On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Edward Cherlin writes:
>
>> You want 'setxkbmap fr'.
>
> It works! Great, thanks.
>
> Is there something similar to .xsession where I could put this
> instruction, so that I don't need to run the script from within
> the Terminal each time?
Ther
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:54 AM, James Simmons
wrote:
> Sascha,
>
> If the Activity creates a Zip file then the Journal automatically
> resumes it in that Activity. Making Activities use a special MIME type
> when creating a Journal entry doesn't give me anything I don't have already.
>
> Where w
Sascha,
If the Activity creates a Zip file then the Journal automatically
resumes it in that Activity. Making Activities use a special MIME type
when creating a Journal entry doesn't give me anything I don't have already.
Where we have problems is in downloading Zip files from Gutenberg and
o
>Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so longme too.
here is an useful link about DOM Storage
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:Storage
>Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox
anyway, I'm looking how to get running GG with Browse
2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu
>
Edward Cherlin writes:
> You want 'setxkbmap fr'.
It works! Great, thanks.
Is there something similar to .xsession where I could put this
instruction, so that I don't need to run the script from within
the Terminal each time?
--
Bastien
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$ setxkbmap fr
Ed, you forwarded me this workaround weeks ago and I just wanted to
tell you how useful it's been, I use it every time I boot SoaS on my
Azerty netbooks
thanks
Sean
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Bastien wrote:
>> I di
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Sascha Silbe
wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:35:20AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
>> However, I had to invoke 'force checkout' several times, because of
>> missing .git directories.
>
> Interesting. Where exactly? TurtleArt or something else?
Four or five t
Google announced Google Wave today: http://wave.google.com/
The collaboration framework is really interesting:
http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform
It would be very interesting to see how this might benefit Sugar; it
seems like the school server might run a local wave-pro
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:34:03PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
5). When several Activities support the same MIME type (Zip files are
BOUND to be popular) then there needs to be a way of specifying that a
particular Journal entry should be resumed by a particular Activity by
default.
Actually
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:15:22PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 15:42, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:23:20PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>> >2009/5/28 Jonas Smedegaard
>> >> Please subscribe to the
If you can manage to do this, that'd be great.
-walter
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Luke Faraone wrote:
> 2009/5/26 Walter Bender
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:38, Sean DALY wrote:
>> >>> What we call beta - can't be announc
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:35:20AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
However, I had to invoke 'force checkout' several times, because of
missing .git directories.
Interesting. Where exactly? TurtleArt or something else?
setxkbmap us
You mean you can run this command inside Terminal inside sugar-em
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:25:26PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
./sugar-jhbuild depscheck doesn't advertize the need for
python-distutils-extra. Recent bug reports about this:
[...]
I got knocked out by a major infection imported from SugarCamp/Paris.
About the same time (starting just before Sugar
2009/5/26 Walter Bender
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso
> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:38, Sean DALY wrote:
> >>> What we call beta - can't be announced as "is working out of the box".
> >> I completely agree... nor can what we call v1 be announced as working
> >> out
2009/5/28 Tomeu Vizoso
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 21:47, Sayamindu Dasgupta
> wrote:
> > [Jumping into the discussion midway]:
> >
> > From an l10n point of view, I would highly recommend adopting (and
> > perhaps extending) the GNOME documentation framework. It is docbook
> > based, which is a f
2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu
> > You mean that GG tries to write in /usr if it has been installed in
> > /usr? That sounds wrong and may be configurable or fixable.
> I think /usr, I didn't check. I will today.
>
> Yes, it certainly is fixable, but I'm not sure it is also
> configurable. I'd hate to
2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what
>> you are trying to accomplish?
>>
> I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot. the use case is
> here:
> http://wiki.suga
So its decided that I will be working on Groups, as was suggested by tomeu
earlier. I will be needing a Joining letter from Sugar. I mailed the blank
format in a previous mail. It will be great if its print out is taken,
filled and then a scanned copy mailed to me. Sugar can also provide its own
Jo
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Bastien wrote:
> I did a fresh install of sugar-jhbuild.
Likewise.
> ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck doesn't advertize the need for
> python-distutils-extra. Recent bug reports about this:
>
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/902
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/898
Hi,
I was wondering about the best moodle user experience. The three procedures
I've sketched out are:
1) Follow the roots of the advanced assignment upload module, and let
printing be added by the teacher as an activity for a specific period.
