Re: [Sugar-devel] Sound in SoaS
Thanks Caroline and Bert: I tested the last SoaS-Beta and the sound from the speak activity is working perfectly, included the integration with the chat activity, but sadly the sound in Etoys not yet. I followed the Bert´s How to and I could achieve that Etoys make sounds. launch terminal activity type su to become root type pico /usr/bin/etoys to edit edit the line VMOPTIONS=-encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -xshm to have the -vm-sound-OSS option: VMOPTIONS=-encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -xshm -vm-sound-OSS press ctrl-x to exit, say Y to save Cheers Pato Acevedo www.patricioacevedo.blogspot.com _ Permanece actualizado con MSN Noticias. Clic aquí http://noticias.cl.msn.com/___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] GSoC proposal: Speech Synthesis
Hi ! For comments given on my proposal on google web app, I have given my response on my sugar wiki page and also on my discussion page. Please visit http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis Regards Chirag Jain ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] ANN: rainbow-0.8.4 release.
Folks,
I've put together a new rainbow release, rainbow-0.8.4,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow
http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/releases/SOURCES/rainbow-0.8.4.tar.bz2
with three tasty new features which I think you might enjoy.
New Features
1) support for reusing existing containers (uids)
(this should be particularly useful for sugar since it gives activities
persistent $HOME dirs where they may save their configuration.)
rainbow-run option: -r 10001
2) better data-sharing functionality through isolated topic dirs
(these are just groups and matching setgid group-writable directories
like movies or banking which have both owning uids and isolated uids
as their members -- think of sugar's per-bundle $SAR/data dirs)
rainbow-run option: -i movies -i banking
3) experimental support for generating nested Xephyr X servers
(mainly as a thought experiment)
rainbow-run option: -o xephyr
Quality
---
This code is NOT KNOWN TO BE CORRECT [secure]. It just passes my most primitive
smoke tests. Therefore, please try it out and send me bug reports so that it
can one day become production-quality or, if you're feeling adventurous, do
some code-review (patch-level, module-level, whatever...) or test-case
submission (automated or otherwise) yourself so that we can all laugh at my
silly mistakes now instead of crying over them in the future. (Obviously, I'd
be happy to review patches that you send to me as well.)
code: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/security
tests: mainly the example scripts on the wiki page
Compatibility
-
This code is definitely not backwards compatible with previous APIs.
The biggest compatibility-breaking changes that I presently know about are:
a) I no longer generate $HOME/{data,instance,tmp} since there's plugin-like
functionality which can be used to do so when it's necessary and because:
* data is subsumed by the topic dirs described above.
* instance was a design mistake which is finally fixed by support for
writable persistent $HOME dirs and container reuse
* tmp was removed because I'm not sure how to implement it correctly
and because $TMPDIR, /tmp, and /var/tmp are good enough for me at the
moment.
At any rate, I /think/ that Sugar activities which now require these dirs
can be made to work without modification with a little bit of
plugin-development by me and the Sugar team; my goal at the moment is to
make sure that rainbow is generally useful and that new activities can be
written against a less-contrived API.
b) I'm sure that I've broken rainbow's options support for things like
strace, constant-uid, and serial usage. (This should be easy to fix; I
just decided that I want to ship the rest of this code sooner rather
than later.)
Regards from Santorini,
Michael
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[Sugar-devel] new releases of powerd and olpc-kbdshim (alt. power mgmnt)
i've released a new version of both olpc-kbdshim and powerd. olpc-kbshim supports the XO grab keys, rotates the touchpad action when the screen rotates, and provides user (in)activity status for powerd. with this release olpc-kbdshim is now integrated with HAL in order to allow tracking USB mice and keyboards. powerd is a more flexible and configurable replacement for ohmd. it's not a drop-in replacement, but it's getting close -- there are a few things ohmd provides which are hard for powerd to do in exactly the same way. i'm about to start the review process for getting these both into fedora -- if you've been thinking of trying them, but haven't, i could use the feedback. remember that you'll need to install powerd on a laptop running an OLPC kernel, otherwise suspend and resume won't do anything anyway. olpc-kbdshim should work on the latest rawhide releases. (i hope -- feedback please, i haven't had a chance to try rawhide myself.) powerd disables ohmd when it installs, and reenables it if it's uninstalled. so there's no conflict unless you install ohmd after powerd, which is unlikely. both packages will apply small patches to sugars keyhandler.py, in order to take back control of the rotation and brightness keys. (i've suggested these patches become permanent, somehow, in SL #737.) if you later remove either of my packages, the keyhandler.py patches remain, but are benign. i could go on about features, etc, here, but since i'd be quoting or paraphrasing info that comes with the packages, i'll just refer directly there. olpc-kbdshim is described in its README: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim/tree/README powerd is described by commentary in the core script itself: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd/tree/powerd the git trees for the two packages are here: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim/ http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd RPMs live here: http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms and the initial announcements of powerd is here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/023798.html olpc-kbdshim wasn't as well announced, but was described here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/023703.html paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Sugar Collaboration for Poets
I have started a Poets Guide to Collaboration at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Collaboration . It is a simplified guide that only looks at the use case when a XMPP Server is present. My first question is: Why is Ejabberd the preferred XMPP server? Some of the Java base servers appear to be very scalable and very stable? david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] UCBLogo
I see that UCBLogo is under GPL, and that there is a Sugarized version. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Project_Ideas#Logo_Activity There is a Sugarized Logo—UCB Logo—but it does not record data into the Journal or use the standard Sugar toolbar. There are two possible approaches we could take: (1) digging deeper into UCB Logo and (2) working with another Logo, possibly PyLogo. Can we get this into our repository? I would like to have a version that can read the Logo files that Turtle Art can write, without having to run a script to extract them from the Journal. I would also like to have the ability to read Logo files into Turtle Art and translate them as far as possible. It should be no more difficult than the TA -- Logo conversion, assuming that we recognize only Turtle commands, and skip over anything else. I am exercising my own limited Python skills on creating new Turtle Art tiles to use in teaching various ideas in math and Computer Science. o A While or Until program flow tile o A tile to read the color and tone of the dot under the turtle, for use in a toy Universal Turing Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram's_2-state_3-symbol_Turing_machine), a Befunge interpreter, and a synesthesia (colors -- sound) machine. And no doubt other things. o A sound output tile, for the afore-mentioned synesthesia machine. o Prefix logic tiles, to match the recently added prefix math tiles, so that we don't need parentheses (which we don't have and I don't want to implement). o More math functions o Your idea here? -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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