Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-21 Thread Walter Bender
Glad to hear you at least have it running. We'll have to investigate the helper-CD situation. regards. -walter On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:01 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Hi All > > I am in Tuvalu and have been trying Blueberry with and without boot helper on > a good PC desktop at our OLPC trial

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-21 Thread David Leeming
Hi All I am in Tuvalu and have been trying Blueberry with and without boot helper on a good PC desktop at our OLPC trial startup workshop. Pleased to say it works without the boot helper CD. The issue is definitely the boot helper. I encourage that a solution is found because the people for w

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various > additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out > what I have a PDF created wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, I did consider mentioning the word tracking feature you put in your example. However, when I tried your example with actual book text rather than letting it speak the source code of the program it seemed to actually skip speaking some of the words. The markup version was more robust. T

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, Thanks for your feedback. I'll check out your new code when I get home. Offhand I can't tell what you changed, but I'll make sure to test everything before I update the chapter. I was hoping that speech.py could be a file that new developers could drop into their Activities without ful

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:53:30PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41:59PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > > > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > > > adding Text to Speech to your Act

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41:59PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > > adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various > > additions and corrections to the

Re: [Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various > additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out > what I have a PDF created wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] SoaS Modifications in Trac

2010-01-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Forwarding to sugar-devel because I think this is more of interest to the whole development team, rather than infrastructure. Regards, Tomeu On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 17:42, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi, > > just wanted to give a quick heads-up on the changes I made to bugs.sl.o > for SoaS. I r

[Sugar-devel] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/A

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Sliderule-8

2010-01-21 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4222 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26565/sliderule-8.xo Release notes: * added command-line launch capability * fixed sprite library bug Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Visual Match-20

2010-01-21 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4246 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.86 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26564/visual_match-20.xo Release notes: * added more combinations to the dice game, e.g., 5=4+1, 5=3+2 * fixed bug in sprite library * using refa

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Control Panel Font configuration

2010-01-21 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2010/1/19 Yevlempy(Harsh Verma) : >> Hi >> >> I am working on building the font configuring control panel, it will be a >> pygtk based control panel extension for >> handling the fonts. I have been working on few mockups for designing the >> f

Re: [Sugar-devel] virtual keyboard

2010-01-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:30, Esteban Arias wrote: > Hi, > > in uruguay, we developed activity EscribirEspecial to children handicapped > (http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4265). > EscribirEspecial has a system scanning buttons to write and the activity > writes on abiword. What