Re: [sugar] July 31 - Sucrose 0.81.6 Tarballs Due

2008-07-31 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mercredi 30 juillet 2008 à 19:25 +0200, Simon Schampijer a écrit :
 Dear maintainers,
 
 the next development release is tomorrow the 31th July. Please provide source 
 code 
 tarballs by the end of tomorrow for the following modules:

Not code change in sugar-presence-service since 0.81.4.


G.

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[sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

2008-07-31 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:42, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Any follow-up on the idea of having a precise list of maintainers for
 all Sugar activities?  Even just the email address from the git repo
 would be nice.

I've raised the idea a couple of times to have a mailing list
specifically for activity developers, which would be uncluttered by
all the traffic on the devel and even sugar lists. That would
hopefully have the result that people stay subscribed, or at least
notice mails which are important to them.

Currently, I'm not even sure which list out of devel and sugar is
going to reach more activity developers, hence this cross-post and
many others.

There are a bunch of issues I'm aware of which need to be communicated
clearly and widely:

* A lot of activities need updating. There are a good number of us who
can help, if we can get the attention of the original / most recent
maintainers/authors. We would be willing to do new releases, and we
will do so (technically forking) without their help if we don't get
their attention.

* There is a new activity updater in the control panel in joyride.
There is a certain procedure to provide specific versions of the
activity for specific builds, so that (future) stable builds get a
certain version available, whereas development builds can get other
versions of the activity. The exact procedures around that need to be
communicated, in such a way that a significant number of activity
developers *do* them.

* It would be great to have a specific procedure for someone to say I
developed this activity, I don't have time to maintain it against
future releases, it's available for someone to take over. I suspect
several interesting activities are in this position.

* We need a way to communicate API changes, new resources, etc to
activity developers without this getting lost in the noise of the
existing lists. We need a way to get clear feedback on these without
getting swamped by non activity developers.

* We need to make it easier for new activity developers to get up to
speed without having to wade through information they don't need.

I am happy to take on making this communication happen but I really
think we need this list.

I know it's yet another mailing list, but I think it will help make
our communication more focussed and effective.

I'm adding this to the agenda of today's (tonight's for me) Sugar
development meeting. Please comment here in advance of the meeting, or
come to the meeting for a more immediate discussion.

Morgan
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Browse 94

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/web-activity/Browse-94.tar.bz2
bundled: http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/Browse-94.xo

= Closed tickets =
* #6825 Problems with email webfrontend www.adinet.com.uy

= Testcases =
#6825

Send an email using the adinet.com.uy site. Make sure to test as well
that attaching a document (photo) does work.


Translation updates:
- Dutch
- Telugu

---
A dependency of Browse is hulahop which latest version 0.4.3 can be found here:

sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/hulahop/hulahop-0.4.3.tar.bz2

= Closed tickets =
* #7645 Browse loses on comcast.net
* #7530 google gears fail to register as a component in Browse

= Testcases =
#7645 Open browse and load the page comcast.net; the page should be able to
load


Best,
Simon
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Re: [sugar] Sugar mtg reminder, 31rd July 2008 --- 17.00 UTC --- irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting

2008-07-31 Thread Morgan Collett
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 19:32, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 topics are:

 * Update of the week (e.g. process changes)
 * Roadmap
 * Status of bugfixing
 * introduction of new developers (optional)

Additional agenda items added:

* Proposal: Mailing list for activity developers:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-July/007503.html
* Activity Update system in control panel: Implications for activity
developers: How to publish releases

Regards
Morgan
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Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Edmund Sevior



-Original Message-
From: Eben Eliason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 2:29 AM
To: Tomeu Vizoso
Cc: Martin Edmund Sevior; Walter Bender; OLPC Development; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 
Chris Ball; Sugar Mailing List
Subject: Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO
 
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Martin Sevior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:50 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
  On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote:
   The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what
   text highlighting, SJ and I have recently (right before he left for
   Wikimania) been looking into getting similar functionality on the XO.
   Having this highlighting integrated with Write would be fantastic.
  
 
  OK Guys, I get the message :-) I'll look to see how this can be enabled
  by default in the most UI-easy way possible.
 
 
  OK Guys,
 Your wish is my command.
 
  See:
 
  http://msevior.livejournal.com/2008/07/29/

 Awesome, anybody would like to expose this functionality in Write?
 Should be quite easy, but may involve adding API to abiwidget.


The original mockups for Write have been waiting for this moment to arrive.
For the reference of any who dare to take on the task (The button being
clicked is a Highlight text by author button):
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Activity_write_view.jpg


Thanks Tomeu and Eben. Yes, we'll need to expand the abiwidget api. I'll look 
to do this if I can can get sugar-jhbuild to work again.

BTW for those who recommend we abandon sugar-jhbuild, I definitely disagree. 
You definitely always want the fastest machine you can get for development work 
and for all it's problems, sugar-jhbuild gives the best way to get an up to the 
second snapshot of the development trees everywhere.

Of course activities require regular testing on the xo hardware, which is now 
much more available. After I tried out Write on a B2 back in 2007 I realised 
that many speedups and optimizations were needed to get decent performance.

Martin Sevior



 Thanks a lot,

 Tomeu
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Re: [sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:47:56AM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:42, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Any follow-up on the idea of having a precise list of maintainers for
  all Sugar activities?  Even just the email address from the git repo
  would be nice.
 
