[Sugar-devel] thinking about i18n issues

2009-06-29 Thread Bryan Berry
I didn't get much coding done last week but I did a fair bit of reading about i18n and how to best apply it to Karma -- you can read more here: http://karmaproject.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/i18n-issues/ There are other issues that i didn't touch on, such as how to store and retrieve localized

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teacher admin panels on content we are sugarizing

2009-06-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: My understanding is that both GCompris and Teachermate have teacher admin functionality that let teachers view student progress etc. Is there a roadmap or plan for how we are going to bring that functionality

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar and ebooks

2009-06-29 Thread Bastien
Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com writes: Ah - you need to be using a Python 2.6 based system to use this (Fedora 11, or Ubuntu 9.04, etc). This is the trouble with the current FBReader Activity - most of its internal are composed of binary blobs. Ok... will try to rebuild sugar-jhbuild

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v3

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Key features after merging/adapting AMO upstream code. From users point of view. * Collections feature. Anyone can create own collection of activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collections/add add existed collections to favorites list

[Sugar-devel] Linuxtag - Résumée

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, Linuxtag ( http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 ) is over - time for a résumée: I am very happy about how the conference went. The Sugar Labs booth team were good representatives of a community that is easy to approach. I want to thank the team in spreading the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v3

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
The looks great. Big improvements in usability. david On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, Key features after merging/adapting AMO upstream code. From users point of view. * Collections feature.  Anyone can create own collection of activities

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [TwinCLinG] first Indian python conference

2009-06-29 Thread Sameer Verma
FYI PyCon India 2009 26th and 27th September 2009 Venue: IISC, Bengaluru Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:38 AM Subject: [TwinCLinG] first Indian python conference To: chenna...@googlegroups.com, Indian

Re: [Sugar-devel] Linuxtag - Résumée

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/29/2009 03:15 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, Linuxtag ( http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 ) is over - time for a résumée: I am very happy about how the conference went. The Sugar Labs booth team were good representatives of a community that is easy to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 20:13, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/6/21 Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com: We have about 60 characters worth of blank space in every Journal entry. It would be a great help if we could display

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Linuxtag - R ésumée

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
2009/6/29 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: I'm exhausted and even asked myself if it was worth it I was so tired last night. But this morning I was recharged! I have posted a link to my Flickr photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656...@n02/sets/72157620524327203/) at the bottom of the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:39:22PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: We have about 60 characters worth of blank space in every Journal entry. It would be a great help if we could display 40-50 characters from the description field for each entry on the main page. We could also drop off the word

[Sugar-devel] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, the SFScon 2009 will be held in Bolzano [1]. As part of that the TIS[2] would be willing host a Sugarcamp. The camp would be part of the free software week [3], where a GNOME Hackfest will happen as well. It fits quite well in our release cycle (0.88 planning/hacking) and having the GNOME

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 16:55, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:39:22PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: We have about 60 characters worth of blank space in every Journal entry. It would be a great help if we could display 40-50 characters from the description

Re: [Sugar-devel] datastore results inconsistency

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 12:57 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 18:57, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Tomeu, I found the issue with the journal showing a duplicated entry after hand-deleting a datastore entry. Thanks for looking at this. As we discussed on IRC,

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Pippy-34

2009-06-29 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Url: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4041 Release notes: Editor now auto-indents and tabs are now two spaces. Reviewer comments: This request has been approved. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-06-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 16:55, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, the SFScon 2009 will be held in Bolzano [1]. As part of that the TIS[2] would be willing host a Sugarcamp. The camp would be part of the free software week [3], where a GNOME Hackfest will happen as well. It fits

Re: [Sugar-devel] Downloading all Sugar activities?

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:27:33PM +0200, Bastien wrote: Hi all, still preparing the OLPC deployment in Nosy Komba. We thought it would be nice to provide offline resources. Is there a way to download all Sugar activities? just an option, create list of ASLO ids and use url

Re: [Sugar-devel] Downloading all Sugar activities?

2009-06-29 Thread Bastien
Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org writes: just an option, create list of ASLO ids and use url http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/id to download them from any script Will do this - thanks for the fast feedback! -- Bastien

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Jun 2009, at 16:07, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 16:55, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:39:22PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: We have about 60 characters worth of blank space in every Journal entry. It would be a great help if we

[Sugar-devel] Java programs

2009-06-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
Caryl asked me if elluninate, the program we are using to give virtual presentations at NECC Unplugged works on Sugar. http://www.neccunplugged.com/ It does not right now. What would it take to make it work? What does it take to make a random Java program work? I know Concord Consortium has

