On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:20 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> I don't think that nor OLPC nor SLs can do much against MS' press machine:
>
> http://www.scidev.net/en/new-technologies/digital-divide/low-cost-laptops-to-change-from-linux-to-microsoft.html
>
> But if from time to time OLPC's press releas
Sayamindu Dasgupta writes:
> It may make sense to allow setting of the font as well. While the
> default "Sans" may be good enough for most European scripts, it may
> cause problems for Arabic, Asian, South Asian scripts, etc. "Sans"
> usually resolves to DejaVu Sans, etc, which often carry subopt
2010/1/31 Albert Cahalan
> Sayamindu Dasgupta writes:
>
> > It may make sense to allow setting of the font as well. While the
> > default "Sans" may be good enough for most European scripts, it may
> > cause problems for Arabic, Asian, South Asian scripts, etc. "Sans"
> > usually resolves to Deja
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:39, Tim McNamara wrote:
> It is released under an open font licence, however I remember hearing
> difficulties with typeface licencing & GPL.
>
The FSF doesn't state that the SIL OFL is incompatible with the GPL:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#Fonts
O
On Saturday, January 30, 2010, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> selection of the font. If I remember right, there are about 14 scripts
> in active use around the world.
Ha! If only!
Really, the problems described here can all be solved by careful font
selection and configuration. Fontconfig allows 'vir
I'd like to import rainbow 0.8.6 in Fedora devel and backport it to
F-11, for the purpose of getting it in the Paraguayan build, and maybe
also in the F11-XO1 and SoaS, if there's interest.
Anything important I should be aware of?
--
// Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
\X/ Sugar Labs
> I'd like to import rainbow 0.8.6 in Fedora devel and backport it to
> F-11, for the purpose of getting it in the Paraguayan build, and maybe
> also in the F11-XO1 and SoaS, if there's interest.
Thanks. Let me know what assistance you'd like.
> Anything important I should be aware of?
My sugges
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
> Finally, in the long run, it would be nice to figure out how to make use of
> rainbow-0.8's ability to resume individual uids. (Martin Langhoff expressed
> some interest in this issue in dlo#8814.)
And a patch. The patch explains what I mea
Nicholas,
That's great. I'll try to test that on my upcoming bus trip...
copying the sugar devel list as well. Tim, can you ask your
colleagues active in Haiti to test this as well?
SJ
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Nicholas Doiron
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The beta OfflineMaps activity le
That news blurb was certainly bold... it's also from Fall 2008. It's
harder to spread FUD when a couple years of stories of XOs in
classrooms involve Sugar.
I would like to work together on a series of blog posts about the new
Sugar version that will be shipping on the 1.5's. If some of the
act
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