Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Print Queue and Device Icon

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Vamsi, On 23 Jun 2009, at 08:35, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote: > Eben, > > Thanks for replying, I have taken your > suggestions into account and have made > this. It now randomly > > 1) It takes a hash of the username for coloring > the icon Re 'username', this is the name of the printer

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Update: SharedTextDemo-3

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jun 2009, at 10:22, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:56, Benjamin M. > Schwartz wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> SharedTextDemo-3 is available at >> http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/SharedTextDemo-3.xo > > Congrats, I'm wondering if any of the gam

[Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday June 26th - 17:00 UTC

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi All, David Farning has suggested agenda items for the ActivityTeam to cover; I'm not sure we can realistically solve many, but it would at least be good to see what page each of us is on, where we might be able to pull in the same direction, and bounce about some ideas in realtime :-)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote: > http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with the Sugar UI. Som

Re: [Sugar-devel] Strawberry VDI, please

2009-06-25 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Jun 2009, at 21:00, Dave Bauer wrote: > It was creatd witth Virtualbox 2.2.4. I tested on Virtualbox hosts > on Linux and Mac OS X. FWIW, boots fine here on a MacBook Pro using VirtualBox 2.2.4. Regards, --Gary > Dave > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Ton van Overbeek > wrote: > Tried

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

2009-06-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Fred, On 28 Jun 2009, at 19:33, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: > > I've just tried a quick mock-up to bounce around some ideas, Tomeu > is there a wiki page you're working from that this (and others) >

Re: [Sugar-devel] is olpcgames obsolete?

2009-06-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 2009/6/25 Asaf Paris Mandoki : >> Wondering around sugarlabs wiki I found the way to save the current >> state of an activity to the journal here >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.activity.activity >> >> The physics

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Physics Activity] Saving contraptions

2009-06-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Asaf, On 18 Jun 2009, at 02:42, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: > I've been doing some research and I think that the easiest way to > save a world is by pickling. Pybox2d already supports it so it is > pretty straightforward. I think this should be implemented at the > level of Elements and no

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

2009-06-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Jun 2009, at 15:55, Aleksey Lim 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 field for each entry o

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 Lim > 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-

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

2009-06-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Jun 2009, at 00:32, Michael Stone wrote: -- big snip from old thread --- >> - Better Anything toolbar filter palette (use a grid layout to >> minimise scrolling) > > How do you think > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Toolbars > > would work out here? An 'Anything' filt

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse.xo -- preserving a downloaded filename?

2009-06-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Jun 2009, at 18:20, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 06/30/2009 07:17 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> Using Browse.xo v101 on 8.2.x I cannot get Browse.xo to save a file >> with the name that I am requesting. >> >> Browse.xo seems to take the name I hint from the server (from the URL >> and using

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

2009-07-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Jul 2009, at 10:54, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 18:14, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> - Showing tags under the title would be great (Tomeu, I will help >> where I >> can) > > Hope to push my work on the journal treeview soon, then you can take

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

2009-07-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jul 2009, at 02:40, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 1 Jul 2009, at 10:54, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 18:14, Gary C Martin >> wrote: >>> - Better Anything toolbar filter palette (use a grid layout to >>> minimise >>> scrolling) >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal --- Sugar-Developers meeting REMINDER (2 July, 2009 - 14.00 (UTC)) --- irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:47, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Aleksey Lim > wrote: >> But in that case we should provide possibility to mark objects that >> can >> be shared(I guess sharing all local objects by default is not a >> nice idea). > > Right. This would be essentia

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

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 3 Jul 2009, at 05:25, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:29:47AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> Aleksey was keen to see any Journal mock-up work in progress I had, >> early as possible, so here's where I'm at :-) There's plenty to do &g

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

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 05:53, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:25:54AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> * additional types of filters >> for example Library has[2] several types to filter objects >> >> * user tags >> * object traits(additional columns from previous section) like >> auth

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

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 06:06, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:53:42AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:25:54AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> * additional types of filters >>> for example Library has[2] several types to filter objects >>> >>> * user tags >>> *

