Re: [sugar] Trac ticket workflow updates.

2008-09-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, As we wind down toward the end of the 8.2.0 release cycle (and begin to tighten our change control), we must make a few tweaks to the Trac ticket workflow. I have written up the new workflow in great detail at

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sugar Developers, In the field and amongst our own developers there have been numerous complaints about the performance of Sugar. One simple thing we can do to improve user experience is to stop taking screenshots on

[sugar] Chat widget (was PlayGo v2 and v3)

2008-09-04 Thread Morgan Collett
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 18:52, Andrés Ambrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to hold off showing it until I had it completely finished, but I've been hacking sugar to add an easily embeddable chat for activities, check the attached screenshot with the necessary code (that's _all_ the code

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-09-04 Thread Release Team
= Approved requests = notify::active behaviour change http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7856 ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] big images, resized images, SVG files

2008-09-04 Thread Walter Bender
For that matter, Browse can render SVG files directly. We had discussed this in Austin. It'd be great if there were a simple way to do a Sugar screen capture as SVG as opposed to PNG. Not sure if that would work for all of the GTK components, but everything else is native SVG. -walter

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] big images, resized images, SVG files

2008-09-04 Thread Erik Blankinship
Nirav, a GSoC intern, worked on some amazing image recognition tools for the XO's camera, in sugar. I wonder if anything that he worked on would be applicable? If the speed and performance are the metrics, image processing might not be the best option. Perhaps every viewable component can

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tomeu, Pardon my ignorance but what are screenshots in this context? rtfm links welcome too. Explain what is different about what the end user would see on the screen before and after this change. Then I can ask around and get some opinions on whether this is a cost worth bearing for

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:42:32AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached patch to Sugar (most recent git head, 48dd24c6e) does simply that. Andrés Ambrois and I have tested the changes in question on a

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tomeu, Pardon my ignorance but what are screenshots in this context? rtfm links welcome too. These are used in the detailed view in the journal. Explain what is different about what the end user would see on the screen

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 06:50:00PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tomeu, Pardon my ignorance but what are screenshots in this context? rtfm links welcome too. These are used in the detailed view in the journal.

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Guys, OK I think I get it. Isn't the Icon in the journal always the same for any given activity? That is, any time I use and/or keep a write document it shows the same write icon. What is different about the journal icon from one write instance to another? I think we need that icon but

[sugar] Fragmenting or providing a foothold?

2008-09-04 Thread David Farning
It appears that the consensus is to keep activity developers and sugar developers united on the same ML. Instead of talking specifically about the activities list, I would like to talk more generally about community growth. This discussion is premised on the belief that the future of the Sugar

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Isn't the Icon in the journal always the same for any given activity? That's what the TITLE FIELD in the Activity is for -- to distinguish (in the journal) between multiple uses of that same activity. Admittedly, some kids may have a better visual memory than textual skills. But the

Re: [sugar] Sugar on the BeagleBoard using the OpenEmbedded toolkit.

2008-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op 22 aug 2008, om 02:29 heeft David Farning het volgende geschreven: Welcome to the Sugar on the BeagleBoard project. It seems that we have all of the pieces in

Re: [sugar] Sugar on the BeagleBoard using the OpenEmbedded toolkit.

2008-09-04 Thread Walter Bender
The folks who have been interested in the OLPC for health may be interested. -walter On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op 22 aug

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] big images, resized images, SVG files

2008-09-04 Thread Seth Woodworth
I've been talking to Eben (a sugar-designer) about how to wrangle svg out of screenshots. svg's make a lot more sense in the long term documentation sense. svg's are going to be a *lot* easier to translate than a series of png's. Not to mention some kind of svg tool would be great for children

Re: [sugar] Sugar on the BeagleBoard using the OpenEmbedded toolkit.

2008-09-04 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
That's truth one could run for example measure on top of sugar (on the beagleboard) and beging to do some bio signal special adaptations in order to make a low-cost health module-analyser. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The folks who have been interested

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:57:49PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: Hi Guys, OK I think I get it. Isn't the Icon in the journal always the same for any given activity? Yes. But the screenshot is for the preview in the detail page of a given journal entry. When you get to an XO, click on the

Re: [sugar] finding sugarlabs.org resources

2008-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:15 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Mikus, when the appropriate lists are decided on and created, you will find them at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ I could find lists.sugarlabs.org now that I knew what I was looking for (and did not use the sugarlabs.org search

[sugar] Please help test our new best 8.2.0 candidate, 8.2-759!

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Stone
We got an awesome new 8.2 candidate build, 8.2-759, valid until Wednesday, September 10. Its changelog is available here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/018843.html (except that we decided to hold off on the #7415 patch) Please help test it according to the

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I think I get it. Isn't the Icon in the journal always the same for any given activity? They are talking about _documents_, not _programs_. The word activity is just wrong here to designate either :-p The screenshots are

Re: [sugar] Developing activities.

2008-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:25 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: 1. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. We have discussed this a few time over the last few months. Now that we are getting distro (other the OLPC) related comments the time seems right 2. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list.

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] REVISED screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Erik Garrison
Devs, Attached to this email are both the original patch, which removes automated screenshot acquisition from the sugar shell, and a patch to activity.py in sugar-toolkit which adds screenshot acquisition to the user-directed 'keep' (save) event, so that the screenshot can appear in the journal

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] REVISED screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Attached to this email are both the original patch, which removes automated screenshot acquisition from the sugar shell, and a patch to activity.py in sugar-toolkit which adds screenshot acquisition to the user-directed 'keep' (save) event, so that the screenshot can