Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Wade Brainerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These issues could best be solved by a sugar-webcontent-activity package which is shipped by default. It would contain the Browse GUI classes plus a template Activity class. It would also provide a base WebServer class

Re: [sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello, I spent some time trying to nail down the concrete changes we will need to properly support standard desktop applications in Sugar 0.84. Here are some notes. It's *not* a huge amount of work and I think we

[sugar] 18 patches waiting for review

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, we are really sucking at patch reviews lately... We should try and get all of them reviewed by next week. Marco ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I spent some time trying to nail down the concrete changes we will need to properly support standard desktop applications in Sugar 0.84. Here are some notes. It's *not* a huge amount of work and I think we should really do it. 1 sugar.graphics.icon needs support for pixbufs #8661. 2

Re: [sugar] journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:40 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: file artifacts in the journal--the process went something like this-insert a flash drive to the xo that has a lot of files on it from windows computer, they show up in journal, remove flash drive, erase many of the files on

Re: [sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Wade Brainerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 11 replace matchbox with a more traditional desktop window manager, with the ability to fullscreen windows when appropriate. I've been

Re: [sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I spent some time trying to nail down the concrete changes we will need to properly support standard desktop applications in Sugar 0.84. Here are some notes. It's *not* a huge amount of work and I think we

[sugar] API policy

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, for 0.84 we are planning to refactor and start stabilizing our public API. Given the high pressure to ship and the very early involvement of activity authors, our API quality is currently not as good as we would like it and is going to require substantial changes. An important part of the

Re: [sugar] API policy

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Deprecated: sugar.profile sugar.activity.registry sugar.clipboard.* The last two should be actually Unstable, not Deprecated. Marco ___ Sugar mailing list

Re: [sugar] API policy

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Datastore service - stable Presence service - stable These are the two which, along with their python wrappers, I consider most controversial . If we make deep changes to the journal and collaboration, it might be

Re: [sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-12 Thread Albert Cahalan
Marco Pesenti Gritti writes: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Wade Brainerd wadetb at gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.comwrote: 11 replace matchbox with a more traditional desktop window manager, with the ability to fullscreen windows

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Oct 2008, at 00:26, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: I was thinking along similar terms, and here's the screenshot of the latest version: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/Screenshot.png To get this in your own

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-12 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Walter Bender wrote: Does it even make sense to make annotation tools for PDF as a general concept? Why try to distort a proprietary, read-only data format into something it isn't. PDF is not proprietary. PDF/X-1 became an ANSI standard as early as '99, PDF/X-1a