Re: [sugar] Release Cycle (David Farning)

2008-08-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi David, Very constructive and encouraging e-mail! The PDF looks interesting too. Thanks, Greg S *** Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:34:44 -0500 From: David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sugar] Release Cycle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type:

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-08-15 Thread Release Team
= New requests = Mark newly downloaded activities as favorites by default http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7220 gettext translations slows journal's scrolling http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7959 = Approved requests = Accelerator labels don't show up for most toolbar buttons

Re: [sugar] 0.84 goals

2008-08-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm not sure where this one goes, but I'd love to see the home views activity icons and palettes represent the latest N journal entries for said activities. I think this will be a great way to leverage the Journal benefits by reducing new activity cruft, encouraging folks to resume using the

Re: [sugar] 0.84 goals

2008-08-15 Thread Walter Bender
Why not let accessing of *deferred* Activities be handled by Journal ? Because it involves an extra step or two that in practice people don't take. Personally, I would even go to the extreme that the Home View should by default open the most recent Journal entry (noun). This is clearly

Re: [sugar] 0.84 goals

2008-08-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Why not let accessing of *deferred* Activities be handled by Journal ? Because it involves an extra step or two that in practice people don't take. Personally, I would even go to the extreme that the Home View should by default open the most recent Journal entry. I'll be the first to admit

Re: [sugar] 0.84 goals

2008-08-15 Thread Walter Bender
If 'resume' is there, should 'erase' be there also -- what if the user mis-positions his click ? I don't think erase should be accessible from the Home View. it has taken me effort to mentally construct a role for the Journal. If short cuts to the most-recent uses of the Activities are

Re: [sugar] 0.84 goals

2008-08-15 Thread David Farning
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 23:08 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Hello, I started working on the goals for 0.84 in the wiki: http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap/0.84#Goals Here is what I have so far. * Next generation journal * File sharing * Collaboration scalability *

Re: [sugar] 0.84 goals

2008-08-15 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not let accessing of *deferred* Activities be handled by Journal ? Because it involves an extra step or two that in practice people don't take. Personally, I would even go to the extreme that the Home View should

[sugar] Release Cycle - Responsibilities

2008-08-15 Thread David Farning
The third step in establishing a release cycle will be determining responsibilities. This will be the biggest challenge. Assessment of areas to improve. This is not meant as a slight on the hard work any individuals at OLPC have done on Sugar. I am amazed at the overall progress you have made

[sugar] [RELEASE] Develop 35

2008-08-15 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
These are edits on the XO to work with Rainbow. New activity now works, and open activity is improved. There are some other minor bugs fixed (no duplicate log tab). However, the log tab still does not work with Rainbow enabled; this is a basic feature of rainbow, and will not work until there is a