Re: [Sugar-devel] R&D vs Product Support

2010-06-22 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Mon, 21-06-2010 a las 10:06 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > Sorry, I was asking about splitting the "staff". > > Here I agree with Tomeu. A subtext of my "experimental branches" post > is that we're too small to split people into club

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] API documentation.

2010-06-22 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Tue, 22-06-2010 a las 13:45 -0500, David Farning escribió: > It looks like we are starting to make progress on the API documentation > project. > > As you may be aware, Seeta.in is working on sphynix based api > documentation for the core Sugar modules. Initial work can be seen at > http://se

[Sugar-devel] [Testing] New experimental ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table on the wiki for reporting on Activity Compatibility

2010-06-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Announcing an experimental Table of Activities on the wiki that can be edited to report compatibility with different versions of Soas. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table#Test It is based on 2 versions of an Open Office Spreadsheet : http://people.sugarlabs

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi Sayamindu (and others), > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:46:43PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >> [Apologies for the cross-posting] > >> Thanks to the pointers provided by Peter Robinson, I got the Meego >> FVKBD (Free Virtual Keyb

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi Esteban, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Esteban Arias wrote: > Hi, > FVKBD support spanish keyboard? > Could be added an system scanning buttons to write. for example: > https://desarrollo.ceibal.edu.uy/projects/tecladoenpantalla/files > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Accessibility_vi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar with a virtual (onscreen) keyboard

2010-06-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Gary Martin wrote: > Hi Sayamindu, > > On 17 Jun 2010, at 13:16, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > >> [Apologies for the cross-posting] >> >> Hello, >> Thanks to the pointers provided by Peter Robinson, I got the Meego >> FVKBD (Free Virtual Keyboard)¹ running along with

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I don't want to spoil the party, but what are you going to do if > that works and kids from around the world start bombarding > sugar-devel with their changes? I should think some kind of party would be in order. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
It might also be worth thinking about how this would play out in Squeak/Etoys. See in particular: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Smalltalk_Development_on_XO#Submit_your_changes --scott "attempting to learn from the community" ps. as bert's doing the only multitouch work (that I know of) I've given so

[Sugar-devel] API documentation.

2010-06-22 Thread David Farning
It looks like we are starting to make progress on the API documentation project. As you may be aware, Seeta.in is working on sphynix based api documentation for the core Sugar modules. Initial work can be seen at http://seeta.in/sugar/api/documentation/dest8/ and http://seeta.in/sugar/api/documen

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Hal Murray
> Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed that our > desired next step would be to send our change to sugar-devel@ along with, > well, this story. >-1: Unfortunately, there's no obvious way to do this with Sugar and >Pippy today. I don't want to spoil th

[Sugar-devel] Quickly for Sugar

2010-06-22 Thread Sameer Verma
I was looking at Jono Bacon's article (cc'd) in the latest Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com) and was wondering if anyone has looked into Quickly in the Sugar context. Quickly essentially ties in various tools to allow for an easier workflow for "opportunistic programmers". It pulls in Gla

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:36, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I think all activities should have "Report bug" on the toolbar > somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps > email-to-trac? Would be great if the Log functionality for uploading log files to a server could be fleshed

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:25:06PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed > > > that our desired next st

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Kandid-7

2010-06-22 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4254 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/26953/kandid-7.xo Release notes: Removing Glade from Kandid to make it more compatible with the Sugar Platform. Bug fixing the rendering engine.

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Anish Mangal
>> I can think of no other operating system >> which so directly brought his interest from theory to reality. >> +1: I can think of no other operating system and application which so >> directly exposes us to the possibility and desirability of making small >> changes. I agre

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:36:42PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > > I think all activities should have "Report bug" on the toolbar > > somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps > > email-to-trac? > > Good

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:36:42PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I think all activities should have "Report bug" on the toolbar > somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps > email-to-trac? Good idea, but why make every activity implement this? I think a bikeshed icon

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think all activities should have "Report bug" on the toolbar somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps email-to-trac? On 22 June 2010 14:25, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed > > that our desired next step would be to send our change to sugar-devel@ > > along with, well, thi

Re: [Sugar-devel] R&D vs Product Support

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:06:48AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > we're too small to split people into clubs +1 > cheers, > > > m Martin pgpYgACxKm4wh.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > After playing for some time -- perhaps 10 rounds -- we discovered that > we had lost track of which ball was currently contested. Yes, I discovered that also in my testing of the example. > We sat down to fix the problem. Since no e

[Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Stone
Last Friday, I visited the MIT Science Fiction Society's library to pick up some books. While visiting, I spoke with a friend about our recently discovered mutual interest in Python in education. Upon hearing that he was unfamiliar with our work, I opened my XO, started Pippy, and left him to play

Re: [Sugar-devel] datastore situation (was Re: Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.)

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Stone
Dear Tomeu and other Gentle Readers, Thanks for bringing this thread to my direct attention by CC'ing me. Since, I'm not exactly sure what feedback you'd like from me, I've tried to respond in a way that will lead to a fun and productive discussion on "where do we want to go over the next f