[sugar] pulsing icon code move from sugar to sugar-toolkit?

2008-07-19 Thread Martin Dengler
Hi sugar@, As part of fixing #6995, I'd like to propose we move the contents of sugar/view/pulsingicon.py into sugar-toolkit/graphics/pulsingicon.py. The situation I need to handle is that a sugar-toolkit/graphics/tray.TrayIcon needs to pulse, via its sugar-toolkit/graphics/icon.Icon member[1]. A

Re: [sugar] Using threads in an Activity

2008-07-19 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shikhar wrote: | What am I missing? Where's the code? The Distance activity uses threads, gtk, and dbus without any problem, so that may be a good reference code. - --Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

[sugar] Using threads in an Activity

2008-07-19 Thread Shikhar
Hi, I am trying to use threads in my activity. However, the UI locks up while the thread runs. Actually, it is somewhat strange what happens: the thread is already initialized and running, waiting on a Queue for a work request. After I make a request, this is when the UI locks up (although th

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 18:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > J.M. Maurer wrote: > |> Have you used Gobby? It's the shared editor that people at OLPC > |> _actually_ use, and having per-user background colors is among its key > |> features.

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-19 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.M. Maurer wrote: |> Have you used Gobby? It's the shared editor that people at OLPC |> _actually_ use, and having per-user background colors is among its key |> features. | | Not sure if I read this correctly, but are you implying that Write's | col

Re: [sugar] Write needs your help (was Re: Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 10:16 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Marc is a bit of a perfectionist so I'm not sure how usable "95%" of the > >> work is and whether it could be finished by simply using it and > >> providing bu

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:41 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Sevior wrote: > | Hi Folks, > | Just so you know. The only reason for #7447 is because we > | haven't put the UI in to enable it. > > I would like an additional con

Re: [sugar] Write needs your help (was Re: Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-19 Thread J.M. Maurer
> For Firefox, that means (for example) that we can use upstreams > Awesome Bar instead of reimplementing our own url completion. For > abiword, it means acknowledging that a lot of our initial Tubes port > was/is simply unnecessary now that we have a stream-based > collaboration mechanism, and we

Re: [sugar] URL and Integration

2008-07-19 Thread Eben Eliason
/me feels silly. =) On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:31:24PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: > >On the other hand, maybe what we need more is a forum space. > > You do realize that both forum.laptop.org and the OLPCNews forum have >

Re: [sugar] URL and Integration

2008-07-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:31:24PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: >On the other hand, maybe what we need more is a forum space. You do realize that both forum.laptop.org and the OLPCNews forum have been up and running for months (years?) with thousands of replies? Michael __

Re: [sugar] SMS messaging

2008-07-19 Thread Erik Garrison
Ah, I understand. It is probably best to discuss this with people working on the presence service.. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:53:49AM -0400, Ankur Verma wrote: > Hi Erik, > > Thanks for your help. However, I wish to implement jabber->xo part in > sms->jabber->xo for which I will need the list o

Re: [sugar] SMS messaging

2008-07-19 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:44:45PM -0400, Ankur Verma wrote: > Hello, > > I am able to receive SMS text messages through a mobile phone intended to be > attached to school server. I need to forward this message to a specific XO > connected on the jabber server. At this moment, I have the message i

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Well, we can add some sugar API around the gtk clipboard stuff, but I'm not sure there's a lot of value in there, as the gtk+ API is already quite high level. The problem here is how do we extend the existing X specs to deliver the experience we aim for. Last we talked about it, Marco was opposed

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-19 Thread Eben Eliason
I can't tell from your wording if you are implying that we will or will not be creating some custom wrappers for the clipboard service. I think we absolutely need them to accomplish several critical clipboard issues (among them, specifying icons, colors, titles, and previews for clippings). In fa

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-19 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:53:31PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Can I get a quick +1/-1 on this question related to > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7331 > > The new Home View in 8.2.0 will have three available styles. We need to > pick one to default on first upgrade or install. > > Ch

[sugar] Fresh Ubuntu Sucrose packages

2008-07-19 Thread Morgan Collett
Updated Sugar packages for Ubuntu. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:45 Subject: [Devel-announce] Fresh Ubuntu Sucrose packages To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey all, I'm a student at the University of Lincoln (UK) working on an

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-07-19 Thread Release Team
= Approved requests = Activities cannot be deleted via GUI http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7071 = Rejected requests = HippoCanvas does not support RTL rendering in RTL locales http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3108 Journal window should be mirrored in RTL locales http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6800

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Works quite well here in a MP with last joyride. Just did some light testing, though. Tomeu On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not good news. I don't recall that anything should have changed > between B4 and the C series that would have impacted Record. I'

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-19 Thread Walter Bender
Not good news. I don't recall that anything should have changed between B4 and the C series that would have impacted Record. I'll have to check it out on more machines... -walter On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19 Jul 2008, at 00:18, Walter Bender wr

[sugar] pacing oneself

2008-07-19 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The "visual speed of operation" of palette opening/closing on the screen is noticeably slower on the OLPC than on a workstation. When the OLPC user fails to "slow down" with his actions, unintended consequences can result. Was working (Joyride 2177) in Terminal with a removable storage device

Re: [sugar] Write needs your help (was Re: Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:11 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, I agree that this is a goal that makes a lot of sense. >> Unfortunately, my experience says that the approach you are suggesting >> won't

Re: [sugar] wxWidgets under Sugar?

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Brian Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone already gotten wxWidgets to work with Sugar? If so, that > would save me a lot of duplicated effort -- right now, any wxWidgets > program I try to run immediately seg faults. Thanks. > > (This is to help in get

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Faisal Anwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm playing around with the clipboard package on sugar and had a quick > question. So, the clipboardservice.py file shows some basic api for getting > and setting objects on the clipboard through the dbus. However,