[sugar] Module Proposal: Jukebox activity

2008-10-14 Thread Kushal Das
Hello, I would like to propose the inclusion of the Jukebox Activity into Fructose: * Short description of the features: Media player with the following features * plays both video and audio * m3u and pls playlist file support * volume control * Fullscreen display * Screenshots or

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

2008-10-14 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:32, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: For non-XO Sugar, it would be nice to be able to log out as oppose to shutdown. (Yes, you can always ctrl-alt-delete, but that is not exactly friendly. Yeah, I agree. I filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8815 a few days ago

Re: [sugar] Window manager support for standard applications

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:10:14PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: 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

Re: [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip I tried this on windows xp. I unzipped the directory on the Desktop and run the executable. It didn't work. I'm attaching the log... any idea? Marco

[sugar] Some feedback from your responses to: notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-14 Thread elana langer
Thanks for all these suggestions. This is helpful. In many cases the local team here came up with similar solutions to cope with the existing tech problems. (like saving to a USB etc.) Reuben and Tyler have been great at suggesting 'fixes' to those problems. What I am trying to offer the

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

2008-10-14 Thread elana langer
Here are some notes from Cris Anderson, one of my interns this summer who is fluent in Mongolian. Because of his language and technical skills he heard a lot of these issues first hand. From Cris: Tech problems I have noticed: file artifacts in the journal--the process went something like

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Oct 10, 2008, at 8:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mikus wrote: Talking about copy-from-journal and copy-to-journal: can you provide a pointer to these scripts? Try 'which'. On my XO they're in /usr/bin. doh! i guess i don't use my XO as much as i thought! when you said written by

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can transfers files between systems, (in the absence of an XS server), using a light weight web server such as boa To install boa on the XO: su - yum install boa If you want more details on how to configure boa let me know and I will post the instructions. I use boa to pull log files

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-14 Thread rihoward1
You can transfers files between systems, (in the absence of an XS server), using a light weight web server such as boa To install boa on the XO: su - yum install boa If you want more details on how to configure boa let me know and I will post the instructions. I use boa to pull log files

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

2008-10-14 Thread Eben Eliason
Hi all, sorry I'm late on this thread. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [sugar] Launching activities from other activities

2008-10-14 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morgan wrote: Hopefully Rainbow will grow a mechanism for activities to request it to launch other activities given certain restrictions. += MAX_INT Heh. I really think we need this. The current solution really is a

Re: [sugar] notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-14 Thread Deniz Kural
I see how my email wasn't so nice. Apologies for increasing the animosity level. I was merely trying show how USB transfer from: 1) Xo to Xo 2) Other platform to Xo could be useful. Marco, I'm glad to have provoked a laugh, I was indeed joking. I don't even know you. I agree with Martin -- I

[sugar] Sugar Clock

2008-10-14 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: | On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Carlo : nowhere in the default GUI there is a clock, even if, in the control panel there is a panel to configure it. I think that personal watches are

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) I made a new one, but then left it in my computer at home!

Re: [sugar] Sugar Clock

2008-10-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: | On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Carlo : nowhere in the default GUI there is a clock, even if, in the

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-14 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Caroline Meeks I posted my notes from the visit to Fenway today: http://schoolkey.net/blog/2008/10/08/first-meeting-with-future-engineers-at-fenway-high-school Very exciting, thanks for

Re: [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip I tried this on windows xp. I unzipped the directory on the Desktop and run the executable.