[...]
 * We need to make it easier for new activity developers to get up to
 speed without having to wade through information they don't need.
 
 I am happy to take on making this communication happen but I really
 think we need this list.

I think this is a good idea too, especially given that you're
motivated to do it.

 Morgan

Martin

PS - I'd say +1 but please remember
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/125203.html



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[sugar] Sugar Labs meeting reminder

2008-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
We will have a Sugar Labs meeting tomorrow (Friday, August 1) at
14:00UTC, irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting (Please note the time
change).

The tentative agenda is below (and at
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/OversightBoard/Minutes#Friday_1_August_2008_-_14.00_.28UTC.29):

Topic: Administrative

* Review minutes from last meeting
* Set next meeting date
* Set date for election
   ** Solicit candidates for election

Topic: Infrastructure status

* Hardware
* Hosting
* etc.

Topic: Key issues

* Engineering
  o Stability
  o QA
  o Updates
  o growing the community of contributors
* Learning
  o Outreach
  o Feedback
  o growing the community of contributors

-walter
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[sugar] Reviews report

2008-07-31 Thread Release Team
= New requests =

Control panel sugar theme infelicities.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7641

= Approved requests =

Can not set title in the journal
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7718

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Re: [sugar] joyride-weekly: joyride-2230

2008-07-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg

On 31.07.2008, at 02:41, Michael Stone wrote:

 Dear world,

 This week's 'please test this joyride' is joyride-2230. Test group
 release notes, care of Charlie, are available at

   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ 
 Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_Joyride_2230


olpc-update thinks that build does not exist.

- Bert -


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[sugar] Notes from 7/29 Release Meeting(s)

2008-07-31 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
 1. We're going to begin nominating this week's 'joyride-weekly' tomorrow at
 0900 EDT. If you have risky changes you want to contribute, please provide 
 them
 _after_ we deliver our nomination. If you want to help more peoples' changes
 make the deadline, then please help smoke-test joyrides built close to the
 deadline. Please record your results on
 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes
 
 and file bugs liberally. When we deliver the build nomination, we will
 summarize the currently available testing notes in the announcement mail.

This looks to be focussed on the wide testing of proposed changes.

If you also want to wring out agreed-upon changes, why not every 
week create a new build version in the '8.2' stream?  Then anyone 
who wants to verify how things behave in the latest 8.2 candidate 
can test that version.

mikus

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Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
 It's not that important anyway.  It just occurred to me that the
 dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by
 delivering a set of default activities.  I'm not aware of any 
 software distribution drawing such a strong line between the 
 core system and the applications/activities.
 

We have been managing the dependency issue by ensuring that the 'core'
activities required for a given build all work on the system-level
software packages we include.  To my knowledge this verification has
been done manually.  We could better share our efforts by working to
make sure that a given activity simply lists the correct set of
dependencies, pushing this data to a package repository, and supporting
deployments as they cherry-pick their requirements from it to construct
new images and push their products back into it.

The separation between system and application-level software is a core
roadblock in our integration of more intelligent package management
policies.  How can an isolated user-level package management application
be allowed to modify system-level, shared, code that will affect other
applications from which it is supposed to be isolated?  A unification of
system and application-level software package management thus violates
our security model.

The user-level application isolation required by this security model
serves to enable easier code sharing between children.  It also makes it
easier for sysadmins to accept the use of relatively untested software
packages on the XO.  We can probably all agree that the separation
between system and application software is useful for security and the
execution of untrusted code.  Can we reasonably work around this
distinction to allow the management of both sets of software as one
whole?


Erik
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Re: [sugar] joyride-weekly: joyride-2230

2008-07-31 Thread Gary C Martin
On 31 Jul 2008, at 14:44, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

 On 31.07.2008, at 15:14, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

 On 31.07.2008, at 02:41, Michael Stone wrote:

 Dear world,

 This week's 'please test this joyride' is joyride-2230. Test group
 release notes, care of Charlie, are available at

 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/
 Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_Joyride_2230


 olpc-update thinks that build does not exist.


 The error actually is unexpected server greeting: fakeroot

Glad it's not just me then. I thought I had some random intermittent  
network issue (for the last week or two) so had given up with olpc- 
updates rsync attempts to the server. I defaulted back to manually  
downloading the .toc and .usb files from the web server, sticking them  
on a USB stick and using olpc-update --usb.

--Gary

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Re: [sugar] joyride-weekly: joyride-2230

2008-07-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg

On 31.07.2008, at 17:59, Gary C Martin wrote:

 On 31 Jul 2008, at 14:44, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

 On 31.07.2008, at 15:14, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

 On 31.07.2008, at 02:41, Michael Stone wrote:

 Dear world,

 This week's 'please test this joyride' is joyride-2230. Test group
 release notes, care of Charlie, are available at

 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/
 Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_Joyride_2230


 olpc-update thinks that build does not exist.


 The error actually is unexpected server greeting: fakeroot

 Glad it's not just me then. I thought I had some random intermittent  
 network issue (for the last week or two) so had given up with olpc- 
 updates rsync attempts to the server. I defaulted back to manually  
 downloading the .toc and .usb files from the web server, sticking  
 them on a USB stick and using olpc-update --usb.


SOmeone fixed it. I updated to 2233 just fine.

