other things I can do to restrict, say to the math module, the functions available. Would TA make the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-05-18 Thread forster
Since upgrading to a paraguay build of 0.84, the behaviour of the capacitive pad seems to have changed. Rather than infrequent long periods of failure where I needed to lick my finger or plug in a mouse, it seems to have shorter periods more frequently of raised sensitivity, as if the pad is

Re: [Sugar-devel] New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 125 - control panel

2010-05-21 Thread forster
On your OS140py, some icons are half outside the panel. I did miss the scrollbar for quite a long time. Tony [cc += sugar-devel@, timclicks] El Fri, 21-05-2010 a las 04:13 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis escribió: This probably belongs to SugarLabs Devel but maybe the control panel layout

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [IAEP] Really cool developments with SoaS v3

2010-05-28 Thread forster
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:31:18AM -0400, Dave Bauer wrote: I am thinking of a web-based form that would allow deployments to customize their own SoaS spin. This would be good for the Australian deployment who have asked how they could get a soas which is an exact match of an xo build so

Re: [Sugar-devel] More Sugar 0.88 bugs to work on

2010-05-28 Thread forster
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:17:11AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On the plane to Miami, I've reorganized some of the reports sent by various testers: === Bugs reported against os240 === [ ] Alt-1 does not capture a screenshot alt 1 also works for me, os240py xo-1

Re: [Sugar-devel] More Sugar 0.88 bugs to work on

2010-05-28 Thread forster
[ ] Selecting pictures from the journal in Memorize kills the application (journal error?) Andres, this might be a regression introduced by your patch series. I could not reproduce this on os240py or sugar-jhbuild with Memorize 34. could not reproduce either, os240py xo-1

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

2010-05-28 Thread forster
bugs os240py Activities sometimes launch and stay in a window (seen with paint and turtle blocks) but not happening today more frequently the window appears only for a fraction of a second at launch (with scratch and abacus the window is visible for half a second or so) and Pippy always

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

2010-05-28 Thread forster
os240py Measure sometimes locks up on recording a waveform, quitting from frame then brings up metacity dialog activity is not responding Dont think there was any error log. more on delayed or absent pulsing start icon and activities starting in window: i suspect the two may be related, on

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

2010-05-29 Thread forster
os240py font in Write is small and text does not fill the screen width ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] tuchpad revelde

2010-06-03 Thread forster
Kevin I hope I understand you correctly. There is a patch which has been applied to later builds. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes I know it is in the os140py build and later. The touchpad is monitored and if it gives bad data it is automatically recalibrated. The result is

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

2010-06-07 Thread forster
OS 240py XO-1 Though I cannot see any way to create tabs in browse, sometimes clicking links in frames creates tabs which behave erratically eg zero width tab http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/e/ec/Screenshot_of_Browse_0s240py_.png Tony ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error in running Physics activity And how read .pdf in Read Activity

2010-06-10 Thread forster
Hi Sorry cant help with error log but: space. But when I copied the same PDF file in my .sugar/default/datastore folder. I am not able to browse for a PDF. simply copying to datastore will probably not work, journal bundles include mime type which control what Activities will open the file

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

2010-06-12 Thread forster
Bernie 72 dpi icons looked good to me Maybe the logic of big icons was not eyesight but touchpad control? Though the target audience of the XO builds is still children 6-12, it doesnt have to restrict the audience of other Sugar builds. Sugarlabs can have a wider mission than OLPC. There

Re: [Sugar-devel] Revised hypothetical material for sugar-0.90

2010-06-12 Thread forster
Thanks Michael I am interested in what each of these changes means for the user experience. Is it possible to add a link to each of the listed changes so I (and maybe others) can read up a bit on them? Should this list be on the wiki? Maybe it is but I cant find it. Like

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11-0.88 Alpha2 (os258py)