Re: [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Luke Macken
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:19:44PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip I tried this on windows xp. I unzipped the directory on the Desktop and run the

Re: [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Luke Macken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:19:44PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip

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

2008-10-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: the following is a somewhat off-topic metacomment: ... I do not know what you mean by 'works best'. Most remote annotation occurs offline and is never aggregated, but works just fine for the production of notes for one's personal journal. We would be better off if there were a

Re: [sugar] Sugar Clock

2008-10-14 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: | Crazy idea: put in the frame a widget that only updates (and displays) | itself 20 seconds after the mouse has been over it. If it was an | analog clock, the arms could dissolve when it stops updating, if a | digital clock, it

Re: [sugar] Sugar Clock

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 07:51:23PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]the system could easily suspend with the clock displayed [...] [...] Crazy idea: put in the frame a widget that only updates (and displays) itself

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-14 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also like to stop calling this 9.1 planning. We need to plan Sounds like it is time for a naming contest for this [repeating] event. Some that have been suggested / implied: OLPCSW [08.11.1] OLPC Miniconference

[sugar] Reminder: Demo of next-gen journal ideas *tomorrow noon* @ 1cc

2008-10-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be giving a demo of some next-generation journal ideas (and code) at noon Wednesday at OLPC's 1cc offices. I'll make sure to have it recorded, and you can expect it posted online shortly afterwards (for all those

[sugar] Announcing the General Availability of XO Software Release 8.2.0

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
Announcing the General Availability of XO Software Release 8.2.0 XO Software Release 8.2.0 was developed by OLPC engineers and the OLPC open source community. The XO and its software is the only major computing platform designed specifically for the educational benefit of children in the

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Luke Macken
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:55:12PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Luke Macken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:19:44PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-14 Thread Bill Kerr
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler, and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of narrative as it might apply to a user interface designed for engaging children in the world of

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) I made a new one, but then left it in my computer at home! I did bring my XO and everyone liked it of course. I posted my notes

Re: [sugar] Sugar Clock

2008-10-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Oct 2008, at 18:40, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: | On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Carlo : nowhere in the default GUI there is a clock, even if, in the control panel

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good progress! Test results. - It does not work on my IBM Thinkpad laptop. Looks like a video driver issue? It appears to boot, gets through the progress bar but then I get a blank white screen. Feels

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also like to stop calling this 9.1 planning. We need to plan the development work we need to get done, regardless of whether that work will be able to ship next March. At a certain point we will have some of this

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

2008-10-14 Thread Walter Bender
For non-XO Sugar, it would be nice to be able to log out as oppose to shutdown. (Yes, you can always ctrl-alt-delete, but that is not exactly friendly.) -walter On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/13 Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct

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

2008-10-14 Thread Garrett Goebel
Elana Langer wrote from Mongolia: basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - especially if it is more than a few days old. This is why everyone is desperate to save their projects on USB keys. This

Re: [sugar] Sugar Clock

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:32:31PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: PS - we should all stop arguing and just make a clock widget, finally. http://dev.laptop.org/~mdengler/clock/screenshot_clock_01.png Halfway done...now to stop arguing :) From 346eea009cb645e176c2106386596dada9aeeed8 Mon Sep 17

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-14 Thread Samuel Klein
Does it make sense to have an afternoon or a full day about long-term plans and their implications for immediate priorities and tests? Try to capture topics that could be specific agenda items with their own session or conversation -- by creating a separate thread about it on the list, a separate

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:15:31PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also like to stop calling this 9.1 planning. We need to plan the development work we need to get done, regardless of whether that work will be

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Luke Macken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:19:44PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
Good progress! Test results. - It does not work on my IBM Thinkpad laptop. Looks like a video driver issue? It appears to boot, gets through the progress bar but then I get a blank white screen. - USB Boot works on my Pentium IV 2GB test machine but I can't shutdown. Nothing

Re: [sugar] Sugar USB testing

2008-10-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Caroline Meeks I posted my notes from the visit to Fenway today:

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Marco, I'd like a Wiki page where you and I can track tasks that need to be done before I can do the next test run at each of the 2 schools and also write down which version of Sugar we plan to test next at which school. Should I make a page on the Sugarlabs site or should I set it up on the

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
- It does not work on my IBM Thinkpad laptop. Looks like a video driver issue? It appears to boot, gets through the progress bar but then I get a blank white screen. Feels like it yeah. It would be good to run the F10 beta on it to confirm that it's not specific to the Sugar