Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-12-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/25 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi, After revisiting some of the changes I have made to the software while working on deployments I just wanted to post the list again as a refresher. Thanks for doing this, I think it really helps to ping people until the important stuff gets finally

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-27 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Sayamindu, On 25 Nov 2009, at 16:55, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: ..snip snip Another constant headache is with translations. How do you roll

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-27 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe using a GConf key would be easier here ? Let's make that kind of stuff a conffile. When you spin a custom image for a

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: Gconf is too brittle for this. Actually we are already using GConf for somewhat similar stuff. For example, by default Sugar provides a log-out button which is disabled via setting the right GConf key in the XO

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 25 Nov 2009, at 16:55, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: ..snip snip Another constant headache is with translations. How do you roll out new translations for old software? The best we have right now is

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe using a GConf key would be easier here ? Let's make that kind of stuff a conffile. When you spin a custom image for a deployment, you are either running a bit of shell from a 'kickstart' file or an init script

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Customizing browse homepage The procedure to do this is too complicated for most deployments, and is undocumented. ... Customizing which activities are in the favourites view by default One thing I am hoping for is to

[Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, After revisiting some of the changes I have made to the software while working on deployments I just wanted to post the list again as a refresher. I have not had enough time to do the appropriate master-level QA on these, or to get them running on the latest Sugar versions. I hope that some

Re: [Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, After revisiting some of the changes I have made to the software while working on deployments I just wanted to post the list again as a refresher. I have not had enough time to do the appropriate master-level QA on