2010-06-14 Thread forster
Bernie * Disabled the hot corners for the frame, as requested by participants of the OLPC Realness Summit. I'm not convinced this is really a gain, but let's first see how many people ask to revert this change (tch, bernie) good news is that this can be easily reverted with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Displaying the current status of system resources (such as memory, cpu)

2010-06-15 Thread forster
Furthermore, what all system parameters should be made available through such a means (such as free memory, and cpu load)? Suggestions and opinions welcome! Time and date would be good. I am not sure how important memory and cpu are to the average user but there's plenty of room in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [laptop.org #63512] OX on the Internet [Dan Healy]

2010-06-15 Thread forster
Is there an online source for the workings of the OX? �I would be gladbr to gobr there and check that out.br Hi You can view the source at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Source_Code you might read http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] GNOME and protecting Sugar --

2010-06-15 Thread forster
Rather than preventing breakage at all costs, which is rather hard, we could spend some time to improve our backup/restore procedures to minimize the chance of user data loss. I like the idea of backup/restore It is more consistent with the ideals in Walter's

Re: [Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

2010-08-18 Thread forster
Hi I was playing with OS373pyg and managed to disable the touchpad. Fortunately I was able to recover by pressing the power button. I was expecting to get a dialogue or something. My thinking is that its too easy to switch modes and that there should be some warning. There is no key press

Re: [Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

2010-08-18 Thread forster
While you cursor is over the button, you can just click to revert. Thanks I missed that, did the cursor jump or was I being stupid? Either way it shows that the unsuspecting user can get confused Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

[Sugar-devel] journal sort options

2010-08-18 Thread forster
with os373pyg if i sort the journal by creation date, all entries (except tamyblock.py) show a creation date 41 years 8 months ago. Is this right? If so its not very useful. tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] journal sort options

2010-08-18 Thread forster
That's a zero in a ctime property (it counts since the Unix epoch). Do new entries display correct ctimes? It may be that a reindex didn't trigger on upgrade. depends on what you call a new entry, saved activities are all 41 years, but saved photos, clipboard items and tamyblock.py(saved

Re: [Sugar-devel] journal sort options

2010-08-18 Thread forster
By new entries I mean journal entries that were created after you upgraded to a build with the journal sorting feature. if i save a write document etc its 41 years old the exceptions are clipboard items, photos and tamyblock.py ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] view source

2010-08-30 Thread forster
As well as Browse, see Turtle Blocks, which gives alternate views of source ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Etoys 4.1

2010-08-31 Thread forster
Sugar's autosave can be a problem in other Activities too. Create a program in Pippy, then look at one of the examples. All your work will be overwritten. There is nothing you can do to prevent this, not even a panic powerdown. I have viewed a favourite holiday photo in Browse, then used that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Automatic saving (was: Re: [DESIGN] Etoys 4.1)

2010-09-01 Thread forster
Create a program in Pippy, then look at one of the examples. All your work will be overwritten. That's a Critical bug, please file a ticket at https://bugs.sugarlabs.org (with severity set to Critical). done Ticket #2271 ___ Sugar-devel mailing

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

2010-09-17 Thread forster
Soren Issues are What modifications are students likely to do What modifications are possible for a student to do What additional benefits are there to students from a FOSS project. It is possible for a student to submit a bug report to bugs.sugarlabs.org, they can even submit their own patch

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

2010-09-20 Thread forster
*Tony* - *Having a FOSS culture means that lots of smaller design decisions are made which empower the learner* Soren I find it a bit strange being asked to explain FOSS culture. I run Windows on my computer and see myself as a little bit of an outsider. It is, I guess, difficult to define

Re: [Sugar-devel] Content bundles

2010-09-28 Thread forster
Thanks S Page That was very helpful I have logged it as bug #2388 Tony On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:44 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I have created a Pippy program to map sea surface temperature. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tonyforster#Sea_Surface_Temperature_Mapping