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

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 06:13, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 05:06:30AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:53:42AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:25:54AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: * additional types of filters for example Library h

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

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 10:01, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> Aleksey was keen to see any Journal mock-up work in progress I had, >> early as possible, so here's where I'm at :-) There's plenty to do >> st

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal --- Sugar-Developers meeting REMINDER (2 July, 2009 - 14.00 (UTC)) --- irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:47, Eben Eliason wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Aleksey >>> Lim wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal --- Sugar-Developers meeting REMINDER (2 July, 2009 - 14.00 (UTC)) --- irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 23:50, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 3 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Gary C Martin >> wrote: >>> On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:47, Eben Eliason wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:42

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to create a project on SugarLabs gitorious?

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bastien, H, I might well be confused here, but looking at gitiorus I see no helpfr project for you to push to: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr You need to login, click "Projects" in the top right, then "New project" in the left, and create your project. Once created,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Get Internet Archive Books Activity source code

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 4 Jul 2009, at 01:25, Jim Simmons wrote: > Version 2 of Get Internet Archive Books was released this morning. I > like this one a lot better than my first effort; it should be good > enough to use, not just criticize. I have put the source code tar.bz > on shell.sugarlabs.org in /u

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday June 26th - 17:00 UTC

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 05:12, S Page wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:04 PM, David > Farning wrote: > >>> Maybe. Stand back, what the heck is Activities/All for? I marked >>> the >>> page obsolete and nobody has disagreed. ... >> >> Someone disagreed quite enthusiastically the other day. Their

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal --- Sugar-Developers meeting REMINDER (2 July, 2009 - 14.00 (UTC)) --- irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 03:13, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: >>> Devils advocate here, so just because someone was late to the >>> realtime >>> party, they don't get to download an otherwise openly published

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal --- Sugar-Developers meeting REMINDER (2 July, 2009 - 14.00 (UTC)) --- irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 03:18, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Andrés > Ambrois wrote: >> On Friday 03 July 2009 02:29:56 pm Eben Eliason wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Gary C >>> Martin wrote: >>>> On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:4

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

2009-07-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 10:08, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 20:29, James Zaki wrote: >> Perhaps this is a late reply, (I am yet to read the last 6 or so >> digests of >> to 20+ that were in my inbox) >> But I am always sensitive of little incremental additions that seem >> like it >>

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

2009-07-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 09:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 05:19, Eben Eliason wrote: >> >> It sounds like you're describing a NOT filter (eg. kind:text NOT >> activity:terminal), though, which the current UI doesn't support, as >> all of the filter options are combined with an AND. I t

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

2009-07-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 16:29, Gary C Martin wrote: > > P.S. Should have another round of updates to the mock-ups later today. OK, that's the next revision & update of mock-up images with comments – still more to add (When/Who), but the toolbars at least show icons for the main pote

[Sugar-devel] Read Activity question (single page view)

2009-07-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sayamindu, Saw some of your Read roadmap items today, and just wanted to ping and ask how viable you think it would be for Read to support a single page by page view for PDFs (rather than current continuous scrolling mode)? I've been thinking it would be better for memory consumption (co

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

2009-07-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 04:19, Eben Eliason wrote: > I'll throw this idea back out there for fun, too. I don't know if > there's a way to do even this without adding too much complexity, but > we did make some mockups of an "advanced" sort bar, which instead of > sorting on columns allowed creation of h

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

2009-07-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Jul 2009, at 11:36, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 19:02, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> Being Mr ActivityTeam at the moment, I do really worry about the >> amount of work this is going to be to get Activities updated and >> complying to a large toolbar r

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

2009-07-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 3 Jul 2009, at 19:29, James Zaki wrote: > Perhaps this is a late reply, (I am yet to read the last 6 or so > digests of to 20+ that were in my inbox) No not late at all! :-) > But I am always sensitive of little incremental additions that seem > like it would be useful. > > I a

