RE: offer of assistance: Java and Qt

2012-03-25 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
Hi, Java is not installed on the XO, but can be installed. In Uruguay (that no have root access) we have this activity: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4285 That have al binaries into.. With this activity, you can use this other: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar

offer of assistance: Java and Qt

2012-03-25 Thread Karl Pietrzak
Hello there! My name is Karl, and I'm wondering if I can be of any (development) assistance. I know Linux, Java and, to a lesser extent, Qt. Please don't hesitate to give me a shout back, thank you! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Open Office and Java in XO 1.75 frozen repos

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
When we put together the 'frozen repos' for 11.3.x, openoffice, java, and some of their dependencies were not yet compiled on ARM. So they aren't there. So where for XO-1 and XO-1.5 all you need to do is add the packages to the package list, for 1.75 you need to take an additional

Re: XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

2011-04-14 Thread Carlos Nazareno
> Carlos -- please make sure you chase Adobe on this topic. And Skype. > > m Will re-initiate talks w/ Adobe folks. Btw, congrats on the recent developments in South America guys! Really cool stuff! :) -Naz -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- core team m

Re: XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

2011-04-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Java should be OK. The version that Fedora ships is based on the open > GPL version that is called IcedTea and is fully certified by the Java > group. We'll know more in the next month or so. Yep. Also to note that it is miss

Re: XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Will Flash Flash Player & Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it > being non-x86? > > For Android, Flash Player requires an ARMv7 (Cortex) + to run. > > Flash Player 9 was running on the N900 which ran

Re: XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Eliasen wrote: >   I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping > configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many > languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters) > so these languages could not

Re: XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread Alan Eliasen
On 04/13/2011 05:47 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Will Flash Flash Player & Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it > being non-x86? You may look into trying to get "Java SE For Embedded" working. It supposedly supports ARM architectures, but that's a

XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Will Flash Flash Player & Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it being non-x86? For Android, Flash Player requires an ARMv7 (Cortex) + to run. Flash Player 9 was running on the N900 which ran Maemo. Video calls & streaming over internet is now one of the most important uses for de

Java applets in Browse activity

2010-03-21 Thread Marcos Orfila
Hello everybody. I'm volunteering at CeibalJAM [0]. I'm trying to make Java applets work in the Browse activity. I have seen in [1] that Browse can handle Java applets. I've created an activity called "Java" that packs the Sun JRE. The activity is downloadable from [2

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jim Gettys
Early in OLPC, we seriously wanted to go with Java: but Sun's licensing was a serious issue we could not get around, despite a number of attempts by Walter to talk with Sun and see if it could get fixed. Part of the issue caused by this licensing was the "all or nothing" part of

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Hi, and thanks for trying it out! On 2009-08-29, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so >> feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc. > > These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches > and runs on both my s

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 16:56, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python > defensiveness then anything else. Honestly, I don't think so. Most or all of the Sugar developers had zero python experience when joined the project. And we

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Honestly, I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python defensiveness then anything else. I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is great resistance to fixing nonetheless. On Mon, Aug 31

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to they are of course welcome to. I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around the historical accident of Java not having been Open

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Ben, On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle > for "Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK", since the versioning issues (which > OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle for "Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK", since the versioning issues (which OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 & GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,) packaging

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so > feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc. These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches and runs on both my smparrish build os6 and on my mtd build soasxo59. It shows that "just checked in

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:29, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > A friend of mine wrote a hand/eye coordination game called SarynPaint > and recently released the source code. SarynPaint is written in Java, > so you'll need to install OpenJDK to use it. I just checked in minimal > supp

SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
A friend of mine wrote a hand/eye coordination game called SarynPaint and recently released the source code. SarynPaint is written in Java, so you'll need to install OpenJDK to use it. I just checked in minimal support for launching it from Sugar and rolled a .xo activity bundle file. The pr

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-12-01 Thread John Maloney
Hi, Bert and Tomeu. Many thanks for the pointers and examples. I've put together a mimetypes.xml file and will test it when I get home. (I don't have my XO with me.) I will let you know if I have any problems or questions. Thanks again! -- John On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Bert Freu

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-12-01 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 01.12.2008, at 15:37, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM, John Maloney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, Tomeu. >> >> Thanks for your reply. It's great that there is a way to handle this! >> >> I took a quick look at the EToys .xo bundle and did not see a >> mimetypes.xml

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-12-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM, John Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Tomeu. > > Thanks for your reply. It's great that there is a way to handle this! > > I took a quick look at the EToys .xo bundle and did not see a > mimetypes.xml file. However, I did notice that EToys lists a lot of > mi

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-12-01 Thread John Maloney
Hi, Tomeu. Thanks for your reply. It's great that there is a way to handle this! I took a quick look at the EToys .xo bundle and did not see a mimetypes.xml file. However, I did notice that EToys lists a lot of mime types in it's activity.info. What I don't see is how the system would know

