[sugar] Reviews report

2008-08-25 Thread Release Team
= New requests = bundlebuilder should perform a more standard system installation http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8136 Network Manager GUI doesn't report success or failure http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2866 ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

[sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, we have a couple of patches that should be ready to be reviewed by tomorrow, which solves several issues with the UI of network devices. #6944 UI confuses which AP you are connected to #3993 The color of network icon in Home view becomes white after restarting Sugar. #2866 Network Manager

[sugar] bundlebuilder system installation changes (was Re: Reviews report)

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Release Team wrote: = New requests = bundlebuilder should perform a more standard system installation http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8136 While the patch is simple, the general approach can have interesting consequences. I'd like to get feedback by anyone that has put some thinking into

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Walter Bender
I agree with your assessment. Note that right now (8.2-756), the mesh icons don't show up on either the Neighborhood view or the Frame; that is clearly not a satisfactory situation. regards. -walter On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, we have

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 15:13, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with your assessment. Note that right now (8.2-756), the mesh icons don't show up on either the Neighborhood view or the Frame; that is clearly not a satisfactory situation. That seems to be a regression in the

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, we have a couple of patches that should be ready to be reviewed by tomorrow, which solves several issues with the UI of network devices. #6944 UI confuses which AP you are connected to #3993 The color of

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti 4 would be nice to have but I don't consider it essential. Actually, I think this is the most important aspect of the design, and I strongly suggest we try to land it. This has been confusing to many, and

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:19:19PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 15:13, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [in joyride/8.2-756] the mesh icons don't show up on either the Neighborhood view or the Frame That seems to be a regression in the firmware, with the msh0

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:19:02PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: we have a couple of patches that should be ready to be reviewed by tomorrow, which solves several issues with the UI of network devices. [...] 1 Adds IP address to the mesh wireless palettes, with associated changes to

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:19:02PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: we have a couple of patches that should be ready to be reviewed by tomorrow, which solves several issues with the UI of network devices. [...] 1 Adds

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Kimberley Quirk
I don't agree with adding #4 at this time (changing how/where we see the mesh icons). One of the many work-arounds that we have been telling people in field is that they may need to choose mesh ch 6 or 11 if they want a small group to collaborate in a school setting without any other

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Kimberley Quirk
Just spoke with Ricardo and he stated that the wireless firmware we added to this build was for test purposes only and not the firmware that we want to ship. It has other test code in it and the simple mesh feature was specifically turned off; so we can't use this firmware for system

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Kimberley Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't agree with adding #4 at this time (changing how/where we see the mesh icons). One of the many work-arounds that we have been telling people in field is that they may need to choose mesh ch 6 or 11 if they want a

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 25.08.2008 um 17:56 schrieb Eben Eliason: The fact that the mesh devices were even added to the Neighborhood view was a last minute hack, and we've been living with it (and confusing people with it) ever since. Have to agree, this causes a lot of confusion. Since the UI is redesigned

Re: [sugar] [Techteam] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Michail Bletsas
The firmware that we are testing right now reports its version as 0.0.0.0.p18. There has been code recently added to the driver that checks the version of the firmware and disables the mesh features on the driver if it doesn't see the right firmware series. So all that we need at this point is

[sugar] [Announce] XO / Sugar Book Sprint

2008-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
---please forgive crossposts--- XO / Sugar Book Sprint This week in Austin, Texas a team of writers are gathering together to immerse themselves in a one week intensive documentation jam. The purpose of the Book Sprint is to produce documentation in 1 week to support the forthcoming 2008

[sugar] Measure Activity, release candidate version 19

2008-08-25 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Dear friends, I have been working this while to try and incorporate _some_ of the great feedback that I get from users and from the field on Measure Activity. I would like to share with you Measure Activity release candidate version 19. Why I call this release candidate is because I would like

[sugar] Pylint regressions

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Courtesy of buildbot: * Module view.home.grid W0611: 18: Unused import array * Module view.home.activitieslist W0311:207: Bad indentation. Found 11 spaces, expected 12 W0311:209: Bad indentation. Found 11 spaces, expected 12 Done. Please fix them, no review is necessary

[sugar] Removing docstrings

2008-08-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
A previous message (can't find it now to respond to it, sorry) indicated that static docstrings were responsible for a significant amount of sugar's runtime memory requirements. The python interpreter's -O -O option specifically addresses this; it removes docstrings from the running image. This

[sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-08-25

2008-08-25 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. Vote early and often: There is one more week to cast your ballot in the Sugar Oversight Board election. The Selectricity server was (unexpectedly) down for maintenance this past weekend; if you had trouble accessing the server, please try again. 2. Minsky on learning: On

Re: [sugar] Landing patches about the network devices UI

2008-08-25 Thread Martin Dengler
[for the interested but impatient: http://dev.laptop.org/~mdengler/2866/2866_screenshot_20.png http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2866 ] On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:19:02PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: we have a couple of patches that should be ready to be reviewed by tomorrow, which solves

[sugar] Public_meeting !== Game_Jam (was Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-08-25)

2008-08-25 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. Learning Content: On Sunday, 31 August, at 4PM, OLPC will be hosting a public meeting to discuss (Please see http://olpcphysics.eventbrite.com): This link points to the Aug. 29-31 Game Jam. There is no information there

[sugar] how can communications mode be manually controlled ?

2008-08-25 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Recently there has been extensive discussion of this on trac, on sugar, and on devel. What I have gathered from that discussion: 1) To turn OFF both communication with the mesh and communication with the AP, use the control panel. But the control panel only has a checkbox for

Re: [sugar] how can communications mode be manually controlled ?

2008-08-25 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:48:02AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: 1) To turn OFF both communication with the mesh and communication with the AP, use the control panel. Either Network -- Radio or Power -- Extreme Power Management seemed to work for me. But the control panel only