[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2010-07-28

2010-07-27 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. Twitter-style: Hello from Squeakfest in Wilmington, North Carolina. We just had a demonstration of some Etoys projects done by 7th graders; pretty amazing. One student, when asked what she does to keep from getting frustrated said: "Damn computer." But she is an accomplished pr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and Updating Software Process

2010-07-27 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:37 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 06:37:18PM -0300, Daniel Castelo wrote: > > * The activities are updated > > With "Software update" or manually using Browse? > > > * The user delete the journal entry with the activity bundle > > downloaded for this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and Updating Software Process

2010-07-27 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 06:37:18PM -0300, Daniel Castelo wrote: > * The activities are updated With "Software update" or manually using Browse? > * The user delete the journal entry with the activity bundle > downloaded for this updating process. > > The result of this is that the activity is del

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers > > which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict. > > It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but

[Sugar-devel] Evince browser plugin

2010-07-27 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hi Lucian, sorry for the long delay, here is the git repository with the evince browser plugin. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/evince-browser-plugin The changes are on the plugin branch. It builds and seems to work fine for me in Lucid. Unfortunately it's still based on 2.25... I haven't trie

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers > which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict. It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but why is such uniqueness a desiderable feature when developers can--and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > The bundle base name (e.g Record) should be unique by itself, because > you can't have two directories named "Record.activity" in your > activities directory. This is, IMO, a bug. The directory should really be named after the bundle id.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] sugar coating

2010-07-27 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:15 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: >> > Morally, the sugar coating is not the best thing to promote the sugar >> > platform. BUT we can't wait for the supertux developer to sugarize their >> > application and we all nee

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] sugar coating

2010-07-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:15 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: > > Morally, the sugar coating is not the best thing to promote the sugar > > platform. BUT we can't wait for the supertux developer to sugarize their > > application and we all need supertux. So... > > It's definitely a start, and better than

[Sugar-devel] Journal and Updating Software Process

2010-07-27 Thread Daniel Castelo
Maybe this topic was discussed before, teachers in Uruguay have reported as a bug this scenario: * The activities are updated * The user delete the journal entry with the activity bundle downloaded for this updating process. The result of this is that the activity is deleted from sugar T

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:56 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > If it doesn't bother you that vpri is in the bundle name and VPRI > themselves don't have a problem with it, I don't think you should > bother changing it. For example many activities are org.laptop.*, even > though they're now developed u

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] sugar coating

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: This is very good news. I am all for a Sugar wrapper to smooth things out for users. One quick comment however. For something that is meant to be a thin wrapper around other people's work, GPL is a bit of a thorny choice of license. Distribut

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] sugar coating

2010-07-27 Thread Luke Faraone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is probably something that would be of interest to sugar-devel as well. On 07/27/2010 03:11 PM, tom-ipp wrote: > Hi, > I wrote a small script in python which lets me "sugarcoat" linux > application for sugar. > In fact, you call the script with t

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

2010-07-27 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Okay, we just discovered that it's apparently just my pendrive (8GB Cruzer) that's not showing up on the details view's copy-button palette. One way or another I think it would make sense to also offer such a copy option on the Journal list view itself as else copying multiple files from the Journ

[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

2010-07-27 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi, Bernie just brought my XO-1 back from the dark ages (I was using 802) by passing me a pen-drive with build 300py (F11 + Sugar 0.88 if I'm not mistaken). Now playing around with it I realized that there was no menu option to copy something from the Journal onto a pendrive. Neither the popup me

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: #1842 UNSP: Journal does not provide any error message on write errors

2010-07-27 Thread Anish Mangal
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:25:17PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> - Forwarded message from Sugar Labs Bugs >>> - >>> >>> From: Sugar Labs Bugs >>> Subject: Re: #1842 UNSP: Jour

Re: [Sugar-devel] activity record translate

2010-07-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 July 2010 16:59, Esteban Arias wrote: > hi, > > Can you translate for the "Cronometro" and "Duración" combo values, the > words "seconds" and "minutes" to spanish on activity Record. > and add tilde on word Cronometro (--> Cronómetro) There was a problem with pootle but it has been fixed. Y

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Measure-31

2010-07-27 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4197 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27000/measure-31.xo Release notes: Some minor bug fixes and enhancements: * avoid race condition that leads to image capture corruption (#2119)