Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/5/28 Felipe López Toledo zer.subz...@gmail.com: Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long me 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] The moodle-Print User Experience

2009-05-29 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Also, I would like to know whether building this as a plugin to assignments module would be better than creating an activity from the scrap. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think they're just a bit slow. They would break existing Gears applications if they relied on the mozilla stuff without at least a wrapper. 2009/5/29 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: 2009/5/28 Felipe López Toledo zer.subz...@gmail.com: Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files (was: Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism)

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:53, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/5/29 Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com: I think they're just a bit slow. They would break existing Gears applications if they relied on the mozilla stuff without at least a wrapper. Maybe modern GG applications have such wrapper? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files (was: Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism)

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 13:50, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: [snip] The journal and browse are able to sniff the types of these formats, so activity authors are encourage to use this scheme and ship a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/5/29 Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com: Not that I know of. I tried running several on Firefox 3.5 beta, none works. I guess someone could create a wrapper when all major browsers (except IE of course) have all/most of the features of Gears. JavaScript ORMs for example, tend to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Collaboration/Google wave

2009-05-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 23:01, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: Google announced Google Wave today: http://wave.google.com/ The collaboration framework is really interesting:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal criticism (or not)

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 18:16, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:23, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what you are trying to accomplish?

Re: [Sugar-devel] activities using zip files

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 00:24, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704page=77) a fat .EFI boot file compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Ubuntu has a useful matrix of compatible Macs at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS worked, though. I just got my laptop back, I should be able to test this as well. 2009/5/29 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: On a related subject, I am also actively

[Sugar-devel] Browse broken on sugar-jhbuild?

2009-05-29 Thread Bastien
I'm having hard times using Browse on ./sugar-jhbuild It reguarily crashes, especially when browsing a mediawiki page. Before I investigate further, is this something that other people have experienced? Thanks, -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics acceleration. Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:47:05PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics acceleration. Yeah, the URL I provided earlier in this thread deals with that issue. Not sure anyone found my URL

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse broken on sugar-jhbuild?

2009-05-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:32:27PM +0200, Bastien wrote: I'm having hard times using Browse on ./sugar-jhbuild It reguarily crashes, especially when browsing a mediawiki page. On what kind of hardware? XO by any chance? Which distro (incl. version)? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:49, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Sounds very good, do we have a timeframe already for testing the first results from this project? Nothing definite as of yet. It's starting to look like it won't be ready for our F11/SoaS v1 release, with an alpha coming

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum repo to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten, and I was wondering (also with regard to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 13:18, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: Please file a ticket for this work so I can track and reference it in the wiki and communications and such. Will do. Technical Question: Will this effect the code that is SoaS2 or is this going to be a new USB

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Updated Packages

2009-05-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, just a quick heads-up: I've built another snapshot yesterday, which brings along updated packages from our SoaS yum repo. * You're now able to install (manually) RPM Fusion packages again - it failed before. * It also includes the updated gstreamer-plugins-espeak package (now on

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum repo to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. As it turned out, the plymouth package has been

[Sugar-devel] Guadec

2009-05-29 Thread David Farning
Is anyone planning on attending Guadec this July? david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
Sebastian, Gary I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for awhile What's the deadline please? thanks Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: Sebastian, Gary I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for awhile Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. --G What's the deadline please? thanks Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin