Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/5/28 Felipe López Toledo : >>Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long > me too. > here is an useful link about DOM > Storage https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:Storage >>Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox > anyway, I'm looking how to get running GG w

Re: [Sugar-devel] The moodle-Print User Experience

2009-05-29 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Also, I would like to know whether building this as a plugin to assignments module would be better than creating an activity from the scrap. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Collaboration/Google wave

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 23:01, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Google announced Google Wave today: http://wave.google.com/ > > The collaboration framework is really interesting: > http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform > > It would be very interesting to see how this might benefit

Re: [Sugar-devel] Running Sugar with sugar-jhbuild - questions

2009-05-29 Thread Bastien
Edward Cherlin writes: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Bastien wrote: >> Edward Cherlin writes: >> >>> You want 'setxkbmap fr'. >> >> It works!  Great, thanks. >> >> Is there something similar to .xsession where I could put this >> instruction, so that I don't need to run the script from wit

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think they're just a bit slow. They would break existing Gears applications if they relied on the mozilla stuff without at least a wrapper. 2009/5/29 Tomeu Vizoso : > 2009/5/28 Felipe López Toledo : >>>Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long >> me too. >> here is an usefu

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files (was: Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism)

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:53, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:34:03PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > >> 5).  When several Activities support the same MIME type (Zip files are >> BOUND to be popular) then there needs to be a way of specifying that a >> particular Journal entry shou

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files (was: Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism)

2009-05-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: [snip] > The journal and browse are able to sniff the types of these formats, > so activity authors are encourage to use this scheme and ship a > mimetypes.ml file inside their bundles. > Is there an example of what this should look like and wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/5/29 Lucian Branescu : > I think they're just a bit slow. They would break existing Gears > applications if they relied on the mozilla stuff without at least a > wrapper. Maybe modern GG applications have such wrapper? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Arc

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files (was: Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism)

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 13:50, Walter Bender wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > [snip] >> The journal and browse are able to sniff the types of these formats, >> so activity authors are encourage to use this scheme and ship a >> mimetypes.ml file inside their bundles.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
Not that I know of. I tried running several on Firefox 3.5 beta, none works. I guess someone could create a wrapper when all major browsers (except IE of course) have all/most of the features of Gears. JavaScript ORMs for example, tend to be able to use several backends (Gears, AIR, HTML 5 storage

[Sugar-devel] sugar-datastore configure.ac should check for Python 2.5 or higher

2009-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, Sugar-datastore uses constructs failing with Python older than 2.5: queue.join, queue.task_done, check_call, nested try-except-finally and fancy locking using "with". Until now I patched the sources for Debian to work also with Python 2.4.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/5/29 Lucian Branescu : > Not that I know of. I tried running several on Firefox 3.5 beta, none works. > > I guess someone could create a wrapper when all major browsers (except > IE of course) have all/most of the features of Gears. JavaScript ORMs > for example, tend to be able to use several

Re: [Sugar-devel] Collaboration/Google wave

2009-05-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 23:01, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> Google announced Google Wave today: http://wave.google.com/ >> >> The collaboration framework is really interesting: >> http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal criticism (or not)

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 18:16, James Simmons wrote: > My two cents: > > When I started programming computers 30+ years ago data was stored in > punch cards and reels of tape.  Disk storage was available, but too > expensive to use to store large amounts of data.  (I didn't hear the > word "gigabyt

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:23, Luke Faraone wrote: > 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> >>> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what >>> you are trying to accomplish? >> >> I think this is Ticket 598 to support th

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 00:24, James Simmons wrote: > Sascha, > > If the Activity creates a Zip file then the Journal automatically > resumes it in that Activity.  Making Activities use a special MIME type > when creating a Journal entry doesn't give me anything I don't have already. Well, if the

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files

2009-05-29 Thread James Simmons
Sayamindu, I'll have to try that out. I was thinking of making View Slides an Activity for *creating* slide shows rather than just viewing them anyway. It makes more sense to use Read for reading comic books than something called "View Slides". James Simmons Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > The

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704&page=77) a "fat" .EFI boot file compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Ubuntu has a useful matrix of compatible Macs at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS worked, though. I just got my laptop back, I should be able to test this as well. 2009/5/29 Sean DALY : > On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB b

[Sugar-devel] Browse broken on sugar-jhbuild?

2009-05-29 Thread Bastien
I'm having hard times using Browse on ./sugar-jhbuild It reguarily crashes, especially when browsing a mediawiki page. Before I investigate further, is this something that other people have experienced? Thanks, -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing li

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics acceleration. Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware > accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS > worked, though. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:47:05PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics >acceleration. Yeah, the URL I provided earlier in this thread deals with that issue. Not sure anyone found my URL rel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse broken on sugar-jhbuild?

2009-05-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:32:27PM +0200, Bastien wrote: I'm having hard times using Browse on ./sugar-jhbuild It reguarily crashes, especially when browsing a mediawiki page. On what kind of hardware? XO by any chance? Which distro (incl. version)? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:49, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Sounds very good, do we have a timeframe already for testing the first > results from this project? > Nothing definite as of yet. It's starting to look like it won't be ready for our F11/"SoaS v1" release, with an alpha coming out some time

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Luke, Please file a ticket for this work so I can track and reference it in the wiki and communications and such. Technical Question: Will this effect the code that is SoaS2 or is this going to be a new USB creation tool that takes the same code and puts it on the USB in a different way? Than

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum repo to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten, and I was wondering (also with regard to #

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 13:18, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Please file a ticket for this work so I can track and reference it in the > wiki and communications and such. > Will do. > Technical Question: Will this effect the code that is SoaS2 or is this > going to be a new USB creation tool that tak

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Updated Packages

2009-05-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, just a quick heads-up: I've built another snapshot yesterday, which brings along updated packages from our SoaS yum repo. * You're now able to install (manually) RPM Fusion packages again - it failed before. * It also includes the updated gstreamer-plugins-espeak package (now on

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi folks, > > sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been > spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum > repo > to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. > > As it turned out, the plymouth package has

[Sugar-devel] Guadec

2009-05-29 Thread David Farning
Is anyone planning on attending Guadec this July? david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Guadec

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 14:55, David Farning wrote: > Is anyone planning on attending Guadec this July? > For context, GUADEC is hosted at http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org and will be located in the Canary Islands. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc _

Re: [Sugar-devel] Guadec

2009-05-29 Thread Walter Bender
I am giving a keynote on July 4. -walter On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM, David Farning wrote: > Is anyone planning on attending Guadec this July? > > david > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
Sebastian, Gary I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for awhile What's the deadline please? thanks Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> sorry for the short notice, bu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: > Sebastian, Gary > > I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for > awhile Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. --G > What's the deadline please? > > thanks > Sean > > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Mart

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Documentation [WAS: Re: Help activity]

2009-05-29 Thread Seth Woodworth
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 21:47, Sayamindu Dasgupta > wrote: > > [Jumping into the discussion midway]: > > > > From an l10n point of view, I would highly recommend adopting (and > > perhaps extending) the GNOME documentation framework. It is d