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-12-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[reposting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] to cc] On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i'm forwarding this note from john maloney (scratch maintainer) to devel. >> >> this certain

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-11-25 Thread pgf
i'm forwarding this note from john maloney (scratch maintainer) to devel. this certainly sounds like a mime types issue, but i'm not sure where or how we'd augment the canonical list. paul john wrote: > Hi, Paul, Cynthia, and Claudia. > > I got a question from a professor at U. of Wisconsin

Re: Java & Scratch on XO

2008-10-20 Thread pgf
john -- i'm cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] on this, since i may not have all the answers. john wrote: > Hi, Paul. > > Will the G1G1 build have Java pre-installed so that you can run Java > applets in the browser? i don't believe so. > > I'm wondering

Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
hs for the majority of Unicode codepoints, or at least a >bunch of fonts that can be searched for a glyph. This affects language >learning and makes or breaks applications. Given network access, can such fonts be pulled on-demand based on need? >2.) If internationalized application

Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-08 Thread Alan Eliasen
Michael Stone wrote: > Alan, > > Thanks very much for the detailed writeup of your findings (and for your > efforts make OLPC's software distribution more friendly to people who > like Java). I can't personally resolve any of the questions which you > raise with an

Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-07 Thread Michael Stone
Alan, Thanks very much for the detailed writeup of your findings (and for your efforts make OLPC's software distribution more friendly to people who like Java). I can't personally resolve any of the questions which you raise with any authority but I can direct you toward the people wh

Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-07 Thread Alan Eliasen
Alan Eliasen wrote: > I'm working on making it possible to get Java to run on the OLPC, > and have a solution to what many of you may have seen: the problem that > any Java program uses a strange italicized serif font, no matter what > font you request. This odd font i

Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-07 Thread Alan Eliasen
I'm working on making it possible to get Java to run on the OLPC, and have a solution to what many of you may have seen: the problem that any Java program uses a strange italicized serif font, no matter what font you request. This odd font is used everywhere, and no other fonts se

Re: Java Support

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Myers
Greg, > Do we support Java in our browser? > > I may have a large opportunity in the Americas dependent on our ability > to support their application which I believe requires Java. > > I did read this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Java > > Is there any news or la

Java Support

2008-08-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Do we support Java in our browser? I may have a large opportunity in the Americas dependent on our ability to support their application which I believe requires Java. I did read this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Java Is there any news or latest thinking since then? Thanks, Greg S

Re: java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin (for David Leeming)

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Myers
David, I tried to send this to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' but it was bounced. I hope you see it here. > I am looking for the right rpms to install for the Java plugin > > java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin > > For a G1G1 XO-1 build 703, previously advertised method did not work; Sorry

Re: Java and Watch-Listen nonfree

2008-07-22 Thread Ton van Overbeek
David Leeming wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for the right rpms to install for the Java plugin > > java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin > > For a G1G1 XO-1 build 703, previously advertised method did not work; > > Also trying to locate watch-listen-nonfree-14.xo The wiki says do

Java and Watch-Listen nonfree

2008-07-21 Thread David Leeming
Hi, I am looking for the right rpms to install for the Java plugin java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin For a G1G1 XO-1 build 703, previously advertised method did not work; Also trying to locate watch-listen-nonfree-14.xo The wiki says download it from Helix site, it's not there, the Hleix Comm

Re: Java

2008-07-17 Thread Robert Myers
Tomeu, > can you check if the java plugin gets installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins? > > Can you tell me how did you installed it? Which rpms/tarballs did you use? > I'm answering on David's behalf. It sounds like he saw the restricted formats page and my bug report a

Re: Java

2008-07-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
David, just tried what Dennis suggested and it just worked: yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin Please git it a try yourself and if it works, could you update the wiki page and give some feedback on the trac tickets you mentioned? Remember that this is in joyride, so perhaps different advice

RE: Java

2008-07-15 Thread David Leeming
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomeu Vizoso Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:12 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Java 2008/7/15 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the > Sun Java version

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Bobby Powers
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Robert Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > >> Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the >> Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have >> installed on a school se

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 14 July 2008, David Leeming wrote: > Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the > Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have > installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational > materials "S

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Myers
David, > Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the > Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have > installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials > "Strengthening ICTs in Schools and Sch

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/7/15 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the > Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have > installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials > &

Java

2008-07-14 Thread David Leeming
Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials "Strengthening ICTs in Schools and Schoolnet Project in the

Java --> core???