[Sugar-devel] Testing 0.90 on an XO

2010-10-04 Thread forster
Please use these builds only for reporting back 0.90 issues. There are surely issues that are due to integration issues. Leave them for now. How do I tell what an integration issue is? Do you only want bugs on new features and not regressions? Tony

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

2010-10-08 Thread forster
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 give them answers. I like the idea. It encourages users

Re: [Sugar-devel] annotation support in abiword (was Fwd: uwog - r29358 - in abiword/trunk: . plugins/collab/backends/service/xp plugins/collab/core/packet/xp plugins/collab/core/plugin/xp plugins/col

2010-10-11 Thread forster
** Ideally we should try harder to better layer complexity in the Write, Calculate, et al UIs so that you need to drill down to the more complex features while the common/novice features are exposed early at the top level — but it seams there's only so far you can take this (Write and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Command - ruins the JOURNAL

2010-10-11 Thread forster
Tested on 0.84, the journal is not ruined. Tested on 0.90 the journal is not ruined ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] SL Bug #2063

2010-10-13 Thread forster
Hi Sorry if I do not fully understand this. The proposal is that an ErrorAlert will be created which must be dismissed by its OK button. Is there any possibility that a large number of errors can be created, each needing to be manually dismissed? We can improve the helpfulness of this

[Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-11-30 Thread forster
Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker? Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-01 Thread forster
Thanks Gary quick and dirty is good I will try it Tony Hi Tony, On 1 Dec 2010, at 07:41, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker?

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread forster
Interesting...can you elaborate? (crystal radio was a childhood obsession of mine...) Sameer see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors#The_XO_as_an_audio_amplifier I was able to build a crystal radio from XO, wire, cardboard, plastic sheet and foil

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read-88

2011-02-18 Thread forster
I went to delete Read 88 to try to restore Read 87 and found that erase has been disabled. An unfortunate side effect of protected activities is that you cant downgrade the version The fix is to go to Gnome and delete the relevant directory in /home/olpcActivities Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread forster
Chat also has text to speech it might be tapping into some common library? Tony The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken. I'm personally not aware of a general purpose text to speech function for the rest

Re: [Sugar-devel] Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread forster
Thank Mikus. Thats fantastic. Turtle Art now has text to speech http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2011/02/turtle-art-text-to-speech.html Tony Haven't sugarized espeak, but can run it from the command line: espeak hello --stdout | aplay mikus

[Sugar-devel] off topic [Release] Turtle Blocks V106

2011-02-27 Thread forster
The release notes describe V106 as the 'Birthday' release. Happy birthdays, Walter and Raul Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

2011-03-04 Thread forster
Turtle Art Arduino, at least when I last ran it, requires Firmata software in the Arduino. So the Arduino is acting as a dumb I/O expansion board and is not being programmed as an autonomous robot. The user is programming in TurtleArt. I used the Arduino Duemilanove but I don't think the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion about feature in ''sin-dientes'' activity

2011-03-08 Thread forster
Hi I think it is a good idea if students can also create lists, its another way to learn literacy. You are presumably concerned that students will 'cheat' by a)looking in the word list b)substitute an easier word list The solutions might be a)allow teachers and students to create encrypted

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Global create-new/modify icon

2011-03-11 Thread forster
Hi Maybe there are two concepts and two icons. One is 'create a new document' and the other 'expose the inner workings'. A more extreme example, in the Sliderule Activity, you can create custom sliderules with fragments of Python code. Thats inner workings. Is a new Memorise game more like a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [OLPC-AU] Recording screencasts

2011-03-15 Thread forster
Quoting Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au: Is there a good way to record screencasts of a Sugar session on an XO? The best I can find is this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Screencast I wrote most of that page. Screencast was buggy but I could make it work, Sugar or

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing home page in Browse

2011-03-15 Thread forster
Using Browse 108.4, as distributed with OLPC OS 10.1.3, how can I change the home page? I want the home page button to go to somewhere else. this might work: webactivity.py (3 / 1) 357 357 if os.path.isfile(_LIBRARY_PATH): 358 358

