Re: [sugar] Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EST)

2008-03-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'll be having a software status meeting on irc.freenode.net / > #olpc-meeting today (Wednesday) at 2pm EST. Damn - that was right through a meeting - are the IRC logs archived anywhere? cheers, m ___

Re: [sugar] Summer of Code update, meeting tomorrow 2100 UTC

2008-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > of quick discussions about SoC tomorrow (saturday) at 2100 UTC / 1700 EST in > #olpc. Please join us to share advice to share from SoC's past, find out Fantastic - I will be there to discuss XS stuff :-) cheers, m --

Re: [sugar] Activities are recompiled on every launch

2008-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # time python -c "import compileall; > compileall.compile_dir('/usr/share/activities/TamTamEdit.activity/', > force=True, quiet=True)" > real 0m3.902s > user 0m3.460s > sys 0m0.440s > > All measurements were

Re: [sugar] GVFS, OLPC, and GIT ?

2008-03-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |> sufficiently generic to encompass multiple versions. I do not fully > |> grasp the layering between GIO and GVFS. Be aware that GIO/GVFS are very high level. In other words, they work for the Gnome guys becau

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars & Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-03-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here I'd have to say that, despite the knowledge that all activities > will run fullscreen, we should try to avoid developing to a particular > piece of hardware (and it's resolution). Hmmm. That sounds impossible. Your

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] sugar roadmap

2008-04-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Anyhow, speaking as someone who has only very recently gotten involved > | with the project, I can say that the Sugar interface was one of the > | most appealing things to me. I'm sure there are other potential

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] sugar roadmap

2008-04-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Benj. Mako Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Martin Langhoff > > > Personally, I have been dreaming of a mix between ion3 and Sugar's > > > 4-zoom-stages. Talking with some hard-core ion3

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] sugar roadmap

2008-04-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the goal exactly? I can only spot two real differences from > how the Sugar shell currently works: ... > Is there anything I'm missing? Is the point to be able to run desktop > applications? Yes. A Sugar

Re: [sugar] where is Walter?

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22.04.2008 02:13, Michael Stone wrote: > > What in this description of events leads you to the conclusion that OLPC > > is "shriveling up and dying"? > Perhaps not shriveling up, but quite a few contributors

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] sugar roadmap

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/4/22 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ion also has an quite difficult upstream author. > > I'd suggest you look into awesome, see http://awesome.naquadah.org/ Looks nice. Trade difficult author for bad-choice-of-name? ;-) cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School

Re: [sugar] Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1400 EST, #olpc-meeting, irc.freenode.org

2008-04-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'll be having our weekly status meeting tomorrow at 2:00 PM EST in > #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org. Alright! That's a 6AM'er for me, but I'll be there ;-) cheers, martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sugar] DS possibilities

2008-04-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reports from the field, especially from Carla and Bryan, have indicated > that the datastore can get into a corrupted state from which it cannot > recover. The corruption persists over a reboot. After corruption

Re: [sugar] Fwd: Peru Priorities

2008-04-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A note about groups, from a discusion today: > > If there are multiple classes, and students figure out how to change their > nick &c, it would be helpful to be able to have approve-only groups to avoid > griefers popping i

Re: [sugar] [Its.an.education.project] Freedom is a good deal (Was: Ivan's latest blog entry on OLPC)

2008-05-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Steve Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No one has ever suggested giving Windows to kids; to be fair the most anyone > has proposed is leasing it to them, and we should endeavor to use the > correct words when we describe the offer. Excellent point! Why rent when

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] Problems with mesh OLPC Sur list / problemas con la malla

2008-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/5/16 Yama Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > original message follows > El problema al que hacía referencia es que > conocemos el funcionamiento >> de la malla en sí, lo que no hemos podido lograr es realizar una >> actividad colaborativa tal como se supone que debería ser. Hasta donde entiendo

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of things that we do don't meet any normal expectations of a > 'company'. Most people at OLPC will tell you we are not a 'company'. ... > I have been trying to understand it, explain it, live with it , > and improve it for