- Bert -


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[sugar] Fwd: Art In All of Us game, identifying childrens' country of origin

2008-07-31 Thread Samuel Klein
An update:

Anthony Asael, of the awesome artinallofus project, has a
nationality-guessing game with photos of children that could be generalized
so that people can submit their own photosets...
you can see the current flash app here:

http://artinallofus.org/artimages/admin/plugins/quiz_eng/quiz.php

If anyone is interested in helping out with a sugarizatoin, or just a
generalization that lets children choose their own photosets, you can get in
touch with simon suh : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cheers,
SJ

-- Forwarded message --
From: Anthony Asael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Subject: RE: Art In All of Us -- OLPC
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Hi !

I am definitely open to more images. We have a 160,000+ number of images
from 175+ countries. We have infinite options to have the kids entertain AND
learn !
I think it is also a pretty simple game to develop for a developer. Does the
OLPC have somebody in their team to help in that ?

Best,

Anthony


-Mensaje original-
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: 29 July 2008 18:56
Para: Samuel Klein
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Seth Woodworth
Asunto: Re: Art In All of Us -- OLPC

Anthony is probably open to it, but in the end the installed games have a
static image set. To start it might be better to use a generic imageset
that works in most situations, just to keep it simple. Otherwise, different
imageset or versions of the games would increase complexity. How about we
start with a simple implementation and then move towards more options
later...if there is popularity. What do you think?

Simon

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:51:11 -0400, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The country qiuz is great . Are there other imagesets?  Can people
suggest
 their own imagesets from their photos or from your archive?

 SJ

 On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Samuel,
 There are a lot of technical developments in discussion stages right
 now.
 However what you ask about requires a platform that we don't have: it
 entails upload capabilities that we can't support from a hardware or
 personnel standpoint. Then again, if its something as simple as a
 variation
 of the existing photo game, then there are some more immediate
 possibilities.
 Regarding the developer, he's still around but on a holiday vacation. In
 the meantime, please respond with some feedback on the games. If it's
 compatible with 'Sugar' are we ready to distribute?
 Thanks for all of your assistance.
 Simon

 On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:19:47 -0400, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  Also, regarding online / offline versions of the art in all of us
 game,
 do
  you have games in the works for helping children capture images and
  writing
  in a way that you would be interested in posting/hosting online?
 
  SJ
 
  On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hello Simon (and Anthony)!
 
  Here's a page describing how to emulate the Sugar environment on your
  windows (or other) machine:
  wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulation
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Sugar-artwork 0.81.3

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: 
http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.81.3.tar.bz2

- Add emblem-downlaods to the theme
- Fix text color on white background
- Add a special case for the SugarSectionView as it has a white background

Best,
Simon
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[sugar] [RELEASE] sugar-datastore 0.8.4

2008-07-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all,

get the new datastore release from:

http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.8.4.tar.bz2

We have just one fix:

#7234 Request all the results so we get an accurate entry count.

Regards,

Tomeu
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Sugar-base 0.81.3

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: 
http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.81.3.tar.bz2

- Make logger safe to full disk
- translation updates

Best,
Simon
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Journal 96

2008-07-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all,

a new Journal has been release, get it here:

http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/journal-activity/journal-activity-96.tar.bz2

Changes:

- #5907 resume activity when preview is clicked (Daniel Drake)
- Dutch translation update (Myckel)
- Telugu translation update (Satya)
- Spanish translation update (Rafael Ortiz)
- #7600 Discard palette when the jobject changes (Tomeu Vizoso)
- Mongolian translation update (Odon)
- #7718 Fix set title (Simon Schampijer)

Thanks all!

Tomeu
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Chat 44

2008-07-31 Thread Morgan Collett
I've release Chat-44, available at:

http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/chat-activity/Chat-44.tar.bz2
http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-44.xo

NEWS:

44

* #7633: Close the text channel when stopping a 1-1 chat (morgs)
* #7717: Log incoming messages (morgs)
* #7692: Don't show pending messages when joining a chat (morgs)
* Updated translations: nl, te, es, mn

Regards
Morgan
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Re: [sugar] [RELEASE] Chat 44

2008-07-31 Thread Bryan Kearney
Morgan:

The MANIFEST file lists several files under locale which are not in the 
package. Where should those be found?

-- bk


Morgan Collett wrote:
 I've release Chat-44, available at:
 
 http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/chat-activity/Chat-44.tar.bz2
 http://dev.laptop.org/~morgan/bundles/Chat-44.xo
 
 NEWS:
 
 44
 
 * #7633: Close the text channel when stopping a 1-1 chat (morgs)
 * #7717: Log incoming messages (morgs)
 * #7692: Don't show pending messages when joining a chat (morgs)
 * Updated translations: nl, te, es, mn
 
 Regards
 Morgan
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Terminal 14

2008-07-31 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello,

I have released Terminal 14, available at
http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/terminal-activity/Terminal-14.tar.bz2
http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/terminal/Terminal-14.xo

NEWS
14

* Translation updates for Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Mongolian and Telugu


Thanks,
Sayamindu



-- 
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[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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[sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread pgf
is it intentional that the currently-connected network is no
longer differentiated in the neighborhood view?  the outer ring
of that network icon used to be white -- it no longer is.

it's been pointed out that you can see your current network on
the frame, but somehow that's not quite the same (to me).

i'm also not sure how to disconnect from that network -- there's no
disconnect option in the popup anymore.

i'll trac these if they're bugs -- but they might just be 
misunderstandings on my part.

paul
=-
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Sugar 0.81.8

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar/sugar-0.81.8.tar.bz2

There has been many translation updates in the last cycle! And the usual 
bugfixes...