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

2011-03-16 Thread forster
copied to sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Tony: Here in Uruguay (as you probably already know) the �Buti� Project works in XO robotics through Arduino. This is certainly the most realistic option. I liked the 'PICAXE', which I did not know!. When I bought the LM567 also

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

2011-03-17 Thread forster
Kevin Thats good! Please document somewhere all the steps you took. We should bring all the robotics/sensor stuff together somewhere. (I saw there was free Linux software for the Picaxe too). Deployments can then choose what I/O hardware suits them. Tony I have a Ti Launchpad (a $4.30 USD

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Infra-red photography with the XO camera

2011-03-18 Thread forster
Anish If someone can get the night mode on the camera to work, it might turn out to be an interesting experiment ;-) I was able to alter the camera controls, crank up the gain and get to the noise limit but may not have enabled a specific 'night mode' http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2651

Re: [Sugar-devel] Remote display

2011-03-19 Thread forster
Sridhar Just thought of another option Turtle Art can broadcast a slideshow to other laptops in a shared session Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] An Activity in /usr/share/sugar/activity must be erased in root terminal before a ( lower version .xo) in sugar-journal will run/ -Is this a feature?

2011-03-19 Thread forster
Am I correct that removing the installed activity makes this happen? It seems to. Some activities (eg turtleart) are protected and cannot easily be removed to allow a downgrade. In this case switch to Gnome chmod 777 Activities in file browser show hidden files remove Activity's

[Sugar-devel] Potential data loss problem in collaboration

2011-06-20 Thread forster
Sridhar This problem also happens in sugar 0.88 373pyg Tony We have found a problem that could lead to data loss in the field. General summary: A shares an activity B connects to A's shared instance Collaborative work is done by A and B A closes the activity B continues to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Software Freedom Day 17 September 2011

2011-08-03 Thread forster
Hi Sugar and olpc world What are people doing to celebrate Software Freedom Day this year? We are having an event in our city (Auckland, NZ) and are planning to show the XOs and if I can get some USBs then give out Sugar on a Stick. I am hoping to find a good printer to get some posters

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Fw: Re: #3013 UNSP: toolbar error

2011-08-04 Thread forster
Do you know what Sugar version is using Tony? Gonzalo os868au Sugar 0.84.31 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Fw: Re: #3013 UNSP: toolbar error

2011-08-05 Thread forster
I could use a pointer to the install for the version having the issue. I can't find 868au now but 869au is at http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/olpc-au/XO/F11/10.1.3/ Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Sugar Commander for review, creates Journal entry

2011-08-06 Thread forster
I have a new version of Sugar Commander which leaves a Journal entry behind. Tested OK on 0.84.31 0.88 and 0.92 I think the Journal entry is useful The scrollbar for description also scrolls title and tags, given that the description will get longer and longer, the title and tags will scroll

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Sugar Commander for review, creates Journal entry

2011-08-07 Thread forster
I updated Sugar Commander this morning. You can find the new version at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/SugarCommander-8.xo I put the Description entry in the Journal entry file and give the entry a MIME of text/plain. Thanks James Tested OK on 0.84, 0.88 and 0.92 I think that being

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Sugar Commander for review, creates Journal entry

2011-08-07 Thread forster
PS It would be fun if you could export the Journal as a text file. The Journal entry IS a text file. Sorry I should have explained myself better Not the journal entry, the journal itself, the whole journal then you could do an analysis of what you did when accross all Activities Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Tabs in Browse

2011-08-17 Thread forster
the close icon is not sugarized. The coloring of the tabs is not in a Sugar style and the text does not elipsize - hence the tabs can have different sizes (see Firefox for an example here). Yes. Another problem is that sometimes pages have no title. The tab is very small then and very

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Open link in a new tab

2011-09-05 Thread forster
- which should be the wording of the option Firefox has ('Open Link in New Tab')? or just 'Open in New Tab' - which icon should the option have (maybe a '+', maybe the Browse icon with a +...)? the suggestion of 'right arrow +' sounded good - which order should the items have? The

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Analyze]: what is translatable in ''Buddy %(path)s. ...''