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you're basically looking for someone who doesn't mind being despised > by both OLPC staff ("God, s/he keeps bugging me, how annoying!") and the > community ("s/he knows more than s/he's telling us"). Nah. We all

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Alex Belits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then the announcement should be: Don't take it so seriously. It's a "vision" set of mockups, and the different technical aspects of how to get there will be fleshed out in time and discussed in [EMAIL PROTECTED] And when I

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You ended up with Lots of accusations :-( Have you successfully negotiated with hw vendors over innovative gear at very low cost in the past? We do make mistakes, and in some cases there are tradeoffs. It's part of doing

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
Typo - I should have written: > Grandstanding about the mistakes made is cheap, with the advantage that most > people aren't > familiar with the issues at hand. Albert also wrote > Minus the dollar figures of course, getting contracts out in > public would be very good for you. Groklaw would be a

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Sugar for the rich

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> you can get closer to the action (and contribute >> useful bug reports) by installing daily builds. > > Yes, please -- what is the URI for where the daily __builds__ are > kept which include Sucrose 0.81.1 ?? Cool. Glad

Re: [sugar] feature freeze coming

2008-06-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any patch I have forgotten and that should get in before > tomorrow feature freeze? > > Also, please remind to the list any bug fixes already with code > waiting to get in after the feature freeze. your datastore "

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:01 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm currently working with OLE Nepal to find the best solution for > synchronising online and offline course material via Moodle. There are > currently 2 projects that do exactly this via different mechanisms, though

Re: [sugar] offline Moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be speaking w/ a potential full-time volunteer today who has some > significant web development experience. I will discuss w/ him the > possibility of working almost entirely on offline Moodle for the next 12 > months.

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The developers seem highly motivated to do something that would work for > olpc too, its basically their Master's thesis, and they seem to have a good Cool. It will be great if they can help :-) > In terms of Adobe AIR

Re: [sugar] non-intuitive Neighborhood information

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I filed #7415 which might be the same issue. My AP is appearing in > Neighborhood view twice. > > This might be a general Network Manager issue: I have recently seen > APs appear on my ubuntu laptop that I last used ages ag

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, after looking a bit deeper into it, AIR isn't entirely open source, > though it uses open source parts which are interesting to us (sqlite for > example) Thanks for confirming that. > Let's wait to see what Bryan

Re: [sugar] compiling gears and rpm build

2008-07-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another thing I forgot to mention is that I go the source from the google > gears svn trunk (the only place the source is available) and I'm a little > unsure what to put into SOURCES of the rpmbuild, as the svn checkout

Re: [sugar] Relationships w/ upstream.

2008-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:37 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since a conversation on IRC got unexpectedly heated, let me restate my > personal philosophy for OLPC's relationships with upstream: I am surprised this got heated, you are right, and this isn't even controversial. This

Re: [sugar] Relationships w/ upstream.

2008-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we're all agreed that even small forks have large long-term > costs, and we'd prefer to avoid them where at all possible -- which we > all agree seems to be the case at present. Here I disagree - small and medium

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd rather see us just give up on Browse and ship and appropriately > configured Firefox. I just can't see OLPC devoting enough developer Not so fast! The XS deliverables need a custom browser on the XO for reasons we w

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser? Client > certificates work well for this function in ordinary web applications > (assuming a properly configured server). I haven't delved into this deeply yet, bu

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
Carol, give me some credit :-) I know that FF works well with client certs and apache has no problem with it. I've been coding apache/ssl aware apps since '98... > What sort of patch are you looking for? Well, there is quite a bit of thinking that needs to happen here, and I am working on someth

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:37 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) SSL overhead being "impractical"? Come on. You can use SSL on the > browser today; there is no perceptible speed difference. I agree that > client certs may be impractical, but it won't be because the XO can't > han

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin -- You state that ssl at the network layer is significant. The > question is when and how much must ssl be used to authenticate with client > certs? I believe it only needs to be used during initial authentication an

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can also anticipate Javascript performance may become an issue as its > use continues to increase. Confirming this - to work with XS-based tools nicely, JS and related tools (gears) support is a must. cheers, m -- [EMA