= Closed tickets =

* #7248 Speaker device has inconsistent behavior
* #7625 alt+tab switching is slow because activities are notified unneccessary
* #7560 cp: Inconsistent behavior after changing the xo color
* #7641 Control panel sugar theme infelicities.
* #6136 No feedback from 'register' request.

= Testcases =

#7248

7248.0: Show the speaker icon and click on the slider/adjustment widget
to the left of its handle. It should move an amount to the left and
stop. Start an application playing that generates sound, so the volume
changes in subsequent tests can be verified.

|TestCase|

7248.1: Show the speaker icon and click on the slider/adjustment widget
to the left of its handle until the handle is more than halfway to the
left. The icon should display as partially, but not entirely, full.

|TestCase|

7248.1: Show the speaker icon and click on the slider/adjustment widget
to the left of its handle until it is most of the way to the left. The
icon should display as mostly, but not entirely, empty.

|TestCase|

7248.1: Show the speaker icon and move the slider/adjustment widget's
handle all the way to the left. The icon should become white and the
Mute text  icon should change to Unmute.

|TestCase|

7248.1: Show the speaker icon and move the slider/adjustment widget's
handle all the way to the left. The icon should become white and the
Mute text  icon should change to Unmute. Now move the handle to the
right one increment (by clicking or the right arrow key). The icon
should become un-white and the Unmute text  icon should change to
Mute.

|TestCase|

7248.2: Show the speaker icon and click Mute. The icon should become
white and the Mute text  icon should change to Unmute.

|TestCase|

7248.2: Show the speaker icon and click Mute. The icon should become
white and the Mute text  icon should change to Unmute. Hide the
speaker icon. Show it again. The icon should remain white and with the
Unmute text/icon shown. Repeat hiding and showing the icon three (3)
times.

|TestCase|

7248.3: Show the speaker icon and move its slider's handle to somewhere
near the middle. Click Mute. The icon should become white and the
Mute text  icon should change to Unmute. Now move the
slider/adjustment widget's handle to the left or right and the icon
should become un-white and the Unmute text  icon should change to
Mute.

|TestCase|

7248.4: Show the speaker icon and note its slider/adjustment's handle's
position. Press the XO volume up and volume down keys (F8, F9, IIRC) a
few times to verify that those keys affect the slider.


#7248

7248.4: Show the speaker icon and note how full it is. Press the XO
volume up and volume down keys (F8, F9, IIRC) a few times to verify that
those keys affect the fullness.

|TestCase|

7248.4: Show the speaker icon's popup menu and lower the volume slider.
Close the popup menu. Press the XO increase volume/volume up button.
Bring up the popup menu. Verify the slider has moved higher.


#7248

Set the volume to less than 100%. The icon should not be full.


#7625

Start some activities and switch between them. Switching should be
reasonably fast. Activities should only do something, if their window is
raised. (eg. the Microphone LED will not turn on when one tabs over
Measure activity anymore.)


#7560

Open 'aboutme' section in the control panel. After modifying one option
(e.g. nick) hit the valid button. You will be prompted with an alert
that states that a sugar restart is needed. It should only have a
'cancel' and a 'restart now' button.
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Sugar-toolkit 0.81.8

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: 
http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.81.8.tar.bz2

There has been many translation updates in the last cycle! And the usual 
bugfixes...


* #7566 sugar-shell enters in infinite loop after a failed shutdown
* #7534 Safer to always install, rather than comparing versions
* #7494 Updates to Browse-92 fail.

= Testcases =

#7566

Start sugar, log into a console session, shutdown from the sugar home
page (hover the XO guy in the home and click shutdown in the palette).
Start terminal. Go back to the text console and check with top that
sugar CPU usage is normal.


#7534

Download, install, and run attached clock activity. Right click. Arabic
numerals should appear on the clock.

Download, install, and run attached OtherClock activity. Right click.
Roman numerals should appear on the clock. If arabic numerals appear,
the second activity silently failed.
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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 is it intentional that the currently-connected network is no
 longer differentiated in the neighborhood view?  the outer ring
 of that network icon used to be white -- it no longer is.


This is intentional.  The colors of the stroke/fill serve as the visual
representation of the identity of the network; changing them effectively
strips this identity.  The new design does not make any indication of which
network is presently associated in the Neighborhood view; perhaps we can
find an alternative method.  Thoughts?


 it's been pointed out that you can see your current network on
 the frame, but somehow that's not quite the same (to me).


Yes, that's the preferred model.  The Frame serves as a perpetual status
element, and is instantly accessible no matter where you are within the
UI.  I'm open to improvements on the model.

i'm also not sure how to disconnect from that network -- there's no
 disconnect option in the popup anymore.


Well, that's a bug, but not really.  The problem is that there is no
notion of disconnect in network manager at all.  The old behavior used to
switch into mesh mode, which disassociated with the network itself.
 However, we now have a more direct means of accomplishing this, via turning
the mesh device on or off explicitly.  It doesn't make sense to compound
these.  The more conventional option is something like turn wireless off
to disassociate with the current network, but that assumes that there is no
other potential use for the wireless at all. In our case we still have the
mesh to worry about, so that again doesn't map onto our circumstances.

