Re: OLPC as Project of the Day at FOSS.in

2008-10-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/10/2008 am 12:15, ysgrifennodd John Gilmore: How about Collaboration as project of the day? Isn't our collaboration framework already shipped in other distros? The problem is that few applications actually use it to allow easy collaboration among end-users. There's probably some GUI

Re: First Draft Development Process Proposal

2008-06-30 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 29/06/2008 am 11:20, ysgrifennodd Tomeu Vizoso: Michael Stone wrote: Bryan, Thanks very much for the detailed feedback. Here are my comments: 1) Be able to remove activities to free up space, including activities that come pre-installed. Noted. Can you or Bernie supply a

Re: A few comments on recent work on Gadget.

2008-06-20 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 17/06/2008 am 19:53, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone: Dear Daf Guillaume, I read through Guillaume's 'activity' branch a few days ago and recorded several comments which I'd like to forward to you. I hope they help. * Thanks for the nice documentation linked to from

Re: Koji Tags for 8.2.0

2008-06-16 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 13/06/2008 am 00:23, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone: Marco, Dennis, and I talked this afternoon and evening about how to arrange our Koji tags for the 8.2.0 release. Assuming no serious objections are raised by either you or the Fedora infrastructure and release-engineering teams, we will take

Re: Questions about Customization Dirs

2008-06-11 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 10/06/2008 am 23:57, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone: A while ago, Walter mentioned that we'd like to be able to customize things like keyboard and internationalization settings. These settings are loaded by a program called 'olpc-session' maintained in the olpc-utils package.

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-30 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 29/04/2008 am 14:56, ysgrifennodd Eben Eliason: I could very well be way off target with this suggestion, but an implementation of Groups (background reading, though not quite up to date: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor#Groups)

Re: Maintaining visibility into Collabora's work for OLPC

2008-04-25 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 25/04/2008 am 22:50, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone: In the mean time, I'm quite happy with Daf working on Gadget and with Guillaume working on debugging Telepathy/presence-service issues. (Daf -- we should have a chat with Martin about how to coordinate the testing and deployment of Gadget

Re: Internet wide chat

2008-04-22 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 22/04/2008 am 09:59, ysgrifennodd Guillaume Desmottes: Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 11:54 -0400, Chris Ball a écrit : Hi, - They asked if video chat is possible. I recall someone was working on it months ago. What is the current status? We need two things: a codec that we

Re: list of laptops connected to jabber

2008-04-19 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 18/04/2008 am 23:25, ysgrifennodd Giannis Galanis: When connecting to a jabber server, how can we check the list of XOs that are seen in the mesh view, or the analyze activity? Is checking the gabble log the only way? What records in the log indicate arrival or departure? When

Re: networking scenarios

2008-04-18 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 12/04/2008 am 02:22, ysgrifennodd Mel Chua: Also, to answer Daf's original question, I took a stab and put up http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Networking_scenarios (with some discussion from this thread on the talk page) - move/edit/delete and all the usual if I've duplicated something. This page

Re: How to use Salut?

2008-04-16 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 15/04/2008 am 10:18, ysgrifennodd James Simmons: Morgan, Thanks for the information on ejabberd. I may try that this weekend. I am still puzzled by salut, though. I am using sugar-jhbuild on openSUSE 10.2 and everything seemed to compile OK, but running two instances of Sugar does

Re: How to use Salut?

2008-04-16 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 16/04/2008 am 09:33, ysgrifennodd James Simmons: Morgan and Guillaume, I tried using avahi-browse -a on openSUSE 10.2 last night and it told me that the daemon was not running. I checked the xinted panel in YAST and there was no entry for activating avahi, even though I installed avahi

Re: Collaborative Activity Development

2008-04-14 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/04/2008 am 13:02, ysgrifennodd John Gilmore: Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now working for OLPC, on improving activity collaboration. Tying collaboration to Sugar is a losing strategy. Once the rest of the world figures out that *their* programs should be trivial to

networking scenarios

2008-04-11 Thread Dafydd Harries
This is something which was not completely clear to me until I talked to Wad about it the other day, and I think other people might find it useful. It should probably go on the wiki (assuming it isn't already there somewhere). I'd like some feedback about where it belongs. The closest thing I've

Re: Connection Managers and Presence Service

2008-02-18 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 15/02/2008 am 14:35, ysgrifennodd Rene De Santiago: I've been looking at how to implement a new communication manager that communicates with the OLPC presence service and I'm still trying to make sense out of parts involved there, like DBus, the presence service and the existing

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/02/2008 am 12:19, ysgrifennodd John Watlington: On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:58 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: We're testing patches to Presence Service to not start salut (or stop it) for a while to give gabble a chance to connect to

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 15/02/2008 am 00:09, ysgrifennodd John Gilmore: Many activities are calling PS get_preferred_connection() ... However, during the period when we stop salut to let gabble try to connect, this call fails as there is no running plugin in PS. If an activity is launched during this time

Re: hosting request: Gadget

2008-02-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/02/2008 am 15:53, ysgrifennodd Dafydd Harries: 1. Project name : Gadget 2. Existing website, if any : 3. One-line description : Jabber server extension for activity indexing 4. Longer description : Gadget provides an index of Sugar activities

hosting request: Gadget

2008-02-14 Thread Dafydd Harries
, or push their own. There is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail - -- #1 dafDafydd HarriesMy account has already been

Re: Account creation on Jabber

2008-01-04 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 04/01/2008 am 04:15, ysgrifennodd John Watlington: How does one trigger the account creation on the XMPP server from Sugar ? After registering with a school server, the Register option in the Home Screen goes away (nice!), and /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config now reports that

Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-30 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 30/11/2007 am 10:25, ysgrifennodd Eben Eliason: I have been reviewing the code in the chat application and given the abilities of the dbus do not feel that text messages will add all that much complexity to the application. My original query was not as much having a chat window in my