Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] November meeting reminder

2015-11-02 Thread forster
I think 8pm Boston is 1am Tuesday UTC. Tony Where: irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting (chat.sugarlabs.org) When: Monday, 2 November 23:00 UTC (Boston 8PM*) [1] Who: Sugar Oversight Board and Sugar community members What: Discussion about membership and the upcoming election, the new website

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announcing] unstable 0.103.2 release and API, UI and String freeze.

2015-01-20 Thread forster
Hi It depends on whether you are a touch typist. The touch typist will be looking at the screen and will see the autocomplete. The non touch typist willl be looking at the keyboard and will not notice it. Tony I don't think that selecting the text is the right approach. If I am a slow

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO on Fedora 20 (was Re: [GSoC] Porting To Python3)

2014-05-16 Thread forster
And finally a 1.75 image http://bender.sugarlabs.org:3000/images/xo1.75/1/ installed image ok Browse works downloaded and installed terminal and turtle blocks ok default font a bit big Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO on Fedora 20 (was Re: [GSoC] Porting To Python3)

2014-05-16 Thread forster
And finally a 1.75 image http://bender.sugarlabs.org:3000/images/xo1.75/1/ installed image ok Browse works downloaded and installed terminal and turtle blocks ok default font a bit big A few things don't work, presumably just not included in the image: Gnome Write: import error abiword

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] SL #4756

2014-05-02 Thread forster
Hi From a user perspective a notification is in a layer above the Activity canvas so it doesn't seem right to change to the home canvas. At least that's my mental model. Tony I implemented a solution to #4756: Maximum Activities notification doesn't display [1] [2]. My approach was to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Learn to Code-1

2014-04-23 Thread forster
Hola Franco When I click Introduction error: Unable to load page 0.0.0.0:36722/book_data/ Message corrupt Tony Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4740 Sugar Platform: 0.100 - 0.100 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28937/learn_to_code-1.xo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Parental controls (UPDATE)

2014-04-23 Thread forster
Hi You say For this GUI to reach a wider user base, parental controls are therefore needed. Can you please expand on this. Why are these controls needed? In which circumstances would they be enabled? Which releases would be controlled? Historically, Sugar and OLPC have been based on a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.101.4 (unstable)

2014-04-05 Thread forster
Hola! I got a notify_user() to work OK using the Develop Gtk3 template. Looks like the Activity needs to be Gtk3. I have amended the wiki to say Gtk3 required. Gracias Hola Tony! From activities you can send these notifications using: self.notify_user(summary:str, body:str) There is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.101.4 (unstable)

2014-04-04 Thread forster
Thanks How and when are notifications generated? I want to test the new feature - notification system. Tony Hello Everyone, I have created images for all XO models, with the updated sugar packages that were provided by Gonzalo. These images are based on OLPC-AU au1b images. Please

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.101.4 (unstable)

2014-04-04 Thread forster
Thanks So am I right to say that currently Sugar and its Activities never generate notifications and the only way to generate one is to run a test script? Tony You have information about how to test here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Notification_System By the way, I have

Re: [Sugar-devel] #4745 Develop UNSP: Develop 40 sugargame template error in activity.info

2014-03-27 Thread forster
Gonzalo I made you the owner of this bug because I think you are the most recent maintainer of Develop. Hope that's OK Tony #4745: Develop 40 sugargame template error in activity.info -+-- Reporter: tonyforster

[Sugar-devel] Develop activity

2014-03-26 Thread forster
Hi Could someone with the permissions please make the ASLO page for Develop http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4058 have a home page link to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Develop Thanks Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC'14 Proposal: Turtle Art 3D

2014-03-22 Thread forster
Hi Does it run on XO4 hardware? I got [olpc@xo-92-f0-ca Documents]$ python ta3d.py freeglut (foo): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ':0.0' Tony Dear All, I have drafted my GSoC 2014 proposal for the project : Turtle Art 3D

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC'14 Proposal: Turtle Art 3D

2014-03-22 Thread forster
Thanks Sam Its not a XO-4 or ARM issue, I get the same on XO-1.5. Tony I don't think xo4 has opengl. I tried to use a clutter based app and I got a crash :( Maybe there are some drivers, or otherwise you'll need to make 3d from the ground up. Have fun On Mar 22, 2014 9:10 PM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC'14 Proposal: Turtle Art 3D

