Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Giovanna: Why not to enable shut-down from the XO icon of any of the standard view? The icon is always there in the middle of screen but works only in one... (in general, maybe enabling the hoovering menu in all of

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-10-13 Thread Release Team
= New requests = Add a sugar-open application http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8817 = Approved requests = Battery fully charged shows up in error (battery is removed) http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5867 ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Then we should not have a shutdown button at all :) Even though this comment was accompanied by a smiley, a software shutdown button somewhere is useful. I use a wired connection, and therefore don't use suspend: suspend stops the wired connection, and resume does not restart it correctly.

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Jerome Gotangco
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then we should not have a shutdown button at all :) Even though this comment was accompanied by a smiley, a software shutdown button somewhere is useful. I agree with this. I was with my (almost) 7 year old daughter

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then we should not have a shutdown button at all :) Even though this comment was accompanied by a smiley, a software shutdown button somewhere is useful. Sure, I was ironic... The point was that shutdown is a use

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 13.10.2008 um 15:35 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: jerome wrote: I agree with this. I was with my (almost) 7 year old daughter yesterday and she was studying scratch with 767 and after an hour of playing around, she told me that she wants to turn it off (the XO) but she couldn't determine

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Carlo Falciola
- Messaggio originale - Da: Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: sugar@lists.laptop.org; Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: Lunedì 13 ottobre 2008, 15:26:18 Oggetto: Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simon wrote:

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
Carlo Falciola wrote: - Messaggio originale - Da: Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: sugar@lists.laptop.org; Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: Lunedì 13 ottobre 2008, 15:26:18 Oggetto: Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: But this power-button UI could be in addition to a regular menu, which should not be invoked from the home view but from the frame's device section. A computer device was already brought up for something else that I

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Carlo Falciola
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.dewrote: But this power-button UI could be in addition to a regular menu, which should not be invoked from the home view but from the frame's device section. A computer device was already brought up for something else

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
Carlo Falciola wrote: Hi, during past week-end I spent a few hours playing with the 676 -Candidate , mainly in order to check translated strings here an there. Then let my very personal user base (My children: Nicola, 7 and Giovanna, 6) to play a bit with the updated XO. After these

Re: [sugar] Updated sugar packages for Ubuntu hardy available

2008-10-13 Thread Morgan Collett
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 20:55, Philippe Clérié [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick install on Intrepid and it failed to start. It's looking for a missing /usr/bin/sugar. Also, there is no sugar-emulator package. Philippe Thanks for logging

[sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Carlo Falciola
Hi, during past week-end I spent a few hours playing with the 676 -Candidate , mainly in order to check translated strings here an there. Then let my very personal user base (My children: Nicola, 7 and Giovanna, 6) to play a bit with the updated XO. After these user sessions we have a very

[sugar] convert_profile crashes on ubuntu

2008-10-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I suspect this issue is related to sugar-jhbuild running on Ubuntu: Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/tomeu/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/sugar-session, line 95, in module main() File /home/tomeu/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/sugar-session, line 62, in main

Re: [sugar] Putting stuff inside the datastore for non-activities

2008-10-13 Thread Morgan Collett
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:10, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. It looks like for remote files, mozplugger is creating the tmpfile in instancedir/tmp mozplugger is probably reading $TMPDIR, which we set. You can change that setting if you want. Next, the DS is unable

Re: [sugar] convert_profile crashes on ubuntu

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, I suspect this issue is related to sugar-jhbuild running on Ubuntu: Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/tomeu/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/sugar-session, line 95, in module main() File /home/tomeu/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/sugar-session, line 62, in

[sugar] Annotation (was Re: Viewing PDFs from Browse)

2008-10-13 Thread Samuel Klein
Annotation is different from editing and original creation. A user can in fact annotate a file or document they do not have locally. I find that use case more likely than the alternative; I have never succeeded in pushing a book report upstream into a publisher's next edition. Annotation,