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can certainly produce a proof of concept for the first, > using client certs via Scott's Firefox 3. I don't think it is as hard as > you think, and I promise to provide something concrete by the end of the > weekend. Tha

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please point me to your notes on this, if you would be so kind. > > There aren't any, unfortunately. I had to read idmgr to understand the > protocol - so read the source. It is a trivial xml-

Re: [sugar] ssl authentication [was (another) WebKit port of Browse]

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an assertion, not an argument. It is also factually incorrect. And needless to argue over it if we can get instead some working code. :-) m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect

Re: [sugar] google gears rpm update

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:41 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've run into some more obstacles and learned a little more about > gears... Excellent! > 1. Having built gears from the svn trunk source for both Fedora and Ubuntu > (sudo make BROWSER=FF3 CC=gcc34 CXX=g++34 MKSHLIB

Re: [sugar] volunteer for offline Moodle

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Anderson has contacted me to find out where Nepal could use the > most help. I have informed him that offline moodle is where we could use > the most assistance. Let's get this going Cool. Hi Tony! > check out gears.go

Re: [sugar] gears and greasemonkey to take wikipedia offline

2008-07-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is an interesting article on google's code site about using Google > Gears and Greasemonkey to take wikipedia and make it work offline... This I am in general interested in that track, though it is hard to beat

Re: [sugar] ssl authentication [was (another) WebKit port of Browse]

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 12, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: >> Which IDMR - the sun one with all the usual/heavily standardized >> industry protocols - or something OLPC specific ? > > > It's not a protocol, just a small Pyth

[sugar] OLPC/Sugar related MIME Types...

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am going to add some MIME types for Apache on the XO - application/vnd.olpc-sugar xo - application/vnd.olpc-content xol - application/vnd.olpc-journal-entry xoj The above list comes from a bit of Googling about. Are there any other mime types that we care about? cheers, m -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC, Version numbers are used to communicate API/ABI compat and degree/type of changes to users. Later in this thread Eben suggests what everyone else in the i

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be happy to whip up a universal approximate ordering for version > strings in a few lines of Python. My emphasis here is on _approximate_; > nothing should depend on precisely correct interpretation of vers

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version (activity_version) is just some sortable entity to be agreed Please do read back on this - now lenghty - discussion. Unfortunately, any monotonically increasing version does _not_ work, thanks to the magic of main

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, sorry, I've clearly accidentally wandered in to a room full of hardcore :-) Sorry about the dry tone of my reply. I was trying, perhaps too hard, to avoid this thread regressing into silly-land. The current scheme is

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What _should_ be happening in this thread is the collection of use > cases. > > For a "small" selection of the issues involved, please refer to > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Bundles_1 > http://w

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After mild provocation, Marco and Tomeu asked me to publish some of my > reactions to sugar's architecture, design, and implementation. Here are > a few initial comments. Excellent analysis. +1 on it, and a couple of mino

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I regard "fully pythonic" python data as a subgraph of a > reference-counted object graph. So far as I know, Python has lots of > interesting ways to parse bytestreams into object graphs, but no great > way to read an obje

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I disagree because I think that the approach we have taken has made it >> much harder for others to help us. For a project like Sugar, this

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I'm convinced that protocol buffers and their supporting code > generators are cute, I'm also convinced that the real issue in the IPC > space is not "what marshalling format do you use?" but is, instead, > "what tool

Re: [sugar] Congratulations! but Sugar sucks

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The list of missing features needed to make Sugar a first-rate system is > really surprisingly short. Fantastic news! As Kim points out, we knew most (all?) those things already, and we are just extremely short on

Re: [sugar] Performance

2008-07-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got word from a decision maker in Uruguay that they are very > concerned about "performance". They say that Sugar is slow. I'm probing > to get more details but I want to evaluate the options in parallel. While I thin

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Williams wrote: > | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. > | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it > | complains and won't let you install it. > > That's not r

Re: [sugar] Your journal is empty

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed > ctl-alt-erase in order to "restart" Sugar. Both times. when Sugar > came up, the Journal screen told me 'Your journal is empty'. > > If "unwanted empt