- Eben
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Re: [sugar] [RELEASE] Chat 44

2008-07-31 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 21:03, Bryan Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Morgan:

 The MANIFEST file lists several files under locale which are not in the
 package. Where should those be found?

In the .xo, I don't see anything in MANIFEST in locale which isn't
actually there - could you be more specific?

Thanks
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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:23:47PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
 The new design does not make any indication of which
 network is presently associated in the Neighborhood view; perhaps we can
 find an alternative method.  Thoughts?

Perhaps the currently-associated network's icon can appear below the
XO icon, as the Journal does initially in the Home view.

 i'm also not sure how to disconnect from that network -- there's no
  disconnect option in the popup anymore.
 
 
 Well, that's a bug, but not really.  The problem is that there is no
 notion of disconnect in network manager at all.

cjb suggested to me on IRC that Disconnect/Turn Off (for
wireless/mesh, respectively) could just cut power to the radio.  I
then suggested that this would work if the restoration of power was
quick enough that switching to the Neighborhood view could power back
on the radio and update the icons in some acceptable lag.

I have implemented[1] and tested this behavior (as part, but not a
necessary part, of #6995) and I believe it fast enough for further
investigation and testing.  The only problem is that it's very
cumbersome to bring back up the msh0 interface correctly, and would
require some code changes in a variety of places in sugar.

This problem (and it affects Extreme power mode too) is
recorded in #7690.

  The old behavior used to
 switch into mesh mode, which disassociated with the network itself.

This is much less desirable than powering off the wireless, IMO.

  However, we now have a more direct means of accomplishing this, via turning
 the mesh device on or off explicitly.

This is spec'd but subject to #7690, IIUC.

 - Eben

Martin


1. Some example entry points:

wlan_radio.py: 
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/sugar;a=blob;f=src/hardware/wlan_radio.py;h=47b70474fe503e90d74c4aecf5ed4cd1992f8412;hb=4a455159e61ac2ce1ed47059dccf5a8ba18ebd80
MeshBox.py changes (last last diff block):
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/sugar;a=commitdiff;h=4a455159e61ac2ce1ed47059dccf5a8ba18ebd80


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[sugar] [RELEASE] Read 48

2008-07-31 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello,
I have released Read version 48, which can be downloaded from
http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/read-activity/Read-48.tar.bz2
http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/bundles/read/Read-48.xo

NEWS

48

* Translation updates


Thanks,
Sayamindu



-- 
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[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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[sugar] [RELEASE] Pippy 23

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/pippy-activity/Pippy-23.tar.bz2
bundled: http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/0.81.6/Pippy-23.xo

- many great translations
- more sugar thanks

Best,
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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread pgf
eben wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   is it intentional that the currently-connected network is no
   longer differentiated in the neighborhood view?  the outer ring
   of that network icon used to be white -- it no longer is.
  
  
  This is intentional.  The colors of the stroke/fill serve as the visual
  representation of the identity of the network; changing them effectively
  strips this identity.  The new design does not make any indication of which
  network is presently associated in the Neighborhood view; perhaps we can
  find an alternative method.  Thoughts?

i get the color thing, though those colors are all arbitrary,
right?  but i guess you can say connect to the green/orange
network as a means of identification, and if the ring is white,
you can't do that.  but it still feels like the connected network
should be special in that view.  maybe little radio waves
emanating from it or something.  :-)

  
   it's been pointed out that you can see your current network on
   the frame, but somehow that's not quite the same (to me).
  
  
  Yes, that's the preferred model.  The Frame serves as a perpetual status
  element, and is instantly accessible no matter where you are within the
  UI.  I'm open to improvements on the model.

it wasn't until charlie came over and showed me the icon in the frame
that i'd had the frame up at all today.  but it's certainly a good place
to go for status information.

  
  i'm also not sure how to disconnect from that network -- there's no
   disconnect option in the popup anymore.
  
  
  Well, that's a bug, but not really.  The problem is that there is no
  notion of disconnect in network manager at all.  The old behavior used to
  switch into mesh mode, which disassociated with the network itself.
   However, we now have a more direct means of accomplishing this, via turning
  the mesh device on or off explicitly.  It doesn't make sense to compound

i'm not sure what you mean by turning the mesh device on or off explicitly,
at least in terms of the current UI.  is that the Radio: checkbox in the
Network control panel?

  these.  The more conventional option is something like turn wireless off
  to disassociate with the current network, but that assumes that there is no
  other potential use for the wireless at all. In our case we still have the
  mesh to worry about, so that again doesn't map onto our circumstances.

i guess i'm thinking of it in traditional terms.  if i'm browsing
available nets, i might connect to a network by mistake, and want to
disconnect without necessarily connecting to something else, and now
it feels (rightly or wrongly) like i can't do that.  i guess it's not
very important, though.

paul

  
  - Eben

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Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-31 Thread J.M. Maurer

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:37 +1000, Martin Edmund Sevior wrote:
 
 Thanks Tomeu and Eben. Yes, we'll need to expand the abiwidget api.
 I'll look to do this if I can can get sugar-jhbuild to work again.

That, or we could just add an 'EditMethod', so we can invoke it using a
'well known' function name. Not sure what the nicest approach is. I'm
inclined to expand the api though.

