Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:31 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can's mdns/avahi help with discovery? it'd be a shame to have to manually configure a server address or name. DNS-SD is the Right Answer (which is not exactly

[sugar] Proposals for XO Mini-conference Due by Monday October 27

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are planning a mini-conference at OLPC headquarters November 17 - 21. For more information, see the conference wiki page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 Please post any proposals for talks directly on the wiki page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Proposals Starting at

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Walter Bender
I think that any activity that goes to the trouble of building their own view source mechanism can handle the added overhead of adding a line to the activity.info file. Seems like that is the easiest path. Doesn't it have any negative repercussions in the long term? -walter On Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread pgf
tomeu -- excellent! thanks for helping make progress on this. tomeu wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/viewsource.py This approach has a good thing that is that works everywhere, but has a major problem: doesn't let activities override it and handle themselves the view source key

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 14:53 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: Hi, I think that with a small effort, we could implement something much better than what we have today. We have glorious plans for the view source key, but as no resources have been devoted to them, perhaps we should scale back and make sure

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity would have to handle that key, which is fragile. I'd opt for the shell always handling

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread pgf
bert wrote: Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity would have to handle that key, which is fragile. I'd opt for

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 15:33 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: bert wrote: Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity would have to handle

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure, that's fine. but i think we need to keep thinking about how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with every new feature we do (as well as with every revision of old features). I've got a half-baked idea about

[sugar] GNOME journal

2008-10-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-10.html#23 It's nice to not feel alone in this space anymore, isn't it?? Also finally a little of credit which doesn't hurt :) Marco ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-23 Thread genesee
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I'm requesting discussion of two other improvements to control facilities: One more? Software Updates defaults all available Activities pre-selected. Their boxes checked, in other words. I would rather choose the updates I want than de-select the ones I don't. Some

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-23 Thread Eben Eliason
I can sympathize with this perspective. Traditionally, software updates only update software which is already installed. In this perspective, I could see one expecting all those activities already installed being selected by default, and others left unchecked for one to select as desired. On the

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

2008-10-23 Thread genesee
Of course you are right. I see now how my perspective as an isolated G1G1 user does not always jive with the primary XO users, A.K.A. the children of the world! If specific deployments are using custom Activity Groups, then my point is moot. My experience is with the various groups on the wiki,