, with no bounds checking in some cases. We're
very lucky if it works so well :-)
Sounds right, but I'm not sure *who* is going to put their
time into it.
What about Gnome people. I would guess they will not be indifferent
to the OLPC/XO. Couldn't they be formally asked for support?
(I know
--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
From: Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org
Subject: Re: To Gnome or not to Gnome
To: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com
Cc: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com, Devel
devel@lists.laptop.org, Fedora OLPC fedora
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 01:10 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
I really think that the Gnome desktop is a valuable addition for
the XO but mostly for the end user. Is not a coincidence that
people use it. So openness and robustness should be implemented
there too.
If the problem
--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
From: Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org
Subject: Re: To Gnome or not to Gnome
To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com
Cc: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com, Devel
devel@lists.laptop.org, Fedora OLPC fedora
:-)
Sounds right, but I'm not sure *who* is going to put their
time into it.
What about Gnome people. I would guess they will not be indifferent
to the OLPC/XO. Couldn't they be formally asked for support?
(I know is upstream but...)
Do you have good contacts within the Gnome community?
I
without the need to reflash.
The decision of including Gnome in a deployment should not be taken
lightly. It adds _at least_ some mess avoidance and recovery from
mess training; as well as I made a mess in Gnome support issues.
Yeah, we're pondering it. People are split on issue, but surely
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 09:33 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
More than protecting them, which is very hard or impossible, I'd add an
option to reset them to defaults without the need to reflash.
It just occurred to me that GNOME actually provides some ways to
lock-down settings, useful
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 08:44:06 pm Bernie Innocenti wrote:
test -f $HOMEDIR/.dontrestore || tar xjvf /var/lib/home-save.tbz -C
$HOMEDIR ./
Users tend to fill up their home very quickly and we don't have
400-500MB of free space for an extra copy.
The backup would only contain
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
Children discovered some very creative ways to break their systems
through Gnome.
LOL! And whatever we fix up, more creative ways of making a mess will appear.
All I can suggest is that having a hardlinked tree
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 23:13 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
OK. The Sugar desktop was unaffected by all these. So if you manage to switch
you are safe.
However, is still a breaker for me, given that is generated by a gnome panel
option.
Children discovered some very creative ways
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:28:05 pm Bernie Innocenti wrote:
All we need is a fast way to recover from disasters. A panic button
which would reset all settings. It could be implemented in
olpc-configure with 3 lines of code. In the absence of a recovery
option, technicians resort to flashing
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 20:31 +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:28:05 pm Bernie Innocenti wrote:
All we need is a fast way to recover from disasters. A panic button
which would reset all settings. It could be implemented in
olpc-configure with 3 lines of code. In the
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