Hi,
I started work on a Screencast activity tonight. It's a frontend to
recordMyDesktop, which is the program Scott used for his screencasts.
Having a program on the XO that's capable of preparing shareable
tutorials could help out a lot with support, by allowing walkthroughs
to be prepared by
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I started work on a Screencast activity tonight. It's a frontend to
recordMyDesktop, which is the program Scott used for his screencasts.
Having a program on the XO that's capable of preparing shareable
tutorials could
I'd like to catch up on the progress of Cerebro, telepathy-synapse and
other ideas for scalable link local presence before we get into
planning this feature for Sugar 0.84:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/0.84/Collaboration#Scalable_link_local_presence
Can we have a meeting next week to
We wrote a screencasting library a while back. It might be useful to
whoever shepherds this type of library to compare implementations. Here is
what the sample activity does with the library:
- Click to start recording a screencast.
- Type something witty that you want recorded.
- Click
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I started work on a Screencast activity tonight. It's a frontend to
recordMyDesktop, which is the program Scott used for his screencasts.
Having a program on the XO that's capable of preparing shareable
tutorials could
Hi Morgan,
I'm available.
Pol
On 10/17/2008 07:45 AM, Morgan Collett wrote:
I'd like to catch up on the progress of Cerebro, telepathy-synapse and
other ideas for scalable link local presence before we get into
planning this feature for Sugar 0.84:
The Monster Lake release.
Highlights:
- Support for constraining activity search results.
- Various bug fixes.
- Adds load simulation tools for testing purposes.
- Support for multi criteria search.
Tarballs: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/gadget/
G.
Hi there,
with the generous help from #sugar devs I managed to get ltsp, sugar
and collaboration via ejabberd working on Ubuntu. This is really
exciting as it means walking into an existing networked lab with a
laptop, connecting it to the LAN, firing up sugar and letting all the
terminals enjoy
This is a set of patches I worked on recently, and need to rebase on
the latest jhbuild before I post them officially. I wanted to expose
them for comments before I put in that effort, since there are no
doubt other things that will need to be changed upon review.
Thanks!
- Eben
PS. I just
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hi there,
with the generous help from #sugar devs I managed to get ltsp, sugar
and collaboration via ejabberd working on Ubuntu. This is really
exciting as it means walking into an existing networked lab with a
On 17 Oct 2008, at 14:01, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* We should avoid having the activity itself be present in the
videos;
perhaps by minimizing it immediately before starting recording,
and then setting up a globally-bound
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a set of patches I worked on recently, and need to rebase on
the latest jhbuild before I post them officially. I wanted to expose
them for comments before I put in that effort, since there are no
doubt other things
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a set of patches I worked on recently, and need to rebase on
the latest jhbuild before I post them officially. I wanted to expose
them for
Hey all,
I've been working on packaging Sugar for Ubuntu, and have looked forward to
what will be Sugar (and Ubuntu )'s next release cycle.
Per http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap , it seems that the first
release candidate of Sugar will be out on Feb. 13th. Afterward, I take it
there
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Luke Faraone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been working on packaging Sugar for Ubuntu, and have looked forward to
what will be Sugar (and Ubuntu )'s next release cycle.
Per http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap , it seems that the first
release candidate
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Recordmydesktop is using /tmp as an intermediate location, which
means that a long screencast runs the XO into OOM (or worse).
export TMPDIR=$HOME/instance
in your wrapper should help a lot here.
* It reuses the icon
Yes, what you've described is more-or-less the plan of record: don't
store any metadata which can be extracted from the actual content, and
use plugins in the indexing service to extract interesting metadata
from a variety of real formats. The few bits of metadata which
can't be representing in
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Luke Faraone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
I've been working on packaging Sugar for Ubuntu, and have looked forward to
what will be Sugar (and Ubuntu )'s next release cycle.
Per http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap , it seems that the first
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I expect that a concrete schedule will be hammered out during the Nov
17 joint OLPC 9.1/Sugarlabs 0.84 planning meeting. I hope that OLPC's
schedule will not drift much from Sugarlab's, because it is
counterproductive
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An OLPC miniconference will be held November 17-21, 2008 at our
Cambridge offices (10th floor, 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, USA)
[...]