2011-09-17 Thread forster
Hi The full context for [1] is self.ps_watcher.log('Calling Buddy %s.GetProperties()', object_path) in general, everything within the quote marks except %s is translatable but this appears to be some kind of programming diagnostic message and the universal language of programming is English

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Analyze]: what is translatable in ''Buddy %(path)s. ...''

2011-09-17 Thread forster
Looking into it further I have looked at the Analyze output and the diagnostic print out had the text from [1] preceded by a line GetBuddies() returned dbus where GetBuddies() is a procedure name in the program which is invariant in different languages On that basis, it makes more sense

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Analyze]: what is translatable in ''Buddy %(path)s. ...''

2011-09-17 Thread forster
maybe translate none of the strings that appear in the log window just translate table headings where it makes sense in the context of a French speaking programmer? Hi Chris, Gary, Tony Le dimanche 18 septembre 2011 à 09:17 +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au a écrit : Hi The full

[Sugar-devel] Release Telescope-11

2011-10-17 Thread forster
Anish Telescope 11 fails to start on XO-1.75 OS881 Tony Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/sugar-activity, line 21, in module main.main() File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py, line 158, in main create_activity_instance(activity_constructor,

[Sugar-devel] Adding git to Sugar platform?

2011-10-21 Thread forster
(added IAEP to the distribution because this is more about the education than the tech) simon wrote: Ok, the reason why I brought this up is that git is one of our main tools for development and if we ever want kids to start developing... The idea that including git has educational

Re: [Sugar-devel] installing a font?

2011-10-30 Thread forster
On 27 October 2011 08:43, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: Is there a way for an xo bundle to install a font to the system (for cairo to use)? Maybe you could include a script that copies the fonts to ~/.fonts ? Then a potential problem is that when you uninstall the Activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] installing a font?

2011-10-30 Thread forster
On 31 October 2011 13:13, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: On 27 October 2011 08:43, Erik Blankinship er...@mediamods.com wrote: Is there a way for an xo bundle to install a font to the system (for cairo to use)? Maybe you could include a script that copies the fonts to ~/.fonts ?

Re: [Sugar-devel] TA cairo conversion

2011-11-11 Thread forster
(2) Should I add my Physics toolbar plugin to the release or leave it as a separate install... If you haven't tried it, it is really fun. But perhaps a distraction? I can confirm that it is really fun. It means that you can create machines with a precision that is not possible in Physics.

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar theme?

2011-11-16 Thread forster
Does this help? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines Tony Is Sugar themed in this way? http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity (understanding that mutter will make this obsolete, what I am trying to figure out is...) Where is the equivalent description of the look and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release ClassRoomBroadcast-1

2011-11-20 Thread forster
Neither of these Activities have an ASLO link to a wiki page It looks like both require extra software to be installed and this is beyond the skills of the average teacher without guidance A wiki page describing the steps to get these Activities working would be good, Being able to display

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release ClassRoomBroadcast-1

2011-11-21 Thread forster
out of curiosity: What is the advantage of using this activity over VNCLauncher (http://activities.sugarlabs.org/de/sugar/addon/4311)? Out of curiosity, i tried VNCLauncher on OS880 Firstly, I was able to install the client - TigerVNC (though you need root to do it) and run it sudo yum

[Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread forster
The shift from colour to monochrome is noticable and would be annoying if it happened a lot, for example as clouds pass, trees and people move. If the hysterisis, the difference between cutin and cutout brightness is large, the change in mode will happen a lot less frequently and not be