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

2009-07-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jul 2009, at 03:36, Eben Eliason wrote: > That said, I'm actually thinking that the tag > dropdown should be an extension of the search field itself. Perhaps > it's just to the right, and only needs to be a little down arrow that > reveals the tags (or perhaps we even modify the search entry t

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

2009-07-06 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 5 Jul 2009, at 23:52, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 4 Jul 2009, at 04:19, Eben Eliason wrote: >> I'll throw this idea back out there for fun, too. I don't know if >> there's a way to do even this without adding too much complexity, but >> we did mak

Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity

2009-07-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Art, On 7 Jul 2009, at 03:46, Art Hunkins wrote: > Tomeu, > > I've had no luck modifying background color for anything except > buttons. > > No boxes, even when the box is completely empty. > > Does anyone know how to change the color of the entire screen, or of > a box? I can remember hi

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jul 2009, at 00:13, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Specifically for the GPA > > We have 18 computers. Wired to the internet, we don't know the > details. We are trying to bring in another computer, install the XS > for it and put it beside the existing computers. > > For this summer we would be

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jul 2009, at 01:20, Walter Bender wrote: > My laptop (jhbuild) and Classmate (running the same Strawberry > version of SoaS) both connected to the jabber server and were stable > on the same network as the other machines. Well that's good news I guess :-) Is the SoaS for your Classmate

Re: [Sugar-devel] Nobody understands "Keep"

2009-07-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Jul 2009, at 11:29, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:45 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Nobody in the world seems to understand the Keep button.

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: SoAS Testing with XS

2009-07-09 Thread Gary C Martin
Sorry, this was meant to go to the list no just Caroline. Begin forwarded message: > From: Gary C Martin > Date: 9 July 2009 15:54:34 BST > To: Caroline Meeks > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS > > On 9 Jul 2009, at 15:19, Caroline Meeks wrote: > >> I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 10 Jul 2009, at 16:19, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/toolbars > there is simle example in examples/toolbar.py > > Does it satisfy mockups? Sugar-jhbuild is broken for me just now so can't look/test :-( Is this toolbar exam

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jul 2009, at 10:12, Simon Schampijer wrote: > for reference: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/ > New_Toolbar_Design > eben's mockups: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Toolbars > > I had a brief look at the code. Looks like a great start and proof > of concept. What I t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jul 2009, at 14:40, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:12:31AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> a) DESIGN: discuss the design further and get some mockups >> together, one >> question that came up is: do we always have a one line secondary tool >> bar? > > Do you mean hiding s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jul 2009, at 14:42, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 11 Jul 2009, at 10:12, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> for reference: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/ >> New_Toolbar_Design >> eben's mockups: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Toolbars >> &

Re: [Sugar-devel] Nobody understands "Keep"

2009-07-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jul 2009, at 19:15, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso > wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:41, Eben Eliason wrote: >>> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:45 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: >

[Sugar-devel] Physics activity (Was: Release v3 tonight?)

2009-07-12 Thread Gary C Martin
> save it or if it is an olpcgames problem. Yea just a 50% grey preview here, I have a feeling I've read somewhere it was a pygames/olpcgames issue (Maze has the same problem). Hmmm, can activities provide their own thumbnail? I've read something but can't remember if

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Jul 2009, at 19:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:16, Aleksey Lim > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:14:33AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:29:08PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Jul 2009, at 21:01, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 13 Jul 2009, at 19:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:16, Aleksey Lim >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:14:33AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:29:08PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity (Was: Release v3 tonight?)

