Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Philippe Clérié
I haven't seen decent educational software for any platform. That includes Sugar and Mac OS. Probably this means that the concept itself is defective. I am sorely tempted to agree with that. We really should rethink the idea of what « educational software » is and what it is supposed to

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

2008-10-10 Thread Philippe Clérié
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 -- The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. Anonymous On Friday 10 October 2008 09:55:04 Morgan Collett wrote: The latest Sugar

[sugar] Cross posting

2008-10-09 Thread Philippe Clérié
I notice there's considerable cross posting occuring to the sugar and devel lists. Perhaps they should be merged? Philippe -- The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. Anonymous ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] Status of tamtam

2008-10-06 Thread Philippe Clérié
Thanks for the info. I am sure I am up to the challenge of packaging it though. But, there is always a first time. :-) Philippe -- The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. Anonymous On Monday 06 October 2008 03:32:52 Simon Schampijer wrote: Philippe Clérié wrote: I am

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Philippe Clérié
, make_index.py reads this line from the info file when generating its index. -walter On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Philippe Clérié [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a content bundle with a single pdf following the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_bundles. I

Re: [sugar] content bundle development

2008-10-05 Thread Philippe Clérié
Given the annoying behaviour of the bundle that seems like a good idea. But I did like the idea of integrating the pdf with the browser library stuff. The idea was to distribute school manuals in pdf, each as a xol bundle and have the children download that. Before trying the procedure, I