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-22 Thread forster
Thanks Paul The logic appears to be buggy, see #11487: XO-1.75 OS12 backlight is off when you come back inside As it stands, neither the monochrome nor colour modes are OK in full sunlight. The colour mode causes a significant loss of resolution for reading small black text and even more

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-23 Thread forster
fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Thanks Paul thanks for testing! The logic appears to be buggy, see #11487: XO-1.75 OS12 backlight is off when you come back inside okay, more testing is needed. as you noted, it's quite hard to tell when it's on and off. i'll see if i can

[Sugar-devel] wiki.sugarlabs has crashed

2011-11-25 Thread forster
Can somebody please restart the server wiki.sugarlabs.org (I suspect I crashed it, Browse fails to download pages if you dont wave the mouse around, that resulted me leaving it with a file rename form open for 15 minutes and I suspect something timed out)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release ClassRoomBroadcast-2

2011-11-25 Thread forster
*Documentation TBD in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/ClassroomBroadcast I have edited this documentation Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarized Sound Speed

2012-01-13 Thread forster
Yes As predicted, Measure's stereo input on the XO-1.5 worked and the biggest problem was the triggering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3vKVTW1LQA Tony On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Dominik Granada dgran...@frks.pl wrote: Hi, did anyone try to repeat Ch. Stoll sound wave measurement

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mobile dongles - XO-1 with release 11.3.0

2012-03-25 Thread forster
David This message was sent with a gsm dongle on an xo-1 modem:Huawei E160E carrier:Locked to Dodo (an Optus reseller) XO-1 OS31 development which is same as os884 signed in my settings, enter username, password, leave *99# unaltered, dodolns1, blank, blank turn off power management,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread forster
Thanks I have noticed another issue with the mobile dongle. OS31, XO-1.75 Press the power button once and wait for sleep. The dongle remains powered on (which is a good or bad thing depending on your point of view), then press the power button to wake the laptop, the dongle is briefly turned

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-27 Thread forster
Paul Tried this with a XO-1.75 and a XO-1.5 both running OS31 Tried a Huawei mobile dongle, a memory stick and a mouse The only case where a USB device remains powered during sleep is the mobile dongle on the 1.75 Tony fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Thanks I have noticed another

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-28 Thread forster
Paul Keeping the dongle powered also happens with automatic power management on the 1.75 (ie 15 seconds with no input). Same problem though, keyboard or trackpad input to wake up powers down the dongle. It takes 35 seconds for the dongle to appear in the frame, then user input is required,

[Sugar-devel] Pilas Activity - interesting game engine

2012-04-11 Thread forster
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Pilas is interesting, I have translated the English documentation I can only get it to execute in immediate mode, I expect you can run it from Pippy or Terminal/python but I get import errors when I try Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] os-9 testing

2012-05-13 Thread forster
Tested the os9 build for a few basic tests, reports below: ... ? Pippy ? warnings in the terminal console before any example related text appears (annoying) ... See http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3492 Pippy -import pippy produces warnings Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browser Bug

2012-05-22 Thread forster
Flavio I also get 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_invoker' on the XO-1.75, Browse on Webkit See Ticket #3503 comment 5 I don't know if the disable JIT fix will be relevant to this. Tony /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browser Bug

2012-05-23 Thread forster
Thanks I will look at the error log more carefully when crashing Its been one of the last things in the log when crashing and I assumed it was the cause Tony 2012/5/23 fors...@ozonline.com.au: Flavio I also get 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_invoker' on the XO-1.75, Browse on

[Sugar-devel] Lists in foreign languages (was Port Gtk 3 (Chat.activity))

2012-05-23 Thread forster
Another thing that I'd like to mention is the language. This list is in English, and it would be good if we can respect that. I wouldn't like to start reading emails in German or Chineese (I don't have any problem with those languages, but I don't understand a word :P ) Thanks for raising

Re: [Sugar-devel] Using the touchscreen

2012-10-27 Thread forster
Hi I have an Activity which has: self.textview = gtk.TextView() self.textview.connect(key_press_event, self.keypress_cb) I am only getting key_press_event from the OSK from enter and backspace I only open the OSK when clicking in the textview if I have first clicked on

