Re: New update.1 build 669

2007-12-31 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2007, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: What happened? We applied F-7 updates as per http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5650 That's good, but aren't we doing the same in joyride too? -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\

Tools for creating svg icons

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Lewis
I am working in 'sugarizing' some activities, Avtivities take an svg icon. I tried creating a 50 x 50 icon with Inkscape but it has color (samples do not) and does not blink properly - any suggestions for tools or settings -- Steven M. Lewis PhD 4221 105th Ave NE Kirkland, WA 98033 425-889-2694

Terminating activities

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Lewis
I have created a Sugar activity to launch a process (a java app). I after I spawn the task I want to cleanly terminate the activity. Also is there any way tp set the icon for an already running activity? -- Steven M. Lewis PhD 4221 105th Ave NE Kirkland, WA 98033 425-889-2694 206-384-1340 (cell)

Re: TurtleArt Mandelbrot

2007-12-31 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Samuel Klein wrote: Ben, that's neat. Speaking of fractals: Bernie has been working on sugarizing Gnu Xaos, and we were just tweaking an icon. It has a lovely tutorial about what fractals are that could serve as a model for other tutorials. The port somewhat preliminary, but I still think

Re: Tools for creating svg icons

2007-12-31 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Steve Lewis wrote: I am working in 'sugarizing' some activities, Avtivities take an svg icon. I tried creating a 50 x 50 icon with Inkscape but it has color (samples do not) and does not blink properly - any suggestions for tools or settings After you save the svg, you need to set two

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-31 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:05 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: I meant the OLPC kernel. I presume that OLPC changes will be offered to mainline in some batch fashion, rather than piecemeal. This particular one is of no upstream value in isolation, as it is utterly dependent on OLPC-specific EC

iwpriv (Was: OLPC News 2007-12-30)

2007-12-31 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
David Woodhouse wrote: As a general rule, that is totally incorrect. Changes should be pushed towards upstream _before_ they're ever committed to our tree, and any change which has been made only in the OLPC tree and not pushed upstream should be considered volatile and likely to disappear...

Re: Tools for creating svg icons

2007-12-31 Thread Justin Gallardo
On Dec 31, 2007 7:32 AM, Steve Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working in 'sugarizing' some activities, Avtivities take an svg icon. I tried creating a 50 x 50 icon with Inkscape but it has color (samples do not) and does not blink properly - any suggestions for tools or settings Don't

Tricks to getting Java Frames working on the OLPC

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Lewis
The following code allows Java JFrames to work properly on the OLPC - it assumes - only one active frame and that the frame is full screen. You can add it to common applications = the active sections work only on the OLPC The trick is to use showFrame and hideFrame instead of setVisible - these

New Project: inferno-olpc

2007-12-31 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
1. Project name : inferno-olpc 2. Existing website, if any : http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno 3. One-line description : Customized launcher and environment for running a hosted Inferno instance. 4. Longer description : Inferno is a virtual-machine based distributed operating

Re: iwpriv (Was: OLPC News 2007-12-30)

2007-12-31 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:56 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: btw, we still have code in /etc/init.d/olpc-configure that tries to use one of those private ioctls to remap the leds, and outputs errors if they're missing. Is this still needed? Yes, I think so. And I think it probably even

Killing activities

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Lewis
I am finding myself in a situation where I start an activity that fails to start - this happens alot becaise I am writing my own activities - short of restarting sugar is there any way to kill a stuck activity - one which says it is starting and never gets the Stop/Resume menu? -- Steven M.

Re: Tricks to getting Java Frames working on the OLPC

2007-12-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Steve Lewis wrote: The following code allows Java JFrames to work properly on the OLPC - it assumes - only one active frame and that the frame is full screen. You can add it to common applications = the active sections work only on the OLPC The trick is to use showFrame

Cerebro: Scalable presence information

2007-12-31 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Announcing Cerebro - http://cerebro.mit.edu Cerebro is a scalable, light-weight protocol that allows 802.11b/g devices to form a mesh network. Cerebro has the following advantages: - It provides presence information about 100 nodes using only a single frame per 10 seconds, per node. - It runs

Re: Updated API documentation for everything.

2007-12-31 Thread Gerard J. Cerchio
C. Scott Ananian wrote: The subject line of my previous message should have been 'updated API documentation', not 'updates API documentation', sigh. --scott Scott, Is this going to be a more or less permanent location? I am setting my link on my PlayGo activity page to the

Re: Question about School Server and student tracking

2007-12-31 Thread John Watlington
This is really a question to the activity developers/learning experience folks, not server devel... On Dec 29, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: Question for those working on the school server In Nepal we are looking at how to track students' academic progress as they workthrough our

Re: New Project: inferno-olpc

2007-12-31 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: 1. Project name : inferno-olpc Great project. Looking forward to see it in action! -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ ___

Re: [sugar] OLPC emulation

2007-12-31 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Matt Price wrote: i would definitely advise against trying to use the standard emulation images, as they take some work to get running. I'm interested in helping fix such problems. Please, file bugs for major problems you've experienced and assign them to me. Even better, submit patches.

qemu and the file system and development

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Lewis
I have gotten sugar running under windows with QEMU - no I have lots of questions 1) If I make changes in the emulated system are those changes remembered between runs? 2) Can I have the emulator point at a part of the windows file system - allowing my tools to work on data to be used by the

Re: Killing activities

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Steve Lewis wrote: I am finding myself in a situation where I start an activity that fails to start - this happens alot becaise I am writing my own activities - short of restarting sugar is there any way to kill a stuck activity - one which says it is

Re: Tricks to getting Java Frames working on the OLPC

2007-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Its good you found an hack... but this is definitely a hack. As it stands Java wouldn't pass verification on the OLPC and thus cannot be said to be working yet. Does this throw some light on what might be wrong at the matchbook level? JK On Dec 31, 2007 1:00 PM, Steve Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java question

2007-12-31 Thread Cay Horstmann
Beginner's luck, I guess. Try running javaws http://www.horstmann.com/violet/violet.jnlp to see what I mean. I ran jEdit, and indeed it works ok. I didn't have to do anything with Ctrl-n or Ctrl-p. The menus and dialogs all came up, just at weird places. Speed is acceptable, both on the device