Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On 1 August 2010 12:11, Aleksey Lim wrote: > so, 3:0 for "cubes".. > > I guess the place where these cubes are produced could be named > refinery.sugarlabs.org +1 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/

Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:00:04AM +0100, Gary Martin wrote: > > On 31 Jul 2010, at 23:24, Aleksey Lim wrote: > {...} > so, 3:0 for "cubes".. > Sugar "cubes" nicely suggest a regular, ordered volume that would hold packed content, which

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] (fav)icons for SL sites

2010-07-31 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, What about having normal favions and icons for SL sites (current favions looks for me like "$" symbols). I already have a couple of ideas: * library icon for activities.sl.o like http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4089 I hope after switching to new AMO codebase, ASLO w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:00:04AM +0100, Gary Martin wrote: > On 31 Jul 2010, at 23:24, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Just wondering, how to name Sugar Packages. > > > > The reasons to not reuse "package" name - it is not regular > > (GNU/Linux distributions) packages, because: > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Gary Martin
On 31 Jul 2010, at 23:24, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering, how to name Sugar Packages. > > The reasons to not reuse "package" name - it is not regular > (GNU/Linux distributions) packages, because: > > * primal deploying model is decentralized (via 0install) not centralized >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering, how to name Sugar Packages. > > The reasons to not reuse "package" name - it is not regular > (GNU/Linux distributions) packages, because: > > * primal deploying model is decentralized (via 0install) not centralize

[Sugar-devel] Name for Sugar Packages

2010-07-31 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Just wondering, how to name Sugar Packages. The reasons to not reuse "package" name - it is not regular (GNU/Linux distributions) packages, because: * primal deploying model is decentralized (via 0install) not centralized which is the core point of regular distros * sugar "packag

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 30.07.2010, at 20:25, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Christian, > >> Hi Chris--to address scalability we have a list view from which >> you can select favorite activities to go in the ring. This is a >> similar technique to the OSX dock or Windows taskbar. > > I don't think this is working out. Yep

Re: [Sugar-devel] getting TA into debain and universe

2010-07-31 Thread David Farning
Matt, In order to reduce the maintain burden OLPC Debian and Ubuntu Sugarteam have a rather distinct workflow. Would you mind joining IRC #ubuntu-sugarteam between 9am and noon and 9pm and mid night? We have developers from around the world working so those are two prefer times we try to be avai

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on <=0.84

2010-07-31 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:04:35PM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: > >> > I agree that 'hiding' the action buttons away in a toolbar is rather > >> > unfortunate :-( , but wouldn't placing buttons as in the original > >> > layout eat up vertical space? > >> > >> No more than before (as has been the desi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on <=0.84

2010-07-31 Thread Anish Mangal
> With this version, I n longer have an edit toolbar. This is a regression. > No (and neither does the current Pippy-36 version), I've yet to merge that code into the mainline. This was just for testing out local toolkit. > It really is not so difficult to maintain toolbars across different > ver

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on <=0.84

2010-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: >>> > I agree that 'hiding' the action buttons away in a toolbar is rather >>> > unfortunate :-( , but wouldn't placing buttons as in the original >>> > layout eat up vertical space? >>> >>> No more than before (as has been the design for years

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Problem with Pippy layout on <=0.84

2010-07-31 Thread Anish Mangal
>> > I agree that 'hiding' the action buttons away in a toolbar is rather >> > unfortunate :-( , but wouldn't placing buttons as in the original >> > layout eat up vertical space? >> >> No more than before (as has been the design for years). > > The old design with the buttons in the middle always

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
I have a version which will let you reposition the icons (haven't added swap yet) but I am not sure how best to reset the layout. We could have a separate icon on the Home View secondary palette that will reset the spiral to an initial state. Any other ideas? -walter On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:40

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
I am heading off to vacation for a week, but I may get a chance to play with moving/snapping the icons as well. In the meantime, the code is quite simple: --- favoriteslayout.py 2010-07-20 13:31:05.0 -0400 +++ favoriteslayout.py 2010-07-30 23:26:56.0 -0400 + +class MyLayout(Ring

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >> >> >> >> {...} >> >> >> >> Here is a tighter spiral of 74 icons for the home view (running in the >> Sugar emulator at 8