2009-07-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Jul 2009, at 05:46, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: > On 13 Jul 2009, at 03:11, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> Think we need to make a call on the stability of the new Physics >> Journal state format first, or at least make sure everyone knows >> the storage format may (or

[Sugar-devel] Unstable 0.85.1 reporting/feedback policy

2009-07-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi, Just wanted to check on the etiquette regarding reporting issues with unstable release 0.85.1 and on. Would you like lots of new tickets assigned to 'Git as of bug date' (there's no formal mention of 0.85), some IRC chats, email chatter, or a wiki page? :-) If there's a wiki that alread

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA School Visit report for Tuesday July 14

2009-07-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Jul 2009, at 21:35, Greg Smith wrote: > I also spent 1/2 hour debugging collaboration. Dave and Gary helped on > IRC. They pointed me a tool called Analyze (can someone put that on > the main activities page ASAP? I didn't write down the URL and will > need to fetch it again tomorrow). Done

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA School Visit report for Tuesday July 14

2009-07-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 15 Jul 2009, at 02:33, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Caroline Meeks > wrote: >> As Greg said we finally got collaboration working! >> >> The problem was that we had cloned the owner.key and >> owner.key.pub. The fix >> was to delete those before cloni

Re: [Sugar-devel] Request to add webkitgtk as a external dependency

2009-07-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:22, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 2009/7/14 Sayamindu Dasgupta : >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Sascha >> Silbe wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:10:12PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>> Since the version of pywebkitgtk shipped in both Fedora and Ubun

Re: [Sugar-devel] [API proposal] Source editor and widget

2009-07-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Jul 2009, at 17:07, Lucian Branescu wrote: > Here it is > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac#How_do_I_create_a_text_box_for_code_editing.3F Thanks Lucian, I've been watching this thread from the sidelines. I for one would LOVE the current 'view source' view to become a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:21, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:03:15PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Aleksey >> Lim wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17:13AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, One of lacks that sugar environment has

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity (Was: Release v3 tonight?)

2009-07-16 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Asaf, Brian, On 15 Jul 2009, at 00:27, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 13 Jul 2009, at 05:46, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: >> >> Friday is only good for me if we do it around 3pm GMT. > > Brian: is 3pm GMT good for you? #sugar-meeting is free by my > calculations UK==16:00, US/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 03:43, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> Would be really good if we could just get the uploading of Journal >> entries via Browse working reliably, right now it's only certain >> simple object types

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:43, Aleksey Lim >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:11:15AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >>>> On 17 Jul 2009, at 02:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 17 Jul 2009, at 09:52, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Here are my image mock-ups for Write. All tabs are swapped out as >> is, for >> toolbar buttons. With no need to move existing tab content features >> about: >> >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Toolbars#Top_l

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
would usually involve a school Windows file server and share disk space, or just not be allowed from the school point of view), but wanted to see if you have a list of current approaches for these. Regards, --Gary > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Edward Cherlin > wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Initial implementation of toolbars design

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 17 Jul 2009, at 22:14, Caroline Meeks wrote: > We can put it in front of actual kids once you get a sample > working. We could even try playing the video for our existing > classes. I don't know if they'll be able to give you feedback from > just seeing the video. Might be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 15:49, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:42:57PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> On 17 Jul 2009, at 10:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity (Was: Release v3 tonight?)

2009-07-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Jul 2009, at 03:32, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Asaf, Brian, > > On 15 Jul 2009, at 00:27, Gary C Martin wrote: >> On 13 Jul 2009, at 05:46, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: >>> >>> Friday is only good for me if we do it around 3pm GMT. >> >> Brian: is 3p

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Benjamin, On 17 Jul 2009, at 03:06, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Download: > http://bemasc.net/~bens/SharedTextDemo-4.xo > > Requires Sugar 0.82 or better. > > Short: > This version adds support for automerge after offline editing. User > may start a > shared session, then edit separately,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

2009-07-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jul 2009, at 16:36, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Gary C Martin wrote: >> I just want to raise a note of interest. I've been pondering future >> possibilities for collaboration in Physics: >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity (Was: Release v3 tonight?)

2009-07-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jul 2009, at 22:30, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: > Hi, > In order to make the UI more friendly y suggest removing hidden > features of the joint tool that allow you to add pins because I > think it is unexpected behavior. Yes, I almost removed the "right click to pin" hidden feature when I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 19 Jul 2009, at 18:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> :-( triple damn and blast... I used a (recent) flash de-compiler to >> convert >> the .SWF into a v7 .FLA. I can access all the project/code/media, >> but the >> levels still didn't progress (though I could always get through the >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jul 2009, at 18:17, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> :-( triple damn and blast... I used a (recent) flash de-compiler to >>> convert the .SWF into a v7 .FLA. I can access all the project/code/ >>> media, >>> but the levels still didn't progress (though I could always get >>> through the >>> exit).