Re: [sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

2008-08-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am happy to take on making this communication happen but I really > think we need this list. FWIW, Sugar + activities are still somewhat tightly coupled, as Sugar and the underlying OS API are changing. As long as that

Re: [sugar] What are the minimum requirements to use ejabberd with the XO's

2008-08-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to lock down the firewall on the XS to only allow the > services which are needed. > > For whatever reason we can no long access ejabberd from the XO's > > 1. the fully-qualified ejabberd name is correct on the

Re: [sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

2008-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience the activity developer community has lost many > participants already. Perhaps they weren't going to stay anyway, > beyond an initial ... > I personally found the best approach was to follow all communicat

Re: [sugar] Faster - how do I bypass "look, ma - no hands" ??

2008-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Mikus, just to clarify: you are playing with *alpha*, *proof-of-concept* software that Scott is spinning just to test the waters. I am not sure if you are kidding, but your email sounds pretty short-tempered. Open mind, a sense of humour and a "where can I help" attitude welcome when looking at

Re: [sugar] video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the video *application* typically does not know if the user is There are signals that the wm will send to indicate "you're the foreground window", "you've lost your focus", "you're minimized". There is probably a bug

Re: [sugar] video bleeds through somewhat between sessions

2008-08-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> There is probably a bug in the mplayer wrapper (are you using an >> mplayer 'activity' wrapper?) in that it's not getting

Re: [sugar] Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing Preparing for a "smoketest" event I'm organising tomorrow, I am doing a copy-nand install on 5 XOs I have here, and want to have a consistent set of activities. What activitie

Re: [sugar] Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a better / handier way? On first boot, it found my local School Server and up a big "Software Update" window popped, and said "do you want to install all these activities". Col

Re: [sugar] Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Kevin Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > want to update them. I tell it to install/upgrade them all. It says > "Downloading" but the progress bar never progresses, and it appears to > be doing a whole lot of nothing. FWIW, it worked for me. One of the activity dow

Re: [sugar] commanding what the screen should show

2008-08-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that the XO had "stacked" my last keypress (the F3), > and upon resuming Sugar had "fed in" that stack. I've seen this too, and been annoyed by it. My theory is different - X is catching the /release/ even

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] screenshots hurt

2008-09-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I think I get it. > > Isn't the Icon in the journal always the same for any given activity? They are talking about _documents_, not _programs_. The word "activity" is just wrong here to designate either :-p The screenshots

Re: [sugar] Fragmenting or providing a foothold?

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:13 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With this in mind, the goal of creating new mailing lists is not to > fragment the existing community. It is to create footholds for other > communities to develop around the central learning platform. It's about economies

Re: [sugar] Restoring journal entries (was Re: [Server-devel] Backup And Restore Feature Documentation)

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these questions depend on the actual code that performs the restore. > I'm going to comment on what happens when the user clicks on an entry > from Browse (the only restore mechanism that is available today). Tomeu and I ha

Re: [sugar] Narrative.

2008-10-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to > manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for > learning." [1] I am catching up with this. What Bryan writes is correct,

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Offline moodle needs a lot of work to get working properly and really > doesn't receive the attention it deserves. Not yet :-) but attention to Offline Moodle will increase... > Offline moodle currently does not work very at

Re: [sugar] Cross posting

2008-10-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) install procmail > 2) man procmailex > 3) search for 'duplicates' > 4) ...? And/or use gmail which will show each msg once, and if you're using labels it'll show one msg with various labels (as appropriate for each m

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
Ok - I had missed the whole thread in my earlier reply. On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *But*, we should be able to: >* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to > school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a "decent selection" o

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:03 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we're on the same page here. For 9.1, what's the *least* work > we can do to get *something* done on the printing front? Fantastic! > Once the > basics are out there, hopefully we'll have community motivated

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please stop imagining that lowest-spec, cheapest hardware and crippleware is > the answer - or that 3'rd World countries will never progress towards a > reasonable standard. That attitude is patronizing and demeaning. And wrong. He