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread pgf
simon wrote: Carlo Falciola wrote: Giovanna: Why not to enable shut-down from the XO icon of any of the standard view? The icon is always there in the middle of screen but works only in one... (in general, maybe enabling the hoovering menu in all of the views Home,

[sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, What would be the best way to launch any activity from another activity ? An example where this is required would be #8774 where teachers from Uruguay are complaining that they are not being able to directly open hyperlinks embedded in PDFs from Read. Ideally when the user clicks on the

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread pgf
jerome wrote: I agree with this. I was with my (almost) 7 year old daughter yesterday and she was studying scratch with 767 and after an hour of playing around, she told me that she wants to turn it off (the XO) but she couldn't determine how as there is no obvious way of doing so from

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:15, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What would be the best way to launch any activity from another activity ? An example where this is required would be #8774 where teachers from Uruguay are complaining that they are not being able to directly

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-13 Thread Samuel Klein
Tomeu: Scott: I think more like: Nov 17-20: talks and hacking Nov 21: priorities meeting, wrapup. I'm not the planning committee, but this would be what I'd like to see. Works for me. Should we be concerned that talk (or aguing) might expand so much that there's little time to take

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:45:54PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, What would be the best way to launch any activity from another activity ? An example where this is required would be #8774 where teachers from Uruguay are complaining that they are not being able to directly open hyperlinks

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:45:54PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, What would be the best way to launch any activity from another activity ? An example where this is required would be #8774 where teachers from

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-13 Thread Ed McNierney
Folks - I would like to spend some time this week getting a bit more consensus on the goals and agenda for this conversation before we get too far ahead with planning and invitations. I don't want to spend the first day setting the scope and expectations for the week only to discover that some

Re: [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi all, you may have already noticed, but we've got a Sugar spin based on Fedora up here: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso The image itself is already a few days old, and there will be a new one soonish -- but I wanted to wait with a new

Re: [sugar] Annotation (was Re: Viewing PDFs from Browse)

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:02:03AM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: Annotation is different from editing and original creation. Unless you are being intentionally vague (as I often am), please be more precise. I argue that since annotation is clearly comprised of both editing and original creation of a

Re: [sugar] New jhbuild dependency: gconf bindings

2008-10-13 Thread Morgan Collett
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 20:20, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, we now require the gconf bindings. I added sysdep for Fedora but I need someone to do debian and ubuntu. Done for Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04. Regards Morgan ___ Sugar

[sugar] sugar-jhbuild on ubuntu feisty deprecated

2008-10-13 Thread Morgan Collett
Anyone using sugar-jhbuild on Ubuntu feisty (7.04)? That distro release is approaching support EOL, and its jhbuild config for Sugar is very out of date as I haven't got a feisty machine around to check the package names etc. Please speak up if you object to me removing

Re: [sugar] Annotation (was Re: Viewing PDFs from Browse)

2008-10-13 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only when (some or all of) Object-2 gets folded in to Object-1 does attribution become important: [Object-1 paragraph3 as edited by Jim Jones; Object-1 paragraph22 as added (originated by) Sam Smith]. But when such

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Morgan wrote: Hopefully Rainbow will grow a mechanism for activities to request it to launch other activities given certain restrictions. ++1 Please include discussion of such a mechanism in the 0.84/9.1/future planning session that is coming up in mid-November. mikus

[sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-10-13

2008-10-13 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. Collect, Select, Reflect: I had a timely visit from Prof. Evangeline Harris Stefanakis this week. Stefanakis is the author of Multiple Intelligences and Portfolios: a Window into the Learner's Mind. We met to discuss ways in which we could further the support for portfolio

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-13 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
You brought this idea on irc a few weeks ago, which I liked a lot, and Eben too If I remember it right. That a device icon representing the laptop be added to the frame, having the menu to shutdown, reboot, and control panel (or system settings). The XO figure would only have about me which would