Re: zen root (was Re: Flash wiki entries)

2009-01-03 Thread Carlos Nazareno
sudo mu ! On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Anyway, why does this wiki page tell you to enter sudo su - >> >> Some future zen compilation of sudo may support infinite nesting of >> levels of protectedness, s

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Vaguely related, I had did some work to avoid the gray circles: you can see the result at: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/standard_icons.png The relevant patch (it needs some work) is at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8661 I'll resume work on it when I have some more time - in the meanwhile, if a

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Marshall
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm not a python programmer so searching through the source entails quite a learning curve... Perhaps someone with real knowledge of the internals can suggest an approach or more specifics about where to look. --Chris Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't

Re: zen root (was Re: Flash wiki entries)

2009-01-03 Thread marc towers
I'm quiet sure if we can answer these Koans correctly they won't be a problem :) http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_47.html#SEC54 Still seeing how I can help out with OLPC, given myself two months until I start something. Will check and see what the TODO list is like. Been working too much with t

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Marshall
Yes, but these are un-sugarized programs and they still generate gray circles. Doesn't that imply that window creation outside of sugar is being detected and acted upon? --Chris Tony Anderson wrote: > Compare: > > http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/pygtutorial/getting-started.html

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-03 Thread Tony Anderson
Compare: http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/pygtutorial/getting-started.html which creates a top-level window and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PyGTK/Hello_World_Tutorial as a sugar activity. The first has the line: window = GtkWindow(WINDOW_TOPLEVEL) # create a top level window wh

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Marshall
Two specific questions come to mind: (1) How does Sugar know that a new top level window has been instantiated? Is there a hook from the X server or what? (2) What sort of cleanup is needed to make the anonymous gray circle go away? Do you have to notify Sugar or what? I'm

getting devkey - a minefield of obstacles

2009-01-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Needed to get a developer key for a XO. Clicked on the provided field in Browse - it timed out. Ended up extracting the request from /home, carrying it to a desktop machine, issuing the request in a browser there, creating an exception for the invalid certificate at activation.laptop.org -- a

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-03 Thread Peter Robinson
>> I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in >> Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my >> doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, >> though it might be worth investigating. > > That has been my experience too,

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-03 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Brian Pepple wrote: > Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec installed by default > during the development of Fedora 9, but decided against doing so since > we felt it wasn't quite ready for that. > Ah, thanks for the clarification, I don't run Fedora so

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-03 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, > > I would remove the old fc9 build from the olpc_development repo (or > > even have one for 8.2.0 and one for 9.1.0 so they don't get mixed > > up). Surely it should be pulling cyrus-sasl from the Fedora repos > > anyway? > > I've just pushed a patch to pilgrim's joyride branc

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Peter, > I would remove the old fc9 build from the olpc_development repo (or > even have one for 8.2.0 and one for 9.1.0 so they don't get mixed > up). Surely it should be pulling cyrus-sasl from the Fedora repos > anyway? I've just pushed a patch to pilgrim's joyride branch to sw