[Sugar-devel] Fwd: journal criticism (was Re: Re: Re: [IAEP] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-51)

2009-05-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[forgot to add IAEP and sugar-devel] -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomeu Vizoso Date: Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:11 Subject: journal criticism (was Re: Re: Re: [IAEP] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-51) To: fors...@ozonline.com.au Cc: Walter Bender Hi all, see my replies inline below. To eve

[Sugar-devel] Manipulate network connectivity

2009-05-27 Thread noutash
Greetings all, Here in OLPC Afghanistan we require to impose some restrictions on network detection of XOs: 1. We would like to restrict the XOs to only connect to the school network. Due to the sensitivity of the culture here we don not want to allow kids to connect to open networks/Internet. 2

Re: [Sugar-devel] Manipulate network connectivity

2009-05-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[adding de...@l.l.o to cc] Hi Basir, you are more than welcome to keep posting to sugar-devel when it's related to Sugar or when in doubt, but in this case your question is very specific to the XO hardware so I'm adding de...@lists.laptop.org to cc. In that list is more probable you will find peo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity development

2009-05-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
I'm in the same situation (well, I will be when I get my macbook back). I do see a lot of talk towards making Sugar and activities behave more like standard applications. Perhaps Sugar will work on OS X natively some day. 2009/5/27 Gary C Martin : > Hi Asaf, > > On 27 May 2009, at 05:00, Asaf Par

Re: [Sugar-devel] Kartik - internship outside GSoC

2009-05-27 Thread kartik rustagi
Hello everyone, Sorry for replying after this long a duration. Exams followed by physical damage to my machine consumed a lot of time. I will like to start my internship under Sugarlabs ASAP. Can any one please provide me a link to all the ideas that were discussed at the recent Sugar meetup (in Pa

[Sugar-devel] Help wanted remixing the Help Activity

2009-05-27 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, We'd like to update the Help Activity and have the ability to have different versions for OLPC-XOs and Sugar on a Stick, etc. Why is this important? - Shipping SoaS with the Sugar Manual included will help the user experience - Having a ? icon in the ring will help people want help

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity development

2009-05-27 Thread Brian Jordan
Bert's 8.2-767 VMWare Fusion image is a nice OS X option (at least for the trial period) http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2008/12/emulating-latest-stable-olpc-xo.html On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I'm in the same situation (well, I will be when I get my macbook back). >

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-27

2009-05-27 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest === 1. Between yesterday's announcement of a major new deployment in Australia (Sugar running on the OLPC XO-1) to a flurry of smaller-scale, grassroots Sugar on a Stick deployments to the pick-up of Sugar by most of the upstream Linux distributions to the growing volume of discuss

[Sugar-devel] Open Video with Dailymotion

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Dailymotion, after creating an Ogg Theora video site optimized for Sugar+XO at http://olpc.dailymotion.com/, have gone one step further to expand Ogg Theora support across their entire video sharing system. You can try it out at http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/ Dailymotion OpenVideo uses the ta

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity development

2009-05-27 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I'm in the same situation (well, I will be when I get my macbook back). > > I do see a lot of talk towards making Sugar and activities behave more > like standard applications. Perhaps Sugar will work on OS X natively > some day. Anybody w

[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
For both Webified and Karma, Gears support in Browse is necessary (or at least preferred), but AFAIK there is currently no strategy to get it running. Since Browse uses xulrunner, it should be possible to use the Firefox version of Gears, with possible modifications. However, I could not find any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Lucian Branescu wrote: > On a related note, Sebastian Dzillas has done some work on packaging > Gears in a .rpm for Firefox. Also David van Assche. --Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@li

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Lucian Branescu wrote: > The work is not complete, as the > extension tries to write in places owned by root, instead of the local > user profile. So then it is not usable on any Linux system, since users do not run with root privileges...? --Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
Yes. I believe Gears tries to write its profile relative to where it is installed. Since it is usually installed in Firefox's user profile, it works in that case. I tried Sebastian's .rpm with and without root, it only worked with root. However, I view this as a minor problem, with Gears actually

[Sugar-devel] classroom presenter, iTalc for sugar (possible ports for LinuxTag Berlin showoff)

2009-05-27 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest to me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be presented there. From one side, I will be representing sugar packaging on the openSUSE platform, and being part of the opensuse-edu team, we will show o

Re: [Sugar-devel] disabling "tap to click"

2009-05-27 Thread roshan karki
The problem with gsynaptics is I don't have any section with "synaptic" as identifier in xorg.conf On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > I'm forwarding this to de...@lists.laptop.org because some people > familiar with the OLPC hardware and software might not be in > sugar-devel