Or
2) Make printing a default resource for every cour
I, too, encounter difficulty finding elements in the Journal but
haven't found time yet to contribute to a feature discussion.
just 2 cents about hierarchical representation: it certainly has uses.
The coolest one I ever saw was 8 years ago by a company (trying to
remember the name) that provides
Slightly off-topic, a new Gears has been released
http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/gears-05210-released.html
The Blob builder API is very interesting, as it possibly allows
altering arbitrary files from JavaScript.
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There are 3 different ideas when we are talking about Journal vs
Directories:
1. Whether we are limiting the user to use exactly one filtering
category for his/her documents (and lets call them Files and the filter
the Files' Directory) or we allow multiple filters (and call them Tags).
2. Wheth
Hi,
Caroline, that is exactly how iTalc works. The teacher can pass on the
session to one or groups of students, so it becomes a great way for everyone
to join in. If you are going to be at LinuxTag, I can do a quick demo so u
can see how this would work in a real teaching environment. I have als
I did a fresh install of sugar-jhbuild.
./sugar-jhbuild depscheck doesn't advertize the need for
python-distutils-extra. Recent bug reports about this:
http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/902
http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/898
Another problem: sugar-jhbuild still doesn't recognize my keyboard
to
My two cents:
When I started programming computers 30+ years ago data was stored in
punch cards and reels of tape. Disk storage was available, but too
expensive to use to store large amounts of data. (I didn't hear the
word "gigabyte" until the late 80's). In classes at college I studied
da
2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
> Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long. I was
> under the impression it was at the same stage as Webkit. Thanks for
> the link.
>
> Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox.
>
> But many websites already use Gears specifically, and
Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long. I was
under the impression it was at the same stage as Webkit. Thanks for
the link.
Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox.
But many websites already use Gears specifically, and I need them to
work for Webified.
2009
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:48 PM, wrote:
> if you're root, use the force:
you are truly evil :-)
m
--
martin.langh...@gmail.com
mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect
- ask interesting questions
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
- http://wiki.laptop.org/
2009/5/28 Martin Langhoff :
> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
>> Not really. HTML 5 only brings an SQLite database accessible from JavaScript.
>>
>> Gears has other features that aren't present in Gecko proper (yet):
>> - LocalServer - a way to transparently persist resources locally
>
> I thought HTML
AFAIK it's not in the spec (yet), but there was some talk about it. In
any case, it's certainly not in browsers.
2009/5/28 Martin Langhoff :
> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
>> Not really. HTML 5 only brings an SQLite database accessible from JavaScript.
>>
>> Gears has other features that aren't pre
2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
> Not really. HTML 5 only brings an SQLite database accessible from JavaScript.
>
> Gears has other features that aren't present in Gecko proper (yet):
> - LocalServer - a way to transparently persist resources locally
I thought HTML5 had some "offline resource" facilit
martin wrote:
> I'm working on olpc-update-query, a script that runs without a tty
> (from NM hooks and cron) and needs to query Sugar configuration stuff.
> To make things more complicated, it runs as root :-/
>
> It's a good thing that we have sugar-control-panel, but at least on
> 0.82 it
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 16:49, Luke Faraone wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is turning into a larger project than I'd originally imagined.
> >
> > Since the current process of using LVM loop-mounted partitions prevents
> us
> > from mounting
Not really. HTML 5 only brings an SQLite database accessible from JavaScript.
Gears has other features that aren't present in Gecko proper (yet):
- LocalServer - a way to transparently persist resources locally
- WorkerPool - threads. The WHATWG HTML 5 spec does include provisions
for WebWorkers,
2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
> For both Webified and Karma, Gears support in Browse is necessary (or
> at least preferred), but AFAIK there is currently no strategy to get
> it running.
If I understand correctly, the 'HTML5' extensions push means that the
core gecko gets facilities that look almost
I'm working on olpc-update-query, a script that runs without a tty
(from NM hooks and cron) and needs to query Sugar configuration stuff.
To make things more complicated, it runs as root :-/
It's a good thing that we have sugar-control-panel, but at least on
0.82 it doesn't work unless you're in T
2009/5/28 Tomeu Vizoso :
> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
>> For both Webified and Karma, Gears support in Browse is necessary (or
>> at least preferred), but AFAIK there is currently no strategy to get
>> it running.
>
> I have managed to get it running in Browse some months ago by
> expanding the .x
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Subject: Re: [IAEP] IRC application Autojoin feature does not work on
Soas2-20090524 (Soas-1)]
From: *Thomas C Gilliard*
Date: Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM
To: feedb...@sugarlabs.org
Caroline;
I tried a burned CD of .iso.
There is no memory in c
2009/5/28 roshan karki :
> The problem with gsynaptics is I don't have any section with "synaptic" as
> identifier in xorg.conf
Yes, the XO ships with the standard PS/2 driver, so the touchpad runs
in the PS/2 "emulation" mode. This works but means you don't have
control over the more advanced fea
Forwarding to sugar-devel.
NOTE: Mail sent to feedb...@sugarlabs.org is forwarded to
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Subject: [IAEP] IRC
Hi Tom,
Your work on the VMware page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware, has been
helpful. Others may want to collaborate with you there.
Please also look at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad and its subpages.
You could help in verifying and sorting out problems reported in our bug
tracki
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> James Zaki writes:
>
>> Understanding hierarchical file structures use the concepts of containers
>> and recursion with no limits (except for total capacity). It is not
>> naturally intuitive, like a tree where branches get smaller from the
+1 on the importance of iTalc like functionality. If that is something
Windows/Apple can do and Sugar can't its going to hurt adoption.
It would be cool if students could also become the presenters so the teacher
could ask a student in the room to explain how a problem was done and pass
control
Very interesting David, thanks
I can't wait to see that at LinuxTag.
Sean
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:17 AM, David Van Assche wrote:
> Hi,
>At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest to
> me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be presented
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 13:32, Bastien wrote:
> http://2009.linuxdays.ch/fr/content/programme
>
> Clearly business-oriented, but they have a thematic on Education
> where Sugar could sneak in.
>
> PS: Btw, I have the feeling this list is not the right place for such
> announcements. Do we have so
http://2009.linuxdays.ch/fr/content/programme
Clearly business-oriented, but they have a thematic on Education
where Sugar could sneak in.
PS: Btw, I have the feeling this list is not the right place for such
announcements. Do we have something like a marketing list? Or shall I
sent this to Se
I am very interested in the digital whiteboard at LinuxTag. I will be going,
and would love to be a part of it if you need some help.
Once I get my system(s) back up (tagging fedora bugs along the way). I will
try take a look into the Classroom presenter activity.
2009/5/28 David Van Assche
>
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:18:35AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:58:17AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>>Tomeu Vizoso writes:
>
I think it's very importan
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:29:23PM +0200, James Zaki wrote:
>Not sure where my complete email went... something to do with awaiting
>approval I think.
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Please subscribe to the lists that you post to, to bypass our spam
s
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:07, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 2009/5/28 NoiseEHC :
>>
>> I think it's very important if we want to keep pushing Sugar that we
>> distinguish between design decisions and bugs and unimplemented
>> features. If we bring down good design ideas not by themselves but
>> because
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:41, James Zaki wrote:
> I did not know there was much debate about this, because for me the journal
> in its current state made sense for the target audience of sugar.
>
> Understanding hierarchical file structures use the concepts of containers
> and recursion with no l
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:17, David Van Assche wrote:
> Hi,
> At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest to
> me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be presented
> there. From one side, I will be representing sugar packaging on the openSUSE
>
2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu :
> For both Webified and Karma, Gears support in Browse is necessary (or
> at least preferred), but AFAIK there is currently no strategy to get
> it running.
I have managed to get it running in Browse some months ago by
expanding the .xpi and installing the files in a co
Not sure where my complete email went... something to do with awaiting
approval I think.
But just for clarity to all, I said the arrowed ">" text.
2009/5/28 Albert Cahalan
> James Zaki writes:
>
> > Understanding hierarchical file structures use the concepts of containers
> > and recursion wit
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 00:15, Benjamin M. Schwartz
wrote:
> Dailymotion, after creating an Ogg Theora video site optimized for
> Sugar+XO at http://olpc.dailymotion.com/, have gone one step further to
> expand Ogg Theora support across their entire video sharing system. You
> can try it out at h
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 14:18, kartik rustagi wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> Sorry for replying after this long a duration. Exams followed by physical
> damage to my machine consumed a lot of time.