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jul 2009, at 19:05, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 20:01, Gary C Martin > wrote: > >> I've been trying to test your gnash gtk+ widget and the eatboom >> project in >> current sugar-jhbuild but failing at an early hurdle :-) Any hints

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jul 2009, at 19:57, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 20:50, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 19 Jul 2009, at 19:05, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 20:01, Gary C Martin >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'

[Sugar-devel] Gnash gtk+ widget support

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, Given that gnash, with the correct gtk+ python support, is not going to be here officially until F12 (November), does that make your gnash gtk+ work as something more reasonable to push*** for in the Sugar 0.88 time-scale? Hmmm, I guess that's actually more a distro question, if s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics activity (Was: Release v3 tonight?)

2009-07-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Asaf, On 20 Jul 2009, at 06:16, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the feedback. The save/load functionality is ready and I'll > be committing soon to elements. :-) > Brian: What is the status of the library handling? I'll have to update > elements after I commit to enable the new

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-21 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bastian, On 21 Jul 2009, at 15:39, Bastien wrote: > Hi Sayamindu, > > thans in advance for your help. > > The original Help activity repo is here: > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help > > The derived Helpfr activity is here: > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr > > They both rely o

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Goals Status

2009-07-21 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Greg, On 21 Jul 2009, at 14:51, Greg Smith wrote: > I may also add a feature to share a file from one > computer to another. I want to see a lesson plan needing that first. > Then I'll try out the suggestions recently posted to the list before I > ask for a new feature. Have you tried using t

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Goals Status

2009-07-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Jul 2009, at 21:24, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 22:15, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> >> Have you tried using the "Send to --> friend" Journal feature? >> Obviously you need local collaboration working first, and added some >> frie

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-21 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bastien, On 21 Jul 2009, at 21:02, Bastien wrote: > thanks for the warnings. > > Are the Help/Helpfr activities the only two instances of such > compatibility issue with 0.82 and 0.84 hulahop versions? > > If not, what are the other decisions that have been made? There was at least one other

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Goals Status

2009-07-21 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 21 Jul 2009, at 22:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 22:56, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 21 Jul 2009, at 21:24, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 22:15, Gary C Martin >>> wrote: >>>> >>&g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 22 Jul 2009, at 14:43, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Please check out > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr/repos/sayamindus-clone and > see if it works for you. If it works, we can probably merge this clone > into mainline. Just tested here on sugar-jhbuild (0.85.1) and it's

[Sugar-devel] Buddy Tagging (Was: GPA Goals Status)

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Jul 2009, at 23:51, Caroline Meeks wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: > >> Hi Greg, >> >> On 21 Jul 2009, at 14:51, Greg Smith wrote: >> >>> I may also add a feature to share a file from one >>> computer t

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Greg, On 22 Jul 2009, at 19:58, Greg Smith wrote: > That brings up the question of how they can tag the items they want to > easily find them later. That is, as they look around on Wikipedia or > elsewhere and find text and images they want to use, how do we collect > them and show them (and o

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 20:09, Walter Bender wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smith > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I posted the full notes here: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes >> >> Three high level points: >> - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 22:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hello, > While looking at the existing Library Bundle mechanism, I was > wondering if it would be possible to bypass the Browser altogether and > launch the catalog inside Read itself (for library bundles that have > ebooks in them). If we use

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-23 Thread Gary C Martin
n 0.86? Regards, --Gary >> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:33:09 +0100 >> From: Gary C Martin >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read >> To: Sayamindu Dasgupta >> Cc: Sugar devel , OLPC >> Bookreader >>list >> Message-ID