Please submit proposals for topics to cover. These may include, but
are not limited
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually feature freeze is 21 December. We might decide to push it off a
bit, but I don't think it will go after 18 February. So I think we are good
in respect of Ubuntu schedule!
Hm. Looks like OLPC will skip 0.84
As described at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_reloaded, I've been
working on some next generation Journal code, borrowing liberally
from ideas presented by many people. I will present the current
status of the work, solicit ideas and feedback, and propose a roadmap
for getting as much as
Thank you, Scott!
Yes, what you've described is more-or-less the plan of record: don't
store any metadata which can be extracted from the actual content, and
use plugins in the indexing service to extract interesting metadata
from a variety of real formats.
Good. So I wasn't so off. I
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually feature freeze is 21 December. We might decide to push it off a
bit, but I don't think it will go after 18 February. So I think
I'd like to present a few areas where sugar can play nice with
others, including:
* replacing the matchbox window manager, to provide better
multiple-window support for legacy apps (think of the 'gimp', running
as multiple windows without one full-screen activity area aka
virtual desktop)
*
I'd like our antitheft support to be more of a feature which G1G1
users could elect to enable, if they like. This involved making it
much more visible and configurable, most likely putting it in the
control panel. The idea is if you are taking a trip or leaving home
for a few days, you could
I'd like to make a presentation on how our current update mechanism
works, and outline a plan for some improvements.
* Real COW for pristine versions, allowing... ticket #3581
* ...binary-diff updates over http (avoiding rsync in many cases)
ticket #4259, etc
* Integration of core OS
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* making sugar behave well when run in non-full-screen-mode under
metacity. This includes refactoring home/friends/mesh view as
operations on root window, so they make sense in a multiwindow setup.
(It's been
Hi,
I noticed an IRC conversation this morning asking whether Joyride is
open for 9.1 development -- after checking with Scott and Michael, the
answer is that it absolutely is. Please don't push broken code, though,
since we'd like Joyride to remain usable for everyone.
The current plan is to
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current plan is to wait until F10 is released (end of November)
before rebasing Joyride onto it.
But the decision to rebase has been made?
Thanks,
Marco
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually feature freeze is 21 December. We might decide to
can we stop referring to anything non-sugary as a legacy app.
i'd submit that we all use dozens of such apps every day, most
of which are in no danger of going away anytime soon. :-)
how about referring to them as existing X11 apps.
paul
c. scott ananian wrote:
I'd like to present a few
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually feature freeze is 21 December. We might decide to
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can we stop referring to anything non-sugary as a legacy app.
i'd submit that we all use dozens of such apps every day, most
of which are in no danger of going away anytime soon. :-)
I'm using standard desktop applications :)
Marco
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can we stop referring to anything non-sugary as a legacy app.
i'd submit that we all use dozens of such apps every day, most
of which are in no danger of
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's hammer this out in person at the planning meeting, because it
depends on OLPC picking a release date.
Yeah, make sense. As I said, I think we (as SL) should defer decisions about
the freeze slip until the
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:07:58PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I'd like to present a few areas where sugar can play nice with
others, including:
* replacing the matchbox window manager, to provide better
multiple-window support for legacy apps (think of the 'gimp', running
as multiple
2008/10/17 Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current plan is to wait until F10 is released (end of November)
before rebasing Joyride onto it.
But the decision to rebase has been made?
Well, I believe Michael,
Hello,
commit dd2c13d56672d7ff7e69f59138c1bf3493e3dddf
Author: Guillaume Desmottes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Oct 17 17:37:36 2008 +0100
upgrade to telepathy-glib 0.7.17
This adds a dependency on glib 2.16. It would mean to drop support for
Fedora 8 and the equivalent Ubuntu version. My
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apart from the window manager stuff - something I will probably be
working on is support for standard .desktop files - which are used to
generate the main menu entries in standard desktops. Any .desktop file
installed
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for
managing mimetype associations and installing activities?
Good point. I've
I'm proposing a talk I really want Michael Stone to give. But I'm
willing to lead off with a short talk on things I'd like to see in
9.1:
* Implementation of P_SF_CORE, P_SF_RUN
* Validating new versions of an activity.