> I will like to start my internship under Sugarlabs ASAP. Can any one please
> provide me a link to a
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:58:17AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>Tomeu Vizoso writes:
>>> I think it's very important if we want to keep pushing Sugar that we
>>> distinguish between design decisions and bugs and unimplemented
>>> featur
2009/5/28 NoiseEHC :
>
> I think it's very important if we want to keep pushing Sugar that we
> distinguish between design decisions and bugs and unimplemented
> features. If we bring down good design ideas not by themselves but
> because of its implementation status, we risk ending up with nothing
I think it's very important if we want to keep pushing Sugar that we
distinguish between design decisions and bugs and unimplemented
features. If we bring down good design ideas not by themselves but
because of its implementation status, we risk ending up with nothing
that brings new value compa
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:58:17AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>Tomeu Vizoso writes:
>> I think it's very important if we want to keep pushing Sugar that we
>> distinguish between design decisions and bugs and unimplemented
>> features. If we b
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 21:47, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> [Jumping into the discussion midway]:
>
> From an l10n point of view, I would highly recommend adopting (and
> perhaps extending) the GNOME documentation framework. It is docbook
> based, which is a format pretty easy to pick up (and I bel
James Zaki writes:
> Understanding hierarchical file structures use the concepts of containers
> and recursion with no limits (except for total capacity). It is not
> naturally intuitive, like a tree where branches get smaller from the trunk
> with fruit/leaves only at the end nodes.
>
> Empirical
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 16:49, Luke Faraone wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is turning into a larger project than I'd originally imagined.
>
> Since the current process of using LVM loop-mounted partitions prevents us
> from mounting the SoaS filesystem outside of SoaS itself, we had to come up
> with a
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:07, Bastien wrote:
> Tomeu Vizoso writes:
>
>> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 13:31, Bastien wrote:
>>> +1 on the overall.
>>>
>>> Building Sugar from source should be as easy as:
>>>
>>> ,
>>> | ~$ git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-core/mainline.git
>>> | ~$ ./configure
>>>
Oh, and I don't know if it's still around, but jhbuild was pretty useful if
you don't have an xo to work on.
Alex
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Alex Levenson wrote:
> A little background information. In the process of creating x2o, I created
> Physics! sort of as a demo. So a lot of things are
A little background information. In the process of creating x2o, I created
Physics! sort of as a demo. So a lot of things are further along in x2o
because Physics! was sort of my sandbox for creating x2o. So if you want to
polish off Physics!, please take a look at what I did with x2o, which
integr
Hi,
I would like to get started adding the play/pause button and the pin button.
Probably the next step is to integrate the activity with the journal. The
only problem is that I haven't been able to get my development environment
working. It seems there are some open issues with ubuntu. My plan ri
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> CCing the lists again, which seem to keep following off the thread
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:38, Sean DALY wrote:
What we call beta - can't be announced as "is working
CCing the lists again, which seem to keep following off the thread
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:38, Sean DALY wrote:
>>> What we call beta - can't be announced as "is working out of the box".
>> I completely agree... nor can what we call
...
>
> > Can you tell me who to contact to have this activity adopted?
>
> Congratulations, you got lucky with your first email ;-)
>
> Kind Regards,
> --Gary
>
> > Regards
> > Pierre Métras
I'm quite happy that my pet activity has found a new home. It was feeling
alone on the old wiki.laptop.or
Tomeu Vizoso writes:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:54, wrote:
>> I am happy to expand this to the list. I have raised the journal once
>> or twice before but mainly kept quiet not wanting to be trollish.
...
>> The journal and sharing are probably the two central things that
>> distinguish sugar
Tomeu Vizoso writes:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 20:20, Lucian Branescu
> wrote:
>> I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong.
>>
>> But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else.
>> A lot of the work I see done is towards bringing back some of the
>> properties that regul
I did not know there was much debate about this, because for me the journal
in its current state made sense for the target audience of sugar.
Understanding hierarchical file structures use the concepts of containers
and recursion with no limits (except for total capacity). It is not
naturally intu
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