Re: [Server-devel] Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-11 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Douglas Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This might also focus the minds of prospective designers: rather than > struggling to incorporate the letters X and S, try to make your logo > look like a school. I've been wondering about this. My understanding is th

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Douglas Bagnall
Walter Bender wrote: > Are we still so wedded to the purity of circles? Simply changing the > shape of the icon once a connection is made would go a long way. Maybe > morph into a star? or a sun? Or add the ubiquitous parens around the > icon a la the indicator light? None of these would adversely

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:09:46PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > Am 10.09.2008 um 14:52 schrieb Walter Bender: > > > Or add the ubiquitous parens around the > > icon a la the indicator light? > > That's *exactly* what I was thinking :) A halo/parens could look really nice. > - Bert - Mart

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread pgf
eben wrote: > We removed that for two reasons. First, as an indicator it was > actually really subtle; it didn't grab attention. Second, it > effectively stripped the identity of the server itself, since each AP > is identified by a pair of colors. Removing the stroke color made it > unclea

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread david
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Chris Ball wrote: > > 2.) I noticed in build 757 after opening the lid the system would > > attempt to connect to the last network device it had been connected > > to. With 759 it looks for a mesh first no matter that you had been > > connected to an AP last. > > It w

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 10.09.2008 um 14:52 schrieb Walter Bender: > Are we still so wedded to the purity of circles? Simply changing the > shape of the icon once a connection is made would go a long way. Maybe > morph into a star? or a sun? Or add the ubiquitous parens around the > icon a la the indicator light? Non

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Walter Bender
Are we still so wedded to the purity of circles? Simply changing the shape of the icon once a connection is made would go a long way. Maybe morph into a star? or a sun? Or add the ubiquitous parens around the icon a la the indicator light? None of these would adversely impact the color-ID scheme.

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Eben Eliason
We removed that for two reasons. First, as an indicator it was actually really subtle; it didn't grab attention. Second, it effectively stripped the identity of the server itself, since each AP is identified by a pair of colors. Removing the stroke color made it unclear which AP was which. We f

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Robert, thanks for the notes. > > > Regarding WPA support remember you have existing G1G1 users out in > > the wild using WPA plus a new G1G1 is scheduled for November time > > frame. It is also possible that a deploy

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Bastien
Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, what happened to the white circle around the network circle in > the Neighborhood to indicate which was connected? I liked that visual > confirmation. +1 -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lis

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Marshall
Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Robert, thanks for the notes. > >> 2.) I noticed in build 757 after opening the lid the system would >> attempt to connect to the last network device it had been connected >> to. With 759 it looks for a mesh first no matter that you had been >> connected to a

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Robert, thanks for the notes. > Regarding WPA support remember you have existing G1G1 users out in > the wild using WPA plus a new G1G1 is scheduled for November time > frame. It is also possible that a deployment or two use WPA. We aren't going to ship without WPA support, but we als

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regarding WPA support remember you have existing G1G1 users out in the wild using WPA plus a new G1G1 is scheduled for November time frame. It is also possible that a deployment or two use WPA. There are suspend related bugs in 8.2-759. 1.) There is a nasty suspend related networking bug that

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Martin, > XS-0.4 is already out and done -- safe and sane to install, and > includes a facility that you can use to install the OS updates to the > laptops. There is also an extra rpm package (being finished now) that > you can use to serve activity updates. Both require a bit of manual > int

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin, does that mean the XS release is pushed back too? XS-0.4 is already out and done -- safe and sane to install, and includes a facility that you can use to install the OS updates to the laptops. There is also an extra r

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Martin, > Go for 8.2-759 - that's pretty close to being a release candidate, > and it's fairly good. Two things that hit mainstream usage and are > being worked on: bad WPA support, odd Out-of-memory situations - > activities get a kill -9 without so much as a "pardon me". I don't

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Martin, > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course. I'll put the latest joyride on my devel machine now to test. > > Go for 8.2-759 - that's pretty close to being a release candidate, and > it's fairly good. Two things that hit mainstream usage and

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course. I'll put the latest joyride on my devel machine now to test. Go for 8.2-759 - that's pretty close to being a release candidate, and it's fairly good. Two things that hit mainstream usage and are being worked on: ba

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Michael, > The final weeks of September seem more likely to me at the moment. If > you want to stay up to date, please watch > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0 > > Then you'll receive instant notifications. :) Erk. OK, thanks! I'll be travelling out to do the rollouts on the 22nd Septembe

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
Pia, The final weeks of September seem more likely to me at the moment. If you want to stay up to date, please watch http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0 Then you'll receive instant notifications. :) Also, will you be able to help test our next release candidate(s)? Michael _

Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-08 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, Is the expected release date for 8.2.0 still September 17th? I have a trial that depends on this coming out (for various functionality, mainly the software updates and flash) so I just wanted to see whether it was still looking likely to be released then. Thanks all! The joyrides are look