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 n

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Bill Bogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin will probably hate me for this... Oh, I won't! However implements this gets to say how it's done; good to hear you have an opinion that you're willing to back with code :-) > If you can assume the existence of an X

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 – 21 is being postponed > until January, 2009. The Fedora FUDCON conference is in Boston on January 9 Oops. I kind of saw that coming when fudcon was postponed. I'll sort

[sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
Must preface this noting that I am relatively naive about Sugar internals. "Your thoughts are stupid and your face ugly" may be the most appropiate answer to this - after all, I know about the server, not the laptop :-) ... Thinking about how to extend the appeal (and long term viability!) of su

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds good, it's on the list of the things I'd really like to do but > I'm too swamped to put focus on :( Ah, great to hear I'm not so lost in the woods! >> - journal behaviour - though it might be relatively simp

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My point is simply that we could create a very thin dummy layer that ... > Ah. Implementations details aside, I start to see the di

Re: [sugar] Major differences between releases

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've started http://wiki.laptop.org/go/API_changes to track Sugar and > system API changes between releases. It's not very comprehensive so > far - contributions welcome. Little nag: how about qualifiying that it's about t

Re: [sugar] Reducing activity sharing boilderplate code

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alternatively I can subclass Activity to SharableActivity or something > like that, and add the telepathy/tubes helper code in there. Subclassing is tight coupling in a place where you definitely want loose coupling. I wou

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

2008-11-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Brendan R. Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to propose a discussion on making the collaboration a bit more >> standards compliant. The idea would be to get sugar to function

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Switching to XMLRPC?! This seems like some massive sidestep which would >> break the existing stuff as well as preventing any code sharing between >> Telepathy apps on Sugar and Telepathy apps on any other Linux platforms.

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... lots of interesting things... I'm very happy that the Sugar folks are in town -- under whatever alibi -- and I'm keen on meeting, having a beer together and perhaps talking a few technical things too ;-) After all, we

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope for a chance to see a server in action, and it would be tops if I > could see a server being set up from scratch. That might even justify I > take a box with me... > In a Montessori way, I learn best when thing

Re: [sugar] Presence Service

2008-11-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:26, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From a collaboration POV, my top priority is to sit down with >> Guillaume while he's here and unde

Re: [sugar] notes on 8.2.0, specifically 767 (was 8.2.1)

2008-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * 767 can't connect to ejabberd on XS 0.4 because they use incompatible > > versions of GNU TLS. H. All the XO 8.2 testing has been done againstXS 0.4 so categorically we can assert: vanilla 767 interoperates with

Re: [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
ng a bunch of files in /home is not leading edge enough to justify this, IMHO. cheers, martin langhoff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http:

Re: [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fedora does not have a standard solution either, so I'm not sure > where you're going with this. We have to invent something. RPM is > not obviously the right solution. So Fedora doesn't use rpm files for localization

Re: [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:34 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please re-read Sayamindu's original message. Thanks. I don't find anything too special there. Perhaps I wasn't clear earlier. What I meant to say is that all the good things we get from a bespoke packaging format, we c

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's a different model. We want the openID _provider_ to be either on the >> laptop itself or on the school server. Since the _server_ has a changing >> FQDN, this becomes harder. The solution would be to propose a chan

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Thanks for your opening email - one quick comment... On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's one example. I would also like any Web server to be able to extract > the XO identity and use it in CGI (e.g. PHP) for processing. the plan for that is that 1 - the

Re: [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I meant to say is that all the good things we get from a bespoke > packaging format, we can get from rpm with a few conventions as to the > directories where things land. A couple of additional notes

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's reasonably likely that the XS will be an OpenID IDP (noting all >> the serious caveats around OpenID that make it a phishing-magnet), but >> _first_ the laptop needs to identify itself to the xS. > > Ok yes I did mis

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Luke Faraone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 17:42, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> If we could switch to https easily, we could skip all this song and >> dance and just use client certs.

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we please not duke out the issues with OpenID on this particular list? +1. Two quick notes to Sebastian - Ben's criteria on security and the internet is surprisingly important as he's one of the key devs behind the apache