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sayamindu, On 23 Jul 2009, at 19:02, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Gary C Martin > wrote: > > <..snip snip> > >> >> Hmmm. The down side of this is that you end up with 1 Journal zip >> bundle >> holding a large nu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmons wrote: > Gary, > > What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, and which > shows image files for book covers. Yes, book cover images, is the big missing feature with current Journal abilities when accessing external media (along with a Journa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jul 2009, at 18:28, Gary C Martin wrote: > Just wondering. If I had a USB stick with 2,000 pdf, plain text, > etext, djvu, epub etc files on it... if they are at least reasonably > well titled file names (lets say at least title, author), then a child > can: > > 1). pop in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jul 2009, at 22:56, Jim Simmons wrote: > Gary, > > If it wasn't clear (because I started this discussion with Scotty > elsewhere) my idea was to put the ebooks, cover images, and Dublin > core catalog in a Zip file, then make an Activity that could read that > Zip file, generate a GUI catalo

Re: [Sugar-devel] New activity Graph

2009-07-24 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Xenofon, Hey looking good :-) One quick bit of UI feedback from watching the movie. The behaviour of your tabs is quite different to the rest of the current Sugar design. In Sugar the top tabs switch to different toolbars across the top of the screen with the main canvas staying the same

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-24 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 24 Jul 2009, at 15:21, Jim Simmons wrote: > Gary, > > I was thinking myself that enhancing Get Internet Archive Books to > deal with local zip files of books as well as the Internet would be a > possible approach. Currently GIAB produces and can be resumed from a > Journal entry but

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-24 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 25 Jul 2009, at 02:24, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 23 Jul 2009, at 21:36, Jim Simmons wrote: >> >>> Gary, >>> >>> What Scotty wants is a listing that can be easily browsed, an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Buddy Tagging (Was: GPA Goals Status)

2009-07-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 25 Jul 2009, at 03:01, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 21 Jul 2009, at 23:51, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Gary C Martin >>> wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 25 Jul 2009, at 05:02, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:53:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> >> The term "content bundles" is still pretty wooly for me. Are we >> talking zip files, perhaps with some formal structure? > > Obj

Re: [Sugar-devel] Buddy Tagging (Was: GPA Goals Status)

2009-07-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 25 Jul 2009, at 11:12, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Eben, Gary, can you summarize your thoughts on this proposal? > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tagging_Proposal > > Do you think it's worth implementing as-is? Do you think we should > instead tackle first real groups? Or maybe the "taggin

Re: [Sugar-devel] Buddy Tagging (Was: GPA Goals Status)

2009-07-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 25 Jul 2009, at 16:26, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Gary C > Martin wrote: >> >> OK, so I'd suggest my 1) above description of self tagging (a >> personal >> profile), replaces the use cases for "Open groups&qu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleksey, On 25 Jul 2009, at 17:02, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >> Hi Aleksey, >> >> On 25 Jul 2009, at 05:02, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:53:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

2009-07-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 26 Jul 2009, at 20:16, Eben Eliason wrote: > I've always envisioned a "Bundle" activity which is a glorified > tar/zip/other-bundle-format viewing and creation tool. With Bundle, it > would be possible to open any such file in the Journal (including > activity bundles, of course) to view its co

Re: [Sugar-devel] Why am I so popular?

2009-07-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 26 Jul 2009, at 21:43, Bastien wrote: > Jim Simmons writes: > >> 1). Bastien's Read Etexts video became an Internet sensation. Hey, >> he did a nice job! > > My video has been viewed only 10 times so far, so you can drop this > interpretation :) So how do you know those 10 times didn't each

Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal to delete Platform field from ASLO

2009-07-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Jul 2009, at 06:31, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > At the present moment 99% of all activities use "All" platform. > I think we could use only "Sugar Platform" field. > > In case of activities like Measure(which has XO specific code and > works > only on XO) we can mark all these activit

Re: [Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 27 Jul 2009, at 15:29, Jim Simmons wrote: > Caroline and Bastien, > > What might work to show how many books are available is to do a search > on the word "boy" and another on the word "girl", then maybe "oz" and > "jules verne". Any one of these should return lots of titles. You > might also

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