Re: [Sugar-devel] Java programs

2009-06-29 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello Caroline. have you people though on using DimDim (it's floss)? In order to work under Sugar, the program needs the Java runtime environment, and some additions to your PATH. but this is only to work, not counting the ''sugarization''. HTH. Rafael Ortiz On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:26 PM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, the SFScon 2009 will be held in Bolzano [1]. As part of that the TIS[2] would be willing host a Sugarcamp. The camp would be part of the free software week [3], where a GNOME Hackfest will happen as well. It

Re: [Sugar-devel] Java programs

2009-06-29 Thread Dave Bauer
Elluminate is Java Web Start, so the browser needs to associate the JNLP with javaws if its installed after you figure out how to install Java. Dave On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: Caryl asked me if elluninate, the program we are using to give

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on the press (Paraguay)

2009-06-29 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias-253839.htm ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on the press (Paraguay)

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
Many thanks Raul! I will post that in the press coverage digest to the marketing list Sean Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Raul Gutierrez Segalesr...@rieder.net.py wrote: http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias-253839.htm

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 20:13, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/6/21 Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com: We have about 60 characters worth of blank

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Stone
Gary C. Martin wrote: I like the intent, but I don't think the activity centric view has concrete enough spec to consider implementing yet. I want to convince you that we actually have enough detail to make forward progress with. To that end, I'm going to offer a bunch of text on how I

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick - and Csound

2009-06-29 Thread Art Hunkins
Does anyone have insight concerning this response from Victor Lazzarini of the csound-devel listserv? (Victor wrote the csndsugui activity for Sugar and is responsible for the Csound 5.08.91 rpm package.) My USB drive has nothing on it but Sugar, and we've no idea what module Python is trying

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
Oh, Michael, you're in trouble now. ^_^ You risk reinventing the data-centric Ontology in an Object-Oriented Programming form. This is one of the worst sinks for time and mental energy that I know of. It saps the will, because soon users become obsessed with making the map match the territory,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote: Gary C. Martin wrote: I like the intent, but I don't think the activity centric view has concrete enough spec to consider implementing yet. I want to convince you that we actually have enough detail to make forward

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

2009-06-29 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Edward Cherlinecher...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, Michael, you're in trouble now. ^_^ You risk reinventing the data-centric Ontology in an Object-Oriented Programming form. This is one of the worst sinks for time and mental energy that I know of. It saps the will,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick - and Csound

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:26PM -0400, Art Hunkins wrote: Does anyone have insight concerning this response from Victor Lazzarini of the csound-devel listserv? (Victor wrote the csndsugui activity for Sugar and is responsible for the Csound 5.08.91 rpm package.) My USB drive has nothing

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Presence Service and Resume Behavior

2009-06-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
My GSoC project involves getting offline collaboration working. My model for this is that two users can join a shared session, then go offline, resume the session from the journal, continue working, and then later resume again when they are on the same network/server and have the two instances

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Presence Service and Resume Behavior

2009-06-29 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: My GSoC project involves getting offline collaboration working. My model for this is that two users can join a shared session, then go offline, resume the session from the journal, continue working, and then

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Presence Service and Resume Behavior

2009-06-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Eben Eliason wrote: I know GroupThink does everything it can to prevent collisions, but with this we should also be thinking about the worst case. The intended baseline behavior (before we get into any fancy merging libraries) was to allow two instances with the same activity_id but different

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Presence Service and Resume Behavior

2009-06-29 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Eben Eliason wrote: I know GroupThink does everything it can to prevent collisions, but with this we should also be thinking about the worst case. The intended baseline behavior (before we get into any fancy

[Sugar-devel] [API proposal] toolbox.get_toolbars()

2009-06-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
While adding the bookmarklet functionality to Browse, I realised that the toolbox API is hard to work with if your toolbars change. For example, set_current_toolbar() takes the index of the toolbar as a parameter, something which you can't really know if your toolbars move around. Tomeu suggested

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Presence Service and Resume Behavior

2009-06-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Eben Eliason wrote: I know GroupThink does everything it can to prevent collisions, but with this we should also be thinking about the worst case. The intended baseline behavior (before

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] toolbox.get_toolbars()

2009-06-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
I have some workarounds in my Browse, it works fine without that patch on 0.84 I haven't tried it on 0.82 yet, but AFAIK Browse 108 doesn't work in 0.82. None of my changes should prevent it from running on 0.82 though, so I should be able to backport them. It's just not something I've tackled

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] toolbox.get_toolbars()

2009-06-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
I have some workarounds in my Browse, it works fine without that patch on 0.84 I haven't tried it on 0.82 yet, but AFAIK Browse 108 doesn't work in 0.82. None of my changes should prevent it from running on 0.82 though, so I should be able to backport them. It's just not something I've tackled

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Presence Service and Resume Behavior

2009-06-29 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Eben Eliason wrote: I know GroupThink does everything it can to prevent collisions, but with this we