[sugar] Random observations with joyride-2225 and latest activities

2008-07-29 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, I've been running joyride-2225 with what I believe to be the latest versions (as per the update software functionality of the sugar-control-panel) of some core activities. In the past half hour I have stumbled across some issues that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else so I thought I'd

Re: [sugar] Random observations with joyride-2225 and latest activities

2008-07-29 Thread Morgan Collett
2008/7/29 Christoph Derndorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I've been running joyride-2225 with what I believe to be the latest versions (as per the update software functionality of the sugar-control-panel) of some core activities. In the past half hour I have stumbled across some issues that

Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-07-29 Thread Morgan Collett
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:57, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after talking with Seth this evening, I whipped together a small patch (against the current git heads of sugar and sugar-toolkit) to launch an activity with the service name of org.laptop.Help on the first boot of

[sugar] Killing hung activities

2008-07-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Today I was testing Paing in Joyride and managed to hung it in a way that hogs the CPU. There seems to be no way to kill such an activity from Sugar. Stop just tries to close the X window, which is ineffective in such cases. We'd need to fire a timer to check if the activity is still there after

Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-07-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
I think the agreement when we met about this was to *not* autolaunch the activity. Eben? Marco On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after talking with Seth this evening, I whipped together a small patch (against the current git heads of sugar and

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-29 Thread Martin Sevior
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:50 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what text highlighting, SJ and I have recently (right before he left for Wikimania) been looking into getting similar

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-07-29 Thread Release Team
= New requests = Alternate home layouts; fixed ring scaling; better modularization of layouts http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7685 = Rejected requests = Tabbing of from the splash screen does not work. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7657 Software update control panel should be opened automatically

Re: [sugar] Performance

2008-07-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Greg Smith wrote: Hi Michael, 7395 has a release contract (see http://dev.laptop.org/report/18) I believe that we will lose a lot of other work too if we don't fix it. What do we need to do to get this assigned and resolved? I upped the priority to Blocker (will negotiate from there as

Re: [sugar] Killing hung activities

2008-07-29 Thread Eben Eliason
Indeed, the need for this has been expressed in a long forgotten ticket. I do think it's something we should support in some fashion, and something worth a look for 9.1. More comments on the ticket: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1166#comment:8 (The in the ring activities mentioned are now in the

Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-07-29 Thread Bobby Powers
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the agreement when we met about this was to *not* autolaunch the activity. Eben? that could certainly be. it was a fun little project for an hour, and I wasn't aware a decision was reached on whether or not

Re: [sugar] inconsistent identification regarding full-screen sessions

2008-07-29 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI - I am not writing a ticket at this time (until I can reproduce consistent misbehavior). G1G1. Joyride manually updated to 2216. Fair enough. It sounds like we need to tease it apart a bit first; there might be 3

Re: [sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

2008-07-29 Thread Eben Eliason
My personal opinion on the matter is that we shouldn't be doing the launch automatically, but others are welcome to disagree. =) I think the presence of a nice, clean, question mark icon on the Home screen after boot will be plenty for those that want to jump into help right away, and instilling

Re: [sugar] Random observations with joyride-2225 and latest activities

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 09:32 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: a) Record: using v56 the activity starts up fine, the display shows whatever the camera is capturing, I can go into fullscreen-mode, switch to different tabs, etc. However once I press the capture-button the whole thing basically

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!! I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__ of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed, mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc. Given that there *are* Activities out in the hands of users (both with G1G1 and with

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:10 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!! I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__ of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed, mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc. Please ensure that you have

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me* as the owner of that ticket -- presumably making it my

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 29 Jul 2008, at 22:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me*

[sugar] Notes from today's Release Meeting(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Michael Stone
1. We're going to begin nominating this week's 'joyride-weekly' tomorrow at 0900 EDT. If you have risky changes you want to contribute, please provide them _after_ we deliver our nomination. If you want to help more peoples' changes make the deadline, then please help smoke-test joyrides built

Re: [sugar] Notes from today's Release Meeting(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Holt
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing I believe you really need some dedicated person as liaison between sugarlabs/1cc and outside testing and development volunteers. We're working on it! Are you interested in joining OLPC's Support Gang where a collegial group discusses just such

Re: [sugar] Notes from today's Release Meeting(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:32:42PM -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: I (just an interested G1G1 owner for my grandson with a Solaris/Unix/Linux background) would love to help testing, but you are not making it very easy. What would make it easier for you? I gather that having the nominated

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Bobby Powers
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!! I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__ of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed, mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc. Given that