* Mechanism to validate updates to loopholed activities allow
XO Users,
In short, I have bundled a set of 'hacks' which generally (and in my
observation, dramatically) improve the user-perceived responsiveness of
the Sugar UI. The hack bundle is available at
http://dev.laptop.org/~erik/faster-hacks.zip
I write requesting independent evaluation of the
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way it's done right now is to copy mime information to ~/.local at
installation time.
I know. I personally don't like requiring an installation step, and
I think it might be easier to keep the random bits of XDG
I expect Sayamindu can probably give a better talk than me on this.
But I'm willing to give a short talk on translation things I'd like
to see in 9.1:
* multiple languages, multiple places: translation system
should look in local, then activity, then system translation tables,
then repeat for
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C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I expect Sayamindu can probably give a better talk than me on this.
But I'm willing to give a short talk on translation things I'd like
to see in 9.1:
* multiple languages, multiple places: translation system
should
I've wanted to see a consistent off-line caching architecture in our
system for a while. Some ideas:
* Integration of wwwoffle with small local cache
* Content bundles to seed that cache
* Mechanism to request downloads later
Basically, I'd like to unify the Wikibrowse activity,
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I expect Sayamindu can probably give a better talk than me on this.
But I'm willing to give a short talk on translation things I'd like
to see in 9.1:
* multiple languages, multiple
This is another talk I'd really rather someone else give, but I can
give a brief talk on our current status problems desires if it is
helpful.
OLPC has forks of a number of Fedora packages, for a number of
reasons. We've been trying to keep better track of the what why, at
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:05 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Installing a content bundle should be almost exactly the same thing as
installing new content into the offline cache, with only some small
hook for making it appear in the XO home page. Much of the fancy
I had a number
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:59 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As described at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_reloaded, I've been
working on some next generation Journal code, borrowing liberally
Other ideas from my Journal improvements to-do list:
* Proper display of 'new
We should consider adding basic Print support for 9.1. In the past
this has foundered on questions like, what brand(s) of printers?
what connection mechanism? It seems impossible to support every
printer and every connection mechanism in a reasonable amount of NAND
space.
*But*, we should be
Hello,
I would like to talk on some of the enhancements that some of us have
been speaking about the i18n/l10n on the XO. The areas I would like to
cover include:
a) Input methods: Out current input system (XKB) is not enough for
Chinese/Japanese/Korean, and even existing customers like Ethiopia
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way it's done right now is to copy mime information to ~/.local at
installation time.
I know. I personally don't like requiring an
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:28 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I expect Sayamindu can probably give a better talk than me on this.
But I'm willing to give a short talk on translation things I'd like
to see in 9.1:
* multiple languages, multiple places: translation system
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
c) Language packs: The current system of language packs is not very
reliable (it overwrites the original translations in the system,
installations cannot be easily undone, no versioning, etc). I want to
switch to a
Great Work David!
How long do you think it will take to push modified ejabber .debs through the
Ubuntu packaging process?
thanks
David
On 10/17/2008, 11:10, David Van Assche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:Hi there,
with the generous help from #sugar devs I managed to get ltsp, sugar and
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
c) Language packs: The current system of language packs is not very
reliable (it overwrites the original translations in the system,
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gah - I just submitted a proposal ;-).
Maybe we can have a joint talk ?
Multiple talks on the same topic are great! There's no problem there.
Marco's going to give a talk on the legacy app support and I hope
you'll
On Friday 17 October 2008 17:56:05 Erik Garrison wrote:
XO Users,
In short, I have bundled a set of 'hacks' which generally (and in my
observation, dramatically) improve the user-perceived responsiveness of
the Sugar UI. The hack bundle is available at
On Saturday 18 October 2008 03:35:14 Andrés Ambrois wrote:
Here are a couple of more patches for your bag of tricks:
*Gah* forgot the attachments
--
-Andrés
--- tabbinghandler.py.bak 2008-10-17 20:04:11.0 +
+++ tabbinghandler.py 2008-10-18 00:19:06.0 +
@@ -15,6
On Saturday 18 October 2008 03:45:49 Andrés Ambrois wrote:
On Saturday 18 October 2008 03:35:14 Andrés Ambrois wrote:
Here are a couple of more patches for your bag of tricks:
*Gah* forgot the attachments
Its almost 4 am here, please bear with me...
Scratch that first one, here is
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