  Marc

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[sugar] Sugar mtg minutes, 31th July 2008

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
Notes  full logs: 
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Meetings#Thursday_July_31_2008_-_17.00_.28UTC.29

= Update =
The usual bugfixing for the upcoming release. Morgs and david spoke with the 
ubuntu 
and debian people in order to get the packaging processes going so potential 
developers have something to look at. Walter has been in discussion with GNOME 
and 
a few education groups - more on those topics in tomorrows sugarlabs meeting: 
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-July/007508.html

= Roadmap =
action items:
* need to form triage squad
* need to form testing team
* keep trac under control so that we have a good view of where we are
* make sure to get the new release in Fedora
* write down the points for the 9.1 release

= Status of bugfixing =
we need more testing!

= Introducing the new developers =
Maybe next week :)

= Move meeting to an earlier time =
The next meeting will be at 14.00 UTC

= Proposal: Mailing list for activity developers =
Will be discussed next week or via the mailing lists

= Activity Update system in control panel =
Will be discussed next week or via the mailing lists

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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 eben wrote:
   On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
is it intentional that the currently-connected network is no
longer differentiated in the neighborhood view?  the outer ring
of that network icon used to be white -- it no longer is.
   
  
   This is intentional.  The colors of the stroke/fill serve as the visual
   representation of the identity of the network; changing them effectively
   strips this identity.  The new design does not make any indication of
 which
   network is presently associated in the Neighborhood view; perhaps we can
   find an alternative method.  Thoughts?

 i get the color thing, though those colors are all arbitrary,
 right?  but i guess you can say connect to the green/orange
 network as a means of identification, and if the ring is white,
 you can't do that.  but it still feels like the connected network
 should be special in that view.  maybe little radio waves
 emanating from it or something.  :-)


They're arbitrary, but the colors are chosen as a hash of the essid, which
makes them consistently arbitrary.  Your favorite network will always be the
same colors, and a given network will be the same colors on everyone's
machine.  It's just a hint of an identifier, but it's a lot better than
nothing.


  
it's been pointed out that you can see your current network on
the frame, but somehow that's not quite the same (to me).
   
  
   Yes, that's the preferred model.  The Frame serves as a perpetual status
   element, and is instantly accessible no matter where you are within
 the
   UI.  I'm open to improvements on the model.

 it wasn't until charlie came over and showed me the icon in the frame
 that i'd had the frame up at all today.  but it's certainly a good place
 to go for status information.


I hope that the Frame will see much more use as a result of the redesign;
it's meant to be a crucial interface element, but until now hasn't had much
utility.  It will help when the notification system is integrated, since the
act of connecting to a network will invoke a pulsing network icon in the
corner of the screen, which will then slide into the Frame as a hint at
where to go to find it later.


  
   i'm also not sure how to disconnect from that network -- there's no
disconnect option in the popup anymore.
   
  
   Well, that's a bug, but not really.  The problem is that there is no
   notion of disconnect in network manager at all.  The old behavior used
 to
   switch into mesh mode, which disassociated with the network itself.
However, we now have a more direct means of accomplishing this, via
 turning
   the mesh device on or off explicitly.  It doesn't make sense to compound

 i'm not sure what you mean by turning the mesh device on or off
 explicitly,
 at least in terms of the current UI.  is that the Radio: checkbox in the
 Network control panel?


There has been lots of confusion about the difference between mesh and APs.
 They're really not the same at all, apart from the fact that they both
depend on the radio.  The new design no longer treats the mesh channels as
objects in the Neighborhood view.  Instead, there will be (is? not sure if
the patch landed yet) a mesh device in the Frame, which you can turn on (and
off?) at whim.

  these.  The more conventional option is something like turn wireless
 off
   to disassociate with the current network, but that assumes that there is
 no
   other potential use for the wireless at all. In our case we still have
 the
   mesh to worry about, so that again doesn't map onto our circumstances.

 i guess i'm thinking of it in traditional terms.  if i'm browsing
 available nets, i might connect to a network by mistake, and want to
 disconnect without necessarily connecting to something else, and now
 it feels (rightly or wrongly) like i can't do that.  i guess it's not
 very important, though.


I'm trying to point out that your assumption isn't actually true.  I'm not
aware of a disconnect option which strictly disconnects from the current
network.  Instead, there is usually a turn off my ability to connect to any
network, disconnecting from the current one in the process option.  This
isn't what we want, because one may want to disconnect from a network but
remain on the mesh.

- Eben
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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:23:47PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
  The new design does not make any indication of which
  network is presently associated in the Neighborhood view; perhaps we can
  find an alternative method.  Thoughts?

 Perhaps the currently-associated network's icon can appear below the
 XO icon, as the Journal does initially in the Home view.


Could be tricky, since (hopefully soon) the view will be fixed so that the
current activity is beneath the XO, consistent with the Home view.  There
may be other options, though.



  i'm also not sure how to disconnect from that network -- there's no
   disconnect option in the popup anymore.
  
 
  Well, that's a bug, but not really.  The problem is that there is no
  notion of disconnect in network manager at all.

 cjb suggested to me on IRC that Disconnect/Turn Off (for
 wireless/mesh, respectively) could just cut power to the radio.  I
 then suggested that this would work if the restoration of power was
 quick enough that switching to the Neighborhood view could power back
 on the radio and update the icons in some acceptable lag.


