Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade gravity lesson? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Brian Jordan wrote: > Attaching Sugar Devel (people who want to be involved with Physics > development  might be on there). > > > On Mon,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
When I wrote the sugar updater, I included all the code necessary to transfer only the changed portions of a large zip file. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/sugar-update-control/tree/bitfrost/util/urlrange.py contains the interesting bits. The only missing piece was a proper manifest fil

Re: [Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Robinson
>>  Now that WebKit seems >> to be better supported in F11+, I can try to bundle a modified webkit >> .so that reduces memory usage as much as possible. > > That'd be *nice*! There's a new version of webkitgtk in F-11 updates-testing that is the same as the one in rawhide. Early on in the move tow

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've put xcompmgr -a & in my .xsession file and everything works great. I haven't seen any artefacts anywhere in fact. 2009/6/16 Martin Dengler : > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:54:32PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: >> I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). > [...] >> I have however notice

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:54:32PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). [...] > I have however noticed some artefacts on the top of the frame and the > edges of Terminal (the activity where I started xcompmgr). They > disappear after I restart an activit

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). I also see significant perceived performance improvements when sliding the frame and especially when switching windows. I have however noticed some artefacts on the top of the frame and the edges of Terminal (the activity where I started xcompmgr)

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've just tried xcompmgr on my XO with 0.82 (f9). I also see significant perceived performance improvements when sliding the frame and especially when switching windows. I have however noticed some artefacts on the top of the frame and the edges of Terminal (the activity where I started xcompmgr)

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:50:03PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > [test xcompmgr and] report any performance improvements when > switching windows, sliding the frame in and out, and any other > operations that involve redrawing parts of the screen. I see significant performance improvements on my XO

[Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, we are considering using the composite extension in order to improve the perceived graphics performance of Sugar. It would be great if someone could test it by running the following. As root: "yum install xcompmgr" As normal user in the terminal activity: "xcompmgr -a" And report any perfor

[Sugar-devel] [Invitation] Collaboration Tes ting @ Wed Jun 17 3pm – 5pm (sugar-devel@ lists.sugarlabs.org)

2009-06-16 Thread Frederick Grose
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche wrote: > Hi folks, >This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we > are having tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June at 19:00 UTC (That is 4 pm > EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that > will be 9 pm

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Dave Bauer wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:18, Dave Bauer wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Daveb will be doing all the server sid

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:18, Dave Bauer wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche >> wrote: >> >> >> Daveb will be doing all the server side monitoring, such as ejabberd >> load, etc. Last week's lag should no

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Dave, On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:18, Dave Bauer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche > wrote: > > > Daveb will be doing all the server side monitoring, such as ejabberd > load, etc. Last week's lag should now be fixed as he has added the > shared roster, and enabled gadget.

Re: [Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bobby Powers wrote: > While not hand-tuned, I believe on the latest rawhide-xo images (and > Fedora 11) you can download > http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/surf/Surf-106.xo > for a WebKit based browsing experience.  The packages pywebkitgtk and > webkitgtk need to be i

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Van Assche wrote: > > > Daveb will be doing all the server side monitoring, such as ejabberd > load, etc. Last week's lag should now be fixed as he has added the > shared roster, and enabled gadget. > I have not enabled gadget yet, but with 10 - 20 users th

[Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks,    This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June at 19:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) We will have a good 10+ people present, if last w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >On 06/15/09 16:37, Bryan Berry wrote: >> I want to use rsync but I need a mechanism that the users (kids) can >> initiate through a simple GUI, like the current Activity Update >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 06:00 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > In Nepal, we are not updating against activities.sugarlabs.org but > against the local XS. Would it be terribly complicated to change the > code on the XS? No, because there's no code at all: it's just static HTML. You could set olpc-activi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 06:00 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > In Nepal, we are not updating against activities.sugarlabs.org but > against the local XS. Would it be terribly complicated to change the > code on the XS? No, because there's no code at all: it's just static HTML. You could set olpc-activi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 06:00 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > In Nepal, we are not updating against activities.sugarlabs.org but > against the local XS. Would it be terribly complicated to change the > code on the XS? No, because there's no code at all: it's just static HTML. You could set olpc-activi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem using sugar-update-control to update large (100+ MB) activity bundles

2009-06-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 22:15 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > What about something similar to the deltarpm feature in F11 where > there's a delta created between the previous release and it is served > over standard http/ftp/whatever like the full package. In the initial > set of updates released for

[Sugar-devel] Query regarding settings.php in modules(moodle)

2009-06-16 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Martin, Hi, I'm in the process of building a print activity module, and was wondering how settings.php works. As in I looked into assignment/settings.php, and I couldn't quite figure out how you use the set flags and settings in the rest of the files. I don't see a require_once(/mod/assignment/set

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/6/16 NoiseEHC : > I think you do not get what is so "special" with Android. > > 1. They killed the braindamaged X driver model and put the driver where it > belongs, the kernel. Just like Windows NT and OS-X already did. Finally it > is fast and really supports hardware acceleration! Did I men

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-16 Thread NoiseEHC
I think you do not get what is so "special" with Android. 1. They killed the braindamaged X driver model and put the driver where it belongs, the kernel. Just like Windows NT and OS-X already did. Finally it is fast and really supports hardware acceleration! Did I mention that it has redraw pr

Re: [Sugar-devel] FW: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar

2009-06-16 Thread Sean DALY
Sounds great John thanks If the shortened edit is in DV, I can normalize sound level when transcoding. In other words better results will be obtained in compressing from the source, instead of from an already-compressed WMV or MPEG format transcoded from the source. Of course DV is a lossy compres

Re: [Sugar-devel] Webkit in sugar Was Re: Epub and Read

2009-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:13, Kushal Das wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Nice, looking forward for it. I'm curious about the dependencies, >> maybe in 0.86 we should add webkit to Sugar Platform. > If we get pywebkitgtk in sugar then I can convert my blog client fo