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SOLVED] Spellchecking with Write on Sugar Quandong

2012-10-31 Thread forster
Added a link from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Write Tony On 31/10/2012 13:04, Walter Bender wrote: Could you please put these instructions in the wiki? It would be useful beyond sugar-devel.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multi-touch test activity

2012-11-04 Thread forster
See also http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12161 Tony Hi folks, I made a simple Sugar activity to test the XO-4's multi-touch screen: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4611/ It works fine most of the time. Sometimes the touch contact ends unexpectedly without lifting

Re: [Sugar-devel] [TRANSIENT ISSUE] 3G-Modem not being recognised

2012-11-20 Thread forster
Ajay You do not say which OS you are using or whether its Sugar or Gnome desktop. For most of 13.1.0 the modem dongle has not been appearing in the Sugar frame. It was fixed at OS11 I think but I have not tested it a lot to see if its always there in the frame. Tony I have heard from other

Re: [Sugar-devel] [TRANSIENT ISSUE] 3G-Modem not being recognised

2012-11-22 Thread forster
I repeated these tests XO-1.75 and XO-4 OS14 Huawei E160E modem Imation 8GB memory stick I was unable to replicate the fault described by Ajay, the modem appeared in the frame, both plugged in after boot and before boot but for both laptops In the first test, memory stick and modem plugged in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [TRANSIENT ISSUE] 3G-Modem not being recognised

2012-11-23 Thread forster
USB flash drive On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 06:08:26PM +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I repeated these tests Thanks! XO-1.75 and XO-4 OS14 Huawei E160E modem Imation 8GB memory stick Is this actually a Memory Stick or do you mean a USB flash drive?

Re: [Sugar-devel] [TRANSIENT ISSUE] 3G-Modem not being recognised

2012-11-23 Thread forster
Hi James, I agree that the frame icon for the modem may not be present if power managament was enabled, The frame does work with the Power Management option unchecked. What does the frame icon for the modem mean? see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gsm_share_state0.png which shows

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to detect touch of ebook mode?

2012-12-05 Thread forster
Hi! I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I woud like to know how to catch touch events or e-book mode programmatically? ebook: /dev/input/event3 (XO-1.75) event4 (XO-1.0 - 1.5) from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art#Device_I.2FO Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PROPOSAL] Inform the user when an activity is being installed and more

2013-01-12 Thread forster
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez a...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi everybody, Now, if we download or copy a .xo to the journal, it is installed automatically and doesn't informs to the user that the activity is being installed. Is this a change in 13.1.0? I

Re: [Sugar-devel] About to teach Python programming

2013-01-12 Thread forster
Hi As a beginner, I found creating a Sugar Activity difficult. More difficult than creating a program to run from Terminal or Pippy. You might get better value using Pygame and writing something that can run from Pippy. The goal could be to create more Pippy built in samples. If you are going

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Oopsy-1

2013-01-20 Thread forster
Kartik Thanks for creating this Sugar Activity, well done. Some comments, the users may be very inexperienced programmers so anything that helps them is worthwhile. The list of example programs on the left require a double click to load, Sugar does not generally have double clicks so this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Oopsy-1

2013-01-21 Thread forster
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 05:17:02PM +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Is there any way for them to install gcc? I've had a quick look at gcc 4.7.2 sources and they appear to support the usual --prefix method of configuring, so that they might be installed in the directories of a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Oopsy-1

2013-01-21 Thread forster
Sure Tony, Thanks for your valuable comments. I will look into the changes. Also, I will look for method that takes the children through steps to install gcc if its not there already. Thanks, A couple more ideas, it might be better to compile with the -lm switch so you can use math functions

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PROPOSAL] Inform the user when an activity is being installed and more

2013-01-21 Thread forster
I am for option 1. Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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