2008-03-07 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
There is a large amount of educationally-useful java code out there, including both web applets and entire apps. It is my impression (though I haven't used it), that IcedTea (open-source-only java hybrid - 96% sun, 4% gnu) is now a working java implementation. Of course, that leaves the

Problem running a java/swing application

2008-01-15 Thread Seong-June Kim
Hi, I have created a ticket for this problem (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6026) but I thought there may be some people here that can give me some insights, and hopefully also some that are willing to examine the problem, so I reproduce it below: I tried a minimal Java/Swing application with the

Re: Java works - use version 1.5

2008-01-10 Thread Cay Horstmann
Steve Lewis wrote: > Further experimantation with Java reveals thes jre1.5 works well on the > XO . The latest version 1.6 has sigmificant issues. > I have unpatched jedit, Jbooks and an application of mine working under > jdk 1,5 > Thanks--that works very well for my apps too. Bu

Java works - use version 1.5

2008-01-07 Thread Steve Lewis
Further experimantation with Java reveals thes jre1.5 works well on the XO . The latest version 1.6 has sigmificant issues. I have unpatched jedit, Jbooks and an application of mine working under jdk 1,5 -- Steven M. Lewis PhD 4221 105th Ave NE Kirkland, WA 98033 425-889-2694 206-384-1340 (cell

Re: Java question

2007-12-31 Thread Cay Horstmann
the device and with ssh -X. So...it seems to me that there would be a huge benefit of getting Java to work properly on the device. Cay Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Wow. well congratulations. > > You take the prize for the *most* broken Java apps. > > I got JEdit and HeroDesigner

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 &l

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

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

java on OLPC

2007-12-29 Thread Steve Lewis
Swing JFrame appears to be broken badly - However - java applactions using JDialog work properly - dialogs apppear in the terminal space if launched from a terminal window - Dialogs are sized properly and menus in a JDialog work I can send code and jars to demonstrate this -- Steven M. Lewis PhD

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Cay Horstmann
> WebStart app, there was a giant gray window containing only the "Java >> Application" banner. In the other app, there was an empty white window. > > Did you try ctl-n/ctl-p ?? > > > -- Cay S. Horstmann | http://horstmann.com | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
On Dec 29, 2007 3:04 PM, Cay Horstmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is much worse than that for the two apps that I tried. In the > WebStart app, there was a giant gray window containing only the "Java > Application" banner. In the other app, there was an empty white w

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Cay Horstmann
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Short answer.... Java GUI apps don't work with Matchbook yet. > > Long answer: > > Each Java Window will be a ful l creen display, use alt-n/alt-p to > move between them. > > HOWEVER > > Layout doesn't work quite right, it

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Short answer Java GUI apps don't work with Matchbook yet. Long answer: Each Java Window will be a ful l creen display, use alt-n/alt-p to move between them. HOWEVER Layout doesn't work quite right, it thinks the window is much smaller then it really is. Pull down menus don

Java question

2007-12-28 Thread Cay Horstmann
I am trying to find out how to run Java GUI applications on the OLPC. I installed Java by downloading and executing jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin It works--if I ssh -X into the machine from a Linux box, I can successfully run Java Web Start applications such as /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/bin/javaws

Re: Fooling with Java

2007-12-23 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
On Dec 22, 2007 3:25 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Guys. > > I decided to try something a bit lighter weight so i installed JEdit. > I discovered that alt-p/alt-n and at elast for JEdit that works to get > my editor window up front. > > Two

Re: Fooling with Java

2007-12-22 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Thanks Guys. I decided to try something a bit lighter weight so i installed JEdit. I discovered that alt-p/alt-n and at elast for JEdit that works to get my editor window up front. Two oddities in mtachbook/java pairing still. (1) Although the system window is full screen its not resizing the

Re: Fooling with Java

2007-12-22 Thread Yuan Chao
On Dec 22, 2007 5:00 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I brought up a couple of X apps from the terminal window on my virtual > XO. Alt-Tab cycles through the windows, including the Journal. You can also use Alt-p or Alt-n to cycle through the windows. The related keyboard sh

Re: Fooling with Java

2007-12-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
t "full- > screen", that is, it resizes each top-level window to cover the whole > screen. In theory this should work fine with all well-behaved X11 > apps, and in practice it seems to work for most. Can't help with Java > specifically. I brought up a couple of X apps

Re: Fooling with Java

2007-12-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
ot;window-less" but "full- > screen", that is, it resizes each top-level window to cover the whole > screen. In theory this should work fine with all well-behaved X11 apps, > and in practice it seems to work for most. Can't help with Java > specifically. It might

Re: Fooling with Java

2007-12-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
. In theory this should work fine with all well-behaved X11 apps, and in practice it seems to work for most. Can't help with Java specifically. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Fooling with Java

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Okay, I have a JDK installed and it seems to work. For grins i put netbeans on my USB stick and fired it up. It seems to be working however I get no main display. I do get pop up dialogs though. My suspicion is that Netbeans is asking the X wm for a Window and, sicne from what I cna see the "w