Re: [IAEP] Sunflower for Science on XO
Hi Danny, Vincent Povrik created a Sugar-specific version of Wine. The .xo bundle and other information are available at http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine. You could use his bundle as a starting point for packaging your program. What toolkit does your software use for its user interface? I don't recognize the widgets, but if it's already Windows/Mac I wonder how hard a true Linux port would be. Best, -Wade On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Danny Kodicek da...@sunflowerlearning.com wrote: Hi there I just wanted to write to let people know we've been experimenting with some success with getting our Sunflower for Science product (www.sunflowerlearning.com) running on an XO. It's a Windows/Mac product but I've got it running through SugaredWine and it's looking very promising. I have a few questions that I wondered if anyone might be able to help with: 1) Screen resolution The biggest problem we have is that the screen res of the XO seems unnecessarily high and can't be changed. This leads to two big problems, one of readibility (which we can fix with a bit of work) and one of performance. Given the low spec of the machines, running full-screen animations, some of them in 3d, is pretty hard work for them at that resolution. Does anyone have any suggestions for ways to get round this issue? For example, I've been thinking about whether we could run the software at half-res and then use a screen magnifier app to bring it back to fullscreen 2) Launching and packaging Although SugaredWine is great, it would seem that a more sensible option would be to package the software together with Wine as a single activity that can be launched directly from a stick or installed as a .xo. Our product doesn't have an installer, although it does write to the Registry - anyone tried anything like this? I'm afraid I'm a total Linux novice, so any advice would be welcome, but if you could talk to me like a small child that would be very helpful :) Thanks Danny ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Feature Policy updated
On 11/27/2009 09:00 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:40:26PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: * Backup up by the community * The proposer of the feature has to get feedback from the community. This includes technical feedback, feedback from the deployments etc. See as well in the last paragraph about which points the community might care. Of course there will be some different opinions in the community - in general there should be more YES than NO in the community for a feature to be able to get into a Sugar release. This puts the burden of interacting with deployments on each individual feature proposer (but away from the core developers, which is a good thing). How is that supposed to happen (getting feedback from deployments)? Writing to iaep? What if nobody replies to those messages (e.g. because it doesn't matter to them either way), will the feature be rejected even if it's a good idea? (*) Yes, sending an email to sugar-devel - see here the section community consensus [1]. So deployments for example interested in the evolution of the Sugar platform should read sugar-devel and watch out for the [FEATURE] tag. Of course not only deployers are invited to comment. The idea is to have the submitter of a Feature taking care of getting the feedback. He is the one that knows best about the feature. It is good practice to interact with the community, too. The release manager is just there to make sure the process is done correctly. (*) Obviously good idea is quite subjective, but I assume you understand what I mean. I guess we have to use common sense for that. There are guidelines [2] what you should thinks about before proposing a feature. I hope we don't see dead ends often. If we do, we can create a board that solves such conflicts - like the oversight board (not sure if it is the same board or if it has to be a different one). Regards, Simon [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Propose_a_feature_for_addition_into_the_release_cycle [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Things_you_should_consider_when_proposing_a_feature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] sunjammer: machine reboot, Nov 29 15:00 EST
We need to perform a reboot of sunjammer.sugarlabs.org required to fix the nfs server. The service outage should protract for just a few minutes. Apologies for any inconvenience, -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] ASLO Reviews
Hi all, The download counts on activities.sugarlabs.org are very high, but the review counts are low. Typing Turtle [1] has nearly 50,000 downloads but only 2 reviews. Most reviews are from within the Sugar community; there aren't many from deployments. Is there something we could to do encourage users of activities.sugarlabs.org to write reviews? Are there teachers on this list who would be up for having their students review Sugar activities? Thanks, Wade [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4026 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [ASLO] [NOMINATION] Skype-1
I guess its another point for future policy[1] for ASLO editors, should we allow non-FOSS software on ASLO. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0500, Sugar Labs Activities wrote: New activity was nominated to be public. Name: Skype Version Number: 1 URL: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4247 Review Link: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/editors/review/29469 Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ ASLO mailing list a...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/aslo -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [ASLO] [NOMINATION] Skype-1
Hi, I guess its another point for future policy[1] for ASLO editors, should we allow non-FOSS software on ASLO. Even in the unlikely event that we decided to allow non-FOSS software on ASLO, we are legally unable to distribute Skype because its copyright license doesn't allow us to. The activity should be taken down immediately, for that reason. (Sorry, Marcos.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Non-technical Activity Library editors policy
Hi all, There were some threads in mailing lists last time about what activities could be approved to be public on Activity Library[1]. Well, some of these questions are very arguable, but the worst thing which could be is what we have now - lack on any definitions. So, I created a first version draft[1] for such policy (only non-technical reasons, for other cases, process is more or less clear[2]). I thing its a task for SLOB to approve such policy when its ready. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy/Non-Technical [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy#Additional_technical_policy_for_editors -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Help Activity on XO-1.5 [was: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5]
Hi Adam, On 29 Nov 2009, at 22:36, Holt wrote: Brian/Seth Sandy raised a critical issue on our Support call today-- how much work would it be to upgrade your great Help Activity from Sugar 0.82.1 to Sugar 0.84.x for the XO-1.5? And how can experienced Support people help Help (and learn learning ;) here? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_(activity) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Help Or would you dare ship the Help Activity as is? I may have missed some recent activity, but the last help activity I saw failed in 0.84 and up due to hulahop changes needed for underlying mozila changes. A version was patched (by Sayamindu I think) for olpc France to ship for a Madagascar (I think?) deployment: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr I'm guessing you could pick up from here and add new 0.84 content via some documentation sprint effort. Regards, --Gary ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
