Re: [Sugar-devel] versus, not

2009-05-08 Thread Bill Kerr
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Bill Kerr wrote: > > however, I do think the roll back of enlightenment principles is not well > > understood (http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/nonUniversals) and > that a > > better understanding might

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release

2009-05-08 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Friday 08 May 2009 03:24:30 pm Mohit Taneja wrote: > Hi, > > The Beta version of the FoodForce2 game has been developed for the XO. The > features that have been incorporated are : Congratulations! Looks great! I had a chance to see a presentation on this game last October in El Salvador and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [PATCH] add clock frame device

2009-05-08 Thread Eben Eliason
A few thoughts. 1. I think that we need to show the leading 0 when the hour is a one digit number, eg. 08:07. Otherwise everything in the Frame is going to shift depending on the time. 2. I find the radio buttons a little odd. I wonder if we could have a single menu item that either a) reads "Use

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [PATCH] add clock frame device

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Dengler
[ccing sugar-devel as well] On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:18:02AM +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > > The below patch adds a clock device to the frame: > Thanks Martin, I have wanted a clock for a long time. > > Can we please have an idiots guide for installation? Unfortunately, you can't yet

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:21:43PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> > I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of >> > dictionaries chosen.  If you are learning two langs

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dictionary everywhere ?

2009-05-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:21:43PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of > > dictionaries chosen.  If you are learning two langs, you should see > > relevant words in both languages whe

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] add clock frame device

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Dengler
The below patch adds a clock device to the frame: http://www.martindengler.com/tmp/screenshot_clock_device_frame-06_a6_a689bf1e-3f34-4da3-afed-aa910ab4f677.png http://www.martindengler.com/tmp/screenshot_clock_device_frame-07_84_841da15d-9bd7-4fe4-aada-8e8ab723f806.png http://www.martindengler.com

[Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release

2009-05-08 Thread Mohit Taneja
Hi, The Beta version of the FoodForce2 game has been developed for the XO. The features that have been incorporated are : - The storyboard has been implemented in the game, which includes different scenarios, each of them is related to a particular key learning area or a social issue.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:03:33AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, I was interested in your comment about wrapping Object Chooser > for backward compatibility. Currently both of my Activities use Object > Chooser, but don't make any attempt to limit what Journal entries can be > chosen

Re: [Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread Eben Eliason
PS. The upside-down Paint icon in that mockup is meant to indicate that there is some other activity which handles the SVG type, and this is a stand-in icon for that. Don't take it in a literal sense. Eben On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Eben Eliason wrote: > Actually, that's not entirely tru

Re: [Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 08.05.2009, at 17:41, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 17:35, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: >> On 08.05.2009, at 17:03, James Simmons wrote: >> >>> Aleksey, >>> >>> I was interested in your comment about wrapping Object Chooser for >>> backward compatibility. Currently both of my A

Re: [Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread Eben Eliason
Actually, that's not entirely true. This was considered in the design for the object chooser, as can be seen here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Designs/Object_Chooser#03 In addition to specifying the generic type, the intent was to also allow a boolean which determined whether or not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 17:35, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 08.05.2009, at 17:03, James Simmons wrote: > >> Aleksey, >> >> I was interested in your comment about wrapping Object Chooser for >> backward compatibility.  Currently both of my Activities use Object >> Chooser, but don't make any attempt

Re: [Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 08.05.2009, at 17:03, James Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, > > I was interested in your comment about wrapping Object Chooser for > backward compatibility. Currently both of my Activities use Object > Chooser, but don't make any attempt to limit what Journal entries > can be chosen. I would

[Sugar-devel] Limiting Object Chooser to specified MIME types

2009-05-08 Thread James Simmons
Aleksey, I was interested in your comment about wrapping Object Chooser for backward compatibility. Currently both of my Activities use Object Chooser, but don't make any attempt to limit what Journal entries can be chosen. I would like to limit Read Etexts to the MIME types text/plain and appl

Re: [Sugar-devel] versus, not

2009-05-08 Thread Walter Bender
One of the real pleasures of this adventure we are on is that there has been thoughtful criticism of ideas. I cannot get away with vague or sloppy thinking. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: > I'm not sure what is meant by a "big tent" > > Why do some people want a big tent for lea

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.84-on-a-XO

2009-05-08 Thread pgf
tomeu wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 14:03, Martin Dengler > wrote: > > > >> I was very heartened to hear on IRC two days ago that OLPC have a > >> kernel hacker (dsaxena) starting in June (to work on Gen 1.5), and > >> that one of the first thing on the todo list was to get the OLPC > >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.84-on-a-XO

2009-05-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 14:03, Martin Dengler wrote: > >> I was very heartened to hear on IRC two days ago that OLPC have a >> kernel hacker (dsaxena) starting in June (to work on Gen 1.5), and >> that one of the first thing on the todo list was to get the OLPC >> patches applying to the linus kern

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.84-on-a-XO

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Dengler
Adam, I will help, and if we're lucky some of the sugarlabs experts will dive in as well. It'd be great to get more testers. One thing we need to work on fine-tuning is how cjb's rawhide-xo and SoaS-on-XO relate. Both groups are in very close contact but I think things are still evolving (of co

Re: [Sugar-devel] versus, not

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: > I'm not sure what is meant by a "big tent" Personally, I am building tools so... ... > when I look at minsky's theory of mind I see that he supports multiple > models of thinking but also argues against models of thinking that he thinks > are in

Re: [Sugar-devel] versus, not

2009-05-08 Thread Bill Kerr
I'm not sure what is meant by a "big tent" Why do some people want a big tent for learning theory but not a big tent which accepts both FOSS and proprietary software? Phrasing it that way is intended to encourage people to think about what sort of thing is learning and hopefully will not be interp

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] OpenID Authentication and the Browser

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > People interested in $SUBJECT may enjoy > > http://almaer.com/blog/who-do-i-trust-with-my-identity-erm-how-about-me-openid-weaves-into-the-browser > > I haven't quite figured out what they're doing. Makes sense -- it is the step that p