2014-03-21 Thread forster
Anubhav A very interesting project with the potential to make a major contribution to the community. A couple of products worth looking at, particularly for their UI and how child friendly they are: Star Logo TNG is 3D http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogo-tng Kahootz was a 3D

Re: [Sugar-devel] editing a clone

2013-11-10 Thread forster
Sameer In Terminal type gedit navigate to home/olpc/Activities/[laptopname]copy_of_Clock.activity edit the source note in Sugar 0.100 you have the permissions to access the Activities directory, in some old Sugars and maybe future Sugars you do not chmod 777 Activities sets read and write

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Hackaton on eduJam 2013, Paraguay, October 13

2013-09-13 Thread forster
Hola I will be at Edujam. I am in Paraguay 7-13 October. I would like to discuss Android at the hackaton. Tony In the context of the next eduJam [1] in Paraguay, we plan do a hackaton. Who plans be there, and what topics do you would like discuss/hack? Gonzalo [1]

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-08-22

2013-08-23 Thread forster
Hi Spirituality for Kids seems to be closely associated with the Kabbalah Center. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah_Centre Tony On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:35 PM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Walter, Several points in your digest got my attention. First, I like the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar future

2013-04-13 Thread forster
1 Android kernel + Ported linux libraries + Sugar 2 Android kernel + Datastore/Collaboration replacement + Sugar rewritten in HTML 3 Full Android + Datastore/Collaboration replacement + Sugar activities rewritten in HTML 4 Full Android + Datastore/Collaboration replacement + Sugar activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar future

2013-04-12 Thread forster
Thanks to everybody who has contributed to the discussion so far, particularly to Sean for his well researched post on Android developments. The choices as I understand: 0) Do not have an Android transition plan 1) A suite of Activities with a common look and feel but leave things like file

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Single instance activities

2013-04-11 Thread forster
Hi When the XO was first designed it was an open choice for operating system, desktop and file manager. Some innovative choices were made to optimise the experience of new young users. Some I think were good, some bad. I think Android is the likely educational future. It is not an open choice

Re: [Sugar-devel] Tuxmath on 0.96+ mystery

2013-03-27 Thread forster
Gonzalo Thanks, Tuxmath on 0.96+ is a problem for the East Timor deployment. I want to be clear what you are recommending, before I pass the info on to them. Install your Tuxmath version and sudo yum install tuxmath Is that right? Or is the tuxmath packaged in fedora already part of Sugar 0.96?

Re: [Sugar-devel] New sugar contributions

2013-03-26 Thread forster
Hi You have looked at http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ ? Tony Hello, Matt and I are taking the Humanitarian and Open Source development class at Rochester Institute of Technology. We need to pick a portion of the OLPC project to work on, and we chose to do development on Sugar itself.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Network proxy, configuration

2013-03-15 Thread forster
Hello, I expect what Simon is asking is some more information to back up this statement: Both individual users and deployments need to be able to set a proxy for Sugar and activities to use. Hi To access internet in Australian government schools you need to use a proxy. I am not sure

Re: [Sugar-devel] Network proxy, configuration

2013-03-15 Thread forster
If the laptop is take home, the user would want to be able to access the internet in public libraries, Macdonalds restaurants, shopping malls, cafes, home etc. To do this they need to be able to disable the proxy. This might be a rarer requirement in this deployment, but it would be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Factorisation visualisation was Sugar Digest 2013-01-25

2013-01-27 Thread forster
Alan even better thanks Tony I change the .ta to this automatic version that begins in 1 and continues.. see .ta attached.. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Factorisation visualisation was Sugar Digest 2013-01-25

2013-01-26 Thread forster
http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/ Beautiful, thanks for sharing. If anyone does code this up, please allow for stepping (rather than playing) and allow kids to enter numbers and factors, so they can guess and look for patterns. Or kids could

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

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

2013-01-21 Thread forster
Thanks James If I understand, A developer makes a version of gcc that can run from ~/Activities/oopsy.activity , this is included in oopsy.xo bundle(maybe 2 versions x86 and ARM), at install time (optionally oopsy checks for the presence of gcc and if not present then) oopsy installs gcc at

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] [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] 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] [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] [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

2012-11-20 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] 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] [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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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,

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

2012-03-26 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] 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] [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

[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] 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

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] [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] [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] 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] 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] 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 ?

[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

[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,

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

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] [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] [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] [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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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?

[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] 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

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] [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

[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] 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

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