Again, I don't think this is really the desired semantic.  It's /almost/
right, and is the traditional means of achieving this, but that also turns
off the ability to be on the mesh, which isn't necessarily what one means by
disconnect from this AP.  They should be independent.  I realize this
isn't as crucial right now, since we can't be on both mesh and AP at the
same time, but in the future it's pretty clear that they need to be
orthogonal.

I have implemented[1] and tested this behavior (as part, but not a
 necessary part, of #6995) and I believe it fast enough for further
 investigation and testing.  The only problem is that it's very
 cumbersome to bring back up the msh0 interface correctly, and would
 require some code changes in a variety of places in sugar.


Interesting.



 This problem (and it affects Extreme power mode too) is
 recorded in #7690.

   The old behavior used to
  switch into mesh mode, which disassociated with the network itself.

 This is much less desirable than powering off the wireless, IMO.


I agree.  That's why there's no longer a disconnect option.  We thought it
was better to remove it until it has a proper semantic, rather than
implement it in a peculiar and not readily understandable way.

- Eben


   However, we now have a more direct means of accomplishing this, via
 turning
  the mesh device on or off explicitly.

 This is spec'd but subject to #7690, IIUC.

  - Eben

 Martin


 1. Some example entry points:

 wlan_radio.py:
 http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/sugar;a=blob;f=src/hardware/wlan_radio.py;h=47b70474fe503e90d74c4aecf5ed4cd1992f8412;hb=4a455159e61ac2ce1ed47059dccf5a8ba18ebd80
 MeshBox.pyhttp://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/sugar;a=blob;f=src/hardware/wlan_radio.py;h=47b70474fe503e90d74c4aecf5ed4cd1992f8412;hb=4a455159e61ac2ce1ed47059dccf5a8ba18ebd80MeshBox.pychanges
  (last last diff block):

 http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/sugar;a=commitdiff;h=4a455159e61ac2ce1ed47059dccf5a8ba18ebd80

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[sugar] Please help test our new weekly test build!

2008-07-31 Thread Michael Stone
We are thrilled to announce a new joyride-weekly test image,
joyride-2230, valid until Wednesday, August 6.

Please help test it according to the detailed instructions at

   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing

while we still have time to fix issues you might find!

Our specific interest this week is on activity compatibility: 

  Does your favorite activity still run on joyride-2230?

Currently known issues are recorded at: 

   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_Joyride_2230

New issues should be filed in our bug-tracking system (dev.laptop.org)
according to 

   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Submitting_bugs

or by notifying us by other means.

Thanks!

Michael
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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:42:26PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
 
  On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:23:47PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
   The new design does not make any indication of which
   network is presently associated in the Neighborhood view; perhaps we can
   find an alternative method.  Thoughts?
 
  Perhaps the currently-associated network's icon can appear below the
  XO icon, as the Journal does initially in the Home view.
 
 
 Could be tricky, since (hopefully soon) the view will be fixed so that the
 current activity is beneath the XO, consistent with the Home view.  There
 may be other options, though.

It could also be made bigger (for a while I kept patching my
MeshBox.py to make favorite icons bigger) than the others.  Or a
128/128/128 rgb ring could be drawn around it.

Well, you asked for ideas :).

  cjb suggested to me on IRC that Disconnect/Turn Off (for
  wireless/mesh, respectively) could just cut power to the radio.  I
  then suggested that this would work if the restoration of power was
  quick enough that switching to the Neighborhood view could power back
  on the radio and update the icons in some acceptable lag.
 
 
 Again, I don't think this is really the desired semantic.  It's /almost/
 right, and is the traditional means of achieving this, but that also turns
 off the ability to be on the mesh, which isn't necessarily what one means by
 disconnect from this AP.  They should be independent.  I realize this
 isn't as crucial right now, since we can't be on both mesh and AP at the
 same time, but in the future it's pretty clear that they need to be
 orthogonal.

I guess if they won't be independent for 8.1.2 it seems like it's
exactly the right thing to do - whether I'm on the mesh or the AP, if
I want to disconnect from the wireless and connect to the mesh I just
hit the mesh channel in the mesh palette, so if I select disconnect
I don't want to do that and thus have no use for the radio; and
if I disconnect from the mesh I definitely don't need an AP (if I did,
I would've chosen it).

We thought about just doing a NetworkManager sleep, but then, well,
again, what is the radio then good for barring drawing 1W of power :)?


  This problem (and it affects Extreme power mode too) is
  recorded in #7690.
 
The old behavior used to
   switch into mesh mode, which disassociated with the network itself.
 
  This is much less desirable than powering off the wireless, IMO.
 
 
 I agree.  That's why there's no longer a disconnect option.  We thought it
 was better to remove it until it has a proper semantic, rather than
 implement it in a peculiar and not readily understandable way.

Again, Disconnect and turn off the wireless and mesh
(respectively) seem to have quite intuitive semantics (to those not
familiar with MPP usage): turn off the radio, since I don't want to
use what it's providing (wireless or mesh connectivity). 

 - Eben

Martin


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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread FFM
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:13:23PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
 Again, Disconnect and turn off the wireless and mesh
 (respectively) seem to have quite intuitive semantics (to those not
 familiar with MPP usage): turn off the radio, since I don't want to
 use what it's providing (wireless or mesh connectivity). 
 
 Martin

That'll work as long as there isn't a noticable delay when visiting the network 
view (time between 
viewing and network survey)

-FFM
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Re: [sugar] current network differentiation?

