[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Karma 0.1

2009-09-15 Thread Bryan Berry
We are proud to release Karma version 0.1 today. Please download the code and try it out for yourself. You can also test out the demo here. You need Firefox 3.5 to run the demo and to tweak your display to properly fit the XO's dimensions http://bit.ly/4upQ0 Source Code:

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release falabracman-1

2009-09-15 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4215 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29249 Release notes: First .xo release, with only spanish and portuguese words. More languages coming soon. Reviewer comments: This

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
FWIW, as a (upstream) Sugar developer what I would like to see is: == Further separation between upstream and downstreams == Without artificially privileging nor discriminating any downstream. So a big +1 to giving a stronger identity to the SoaS project and to creating a separate mailing list.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Karma 0.1

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:42, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: We are proud to release Karma version 0.1 today. Please download the code and try it out for yourself. You can also test out the demo here. You need Firefox 3.5 to run the demo and to tweak your display to properly fit the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Karma 0.1

2009-09-15 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:26 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:42, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: We are proud to release Karma version 0.1 today. Please download the code and try it out for yourself. You can also test out the demo here. You need Firefox 3.5 to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Karma 0.1

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:30, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:26 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:42, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: We are proud to release Karma version 0.1 today. Please download the code and try it out for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Karma 0.1

2009-09-15 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:50 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Have you seen this already? http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2009/09/install-firefox-35-on-olpc-xo.html Regards, Tomeu no i haven't. tks that is quite helpful -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: FWIW, as a (upstream) Sugar developer what I would like to see is: == Further separation between upstream and downstreams == Without artificially privileging nor discriminating any downstream. So a big +1 to giving a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:10, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: FWIW, as a (upstream) Sugar developer what I would like to see is: == Further separation between upstream and downstreams == Without artificially

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] Trac maintenance

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:39, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: == Hostname change == Our trac instance is now reachable as bugs.sugarlabs.org.  The old hostname dev.sugarlabs.org is not going away anytime soon, but please update your links for consistency. == Plugin updates ==

[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Road to Sucrose 0.86 - status report (2)

2009-09-15 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, we are making good progress towards our release. Here are some status updates: b) Release notes: - I have started the work here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes - Fructose activity authors have been invited to use the template [1] and add their individual notes [2]. [1]

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Road to Sucrose 0.86 - status report (2)

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 13:43, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Check out the constant bug workflow of Gary for example. He does not only file bugs, he follows up on questions from the developers and he helps triaging. A good start is to follow up on the bugs you filed, see if it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Road to Sucrose 0.86 - status report (2)

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 13:43, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Aleksey reports: - Latest packages for Ubuntu karmic can be tried out at: https://launchpad.net/~alsroot/+archive/sugar-0.86, instructions are at:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trac maintenance

2009-09-15 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 01:39 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: == Performance == In an attempt to solve the longstanding performance issue with our trac instance, I've rebuilt and installed the latest versions of all the plugins we were using. It didn't help much: ber...@solarsail:~$

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-15 Thread Philippe Clérié
So you probably disagreed with my statement that SoaS is not about installing user files to a hard drive. Or do you mean having the Base OS on the drive, but the user files/activities directory on a stick? My use case does not require the user's environment to be portable. At least for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/9/15 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net: So you probably disagreed with my statement that SoaS is not about installing user files to a hard drive.  Or do you mean having the Base OS on the drive, but the user files/activities directory on a stick? My use case does not require the user's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window properties?

2009-09-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 14.09.2009, at 16:05, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 14.09.2009, at 09:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: When I run Etoys in a recent jhbuild, the shell does not recognize the Etoys window. It displays a gray circle in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Window properties?

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bert, On 15 Sep 2009, at 22:54, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 14.09.2009, at 16:05, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 14.09.2009, at 09:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:52, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: When I run Etoys in a recent jhbuild, the shell does not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-15 Thread Sean DALY
Sebastian - I cannot speak as a SLOB (only a candidate ;-) but I sense that this an important question for everyone to deal with. As you know I believe Sugar on a Stick to be a pillar of our marketing/PR effort, reaching out to teachers (probably geeky teachers first) on a very wide scale.

[Sugar-devel] Searching for datastore entries by title

2009-09-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I want to find a datastore entry with a specific title and mime_type. But it returns *all* entries with that mimetype instead. Here's the log: 1253058031.600170 DEBUG root: datastore.find dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'mime_type'): dbus.String(u'application/ x-squeak-project'),

Re: [Sugar-devel] Searching for datastore entries by title

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bert, On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote: I want to find a datastore entry with a specific title and mime_type. But it returns *all* entries with that mimetype instead. Here's the log: 1253058031.600170 DEBUG root: datastore.find

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas on legacy PC's

2009-09-15 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: I've done considerable testing of SoaS Strawberry on legacy PC's: 1 Pentium II laptop, and 3 Pentium III desktops. First of all, Caroline was correct about CD and floppy boot assists; I was wrong. It takes *at most* a

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Turtle Art-67

2009-09-15 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027 Sugar Platform: from 0.82 to 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29250 Release notes: * added mime-type icon * changed keyboard shortcuts to use Ctrl instead of Alt as per guidelines * wait time in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Karma 0.1

2009-09-15 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:50 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2009/09/install-firefox-35-on-olpc-xo.html Regards, Tomeu done! Here is the first Karma lesson packed into an xo bundle: http://karma.sugarlabs.org/Karma-1.xo It is 17 MB because it includes