On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Fab, thanks. Just given it a quick run though and it's booting fine here in a > VM on the Mac. Some quick notes (not aimed at you Wade, just of use to other > that may try this route): > > - Sound quality is more than a little crusty, but I think that is already a > known distro issue.
I managed to fix it in my F11 VM by tweaking a config file. I'll see if the same fix applies to the VM. > - Default collaboration server is set to jabber.sugarlabs.org, but not sure > how maintained it is, or what version it is running. The neighbourhood shows > many buddies with identical colours to me, indicating something is broken > (your owner colours are used by default on icons that are not getting the > correct colour information). Is there a better server to use? I think we would just need to throw a gconf line in the kickstart file. > - Without some VM hacking, VirtualBox displays Sugar in an 800x600 window. > The interface scales reasonably well, all things considered, but toolbars > often have missing widgets, or widgets in drop down overflow menus. Fonts are > also very large for an 800x600 view. Anyone know how to bake in the VirtualBox Guest Tools? Is there an RPM I can just add in? In my experience, they have to be compiled locally against whatever kernel you're running. > So, it is usable and testable for Sugar geeks/hackers with Macs, but I'd not > recommend it for real use by children as is. Yeah, definitely. I'll keep working on it though and hopefully these issues can be resolved. -Wade _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