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:26:52PM -0400, FFM wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:13:23PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:

  [...] turn off the radio [...]
 
 That'll work as long as there isn't a noticable delay when visiting the 
 network view (time between 
 viewing and network survey)

Exactly[1].  I believe it could easily be fast enough to detect APs,
but I'm not sure about joining a mesh (because I've never joined one
and I don't know how it feels vis-a-vis AP scanning - which is fast).

I believe (on vague memory) that NM only scans for APs every so often
(20s? 40s?), so even what we're showing people now might be a bit
inaccurate; in which case, to be sneaky[2], we could just leave all
the icons in the MeshBox as-is when we disconnect, and then the user
would see them all update one or so second later when the radio and NM
came back online.

Alternately, some UI could be introduced in the Mesh view (think like
the Journal is empty or Journal shows no matching items) to
indicate that the radio was coming back online.

 -FFM

Martin



1. 
 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Martin Dengler wrote: 
 I then suggested that this would work if the restoration of power
 was quick enough that switching to the Neighborhood view could power
 back on the radio and update the icons in some acceptable lag.



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Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-07-31 Thread Kimberley Quirk
I don't think we want it to auto launch, but perhaps it should be the  
first icon on the left.


Thoughts on that?

Kim

On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Eben Eliason wrote:

My personal opinion on the matter is that we shouldn't be doing the  
launch automatically, but others are welcome to disagree. =)  I  
think the presence of a nice, clean, question mark icon on the Home  
screen after boot will be plenty for those that want to jump into  
help right away, and instilling the Home zoom level as just what it  
is -- Home -- is equally important.  Particularly because of the  
fullscreen nature of the activities (and the new launcher itself), I  
actually think it would be more disorienting to be driven directly  
into the help activity.


I'm not sure the decision was finalized, as the ticket you worked  
from didn't make it clear one way or the other.  Thanks for your  
hard work, either way!


-  Eben


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Bobby Powers  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I think the agreement when we met about this was to *not* autolaunch
 the activity. Eben?

that could certainly be.  it was a fun little project for an hour, and
I wasn't aware a decision was reached on whether or not to autolaunch
it.

bobby

 Marco

 On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Bobby Powers  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,

 after talking with Seth this evening, I whipped together a small  
patch
 (against the current git heads of sugar and sugar-toolkit) to  
launch
 an activity with the service name of org.laptop.Help on the first  
boot
 of the XO.  It checks the user profile for a field called  
'ShowHelp'
 in a category 'FirstBoot', which doesn't exist on the first  
launch.  I
 know this has been talked about for G1G1, does anyone have any  
better

 ideas of how to do this?


 yours,
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Re: [sugar] Random observations with joyride-2225 and latest activities

2008-07-31 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:05:18PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:

 On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 09:32 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

 a) Record: using v56 the activity starts up fine, the display shows
 whatever the camera is capturing, I can go into fullscreen-mode,
 switch to different tabs, etc. However once I press the
 capture-button the whole thing basically freezes, sometimes I was
 still able to move the mouse but clicking wouldn't have any impact, at
 other times Sugar completely froze and I had to do a hard reset of the
 XO.


 Your save-nand image loaded onto my XO just fine, but Record worked
 fine. Must be something hardware related. very odd.


 It could also be hardware independent but non-deterministic. Or
 deterministic but triggered under input that you didn't give.

 Michael


Hey guys,

thanks a lot for all the feedback.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to submit any tickets about the issues I
encountered as I've been busy with getting ready for flying back across the
pond. This has been somewhat painful due to by my flight being canceled
today thanks to strikes at Lufthansa. (Oh the fun of last-minute
re-booking)

Anyway, I hope to be back on speed by Tuesday or something and will submit
the respective tickets then.

Best regards,
Christoph

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Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed
 ctl-alt-erase in order to restart Sugar.  Both times. when Sugar
 came up, the Journal screen told me 'Your journal is empty'.

 If unwanted emptying of the Journal were to be experienced by
 others (in addition to me), then I think this problem should be a
 SERIOUS blocker to 8.2.

You might know this - but just in case and for others reading: if the
datastore fails to come up for any reason, the datastore storage dir
(~/.sugar/default/datastore) gets moved aside and a new one is
created. If you lost your journal this way, the files are in
~/.sugar/default/datastore.XXX .

It will be interesting to know why ds failed to come up and file it as
a bug if relevant. Do the logs in .sugar/default/logs say anything
interesting?

cheers,




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Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-07-31 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM, FFM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Maybe somewhere in the frame (forever, thus able to provide contextual
 assistance in the future), or as a throbbing icon on the home view (just
 for
 the first launch)?


All of our initial discussions on help focused around a contextual help
system, and I still hope that this is where we'll be taking this in the
future.  By embedding (?) icons within the secondary palette menus for
various devices, objects, activities, and even individual buttons and
controls, we can provide a way to launch into the help activity and dive
directly to the relevant info for the activity, control, etc. selected.  In
addition, I'd like to support a community driven help system by which, in
addition to the activity/olpc provided help, it's possible for kids to add
tips, tricks, images, tutorials, and other info to these sections for later
consumption by peers.

This is a noble, but ambitious goal, which is why a simple and static help
activity is the present solution, and why it's only integrated into the
system at a single point - the activity itself.

- Eben
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