Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 7 Aug 2010, at 21:08, Tiago Marques wrote: > Just killing a random activity is a terrible idea becayse you don't want your > product behaving like it's defective; the pop up idea is way more > acceptable(and a lot better than having the system randomly behaving like > it's crashed). Either w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Adding committers on gitorious (was: Re: [PATCH] Remove nbsp chars from the html string before parsing)

2010-08-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 6 Aug 2010, at 13:35, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> I was just throwing in the idea here. I will bother you further only >> once I have a realistic plan in mind (and confidence in the ability to >> execute it with our limited resources) :) > > Sorry if I sounded harsh, I wanted to explain why some

[Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-07 Thread Tim McNamara
Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? I have spent some time over the last three days getting Sugarbot to run in sugar-jhbuild. After a few code changes, and lots of reading, I have been successful. Some changes that needed to be made from the 0.1 release: - a few syntax

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > >> So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of >> free memory plus buffers and caches? > > A polled design is clearly inferior to a proper notification s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
>> invitation icons seem to persist long after all invitors/invitees are gone. > > is this as 'simple' as removing the notification when the activity id is no > longer being > shared? Or would you like the UI to still indicate that you had missed the > event/s? I imagine if someone clicks on a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Mikus, On 7 Aug 2010, at 20:01, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> We already readjust the network neighborhood layout on the fly when we >> switch view. It's funny to see the access points slide around :-) > > Haven't bothered to keep track of the appearance/disappearance of XO and > AP icons in N

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> We already readjust the network neighborhood layout on the fly when we > switch view. It's funny to see the access points slide around :-) Haven't bothered to keep track of the appearance/disappearance of XO and AP icons in Neighborhood View - it's hard to figure out whether their presence on

Re: [Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

2010-08-07 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > walter -- currently we try at boot time and set the touchpad to > whichever mode the user last requested.  moving this > initialization to sugar was one of the last changes you made to > the sugar code, i think. > > but when you were in the office

[Sugar-devel] Lazy Network Neighborhood updates

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 19:36 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > On a second thought, Sugar should probably only listen to events > relevants to what is being currently displayed. This would display > outdated data for a short while and would mean significant rework but > may be a worthy goal for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 19:33 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > > BTW, looking at top, it seems that Sugar and other processes wake up > > quite frequently when the system is supposed to be completely idle. It > > may be background checks for updates, NetworkManager updates or the > > presence servi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 19:33, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 19:31, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: >> >>> So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of >>> free memory plus buffers and caches? >> >> A pol

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 19:31, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > >> So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of >> free memory plus buffers and caches? > > A polled design is clearly inferior to a proper notification sys

[Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 18:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > So we would have a periodic wakeup? The test would be the amount of > free memory plus buffers and caches? A polled design is clearly inferior to a proper notification system, but it has the advantage of being simple and not requiring

Re: [Sugar-devel] The Git Community Book

2010-08-07 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Just wanted to share a link to this book, check out the "gitcasts"! > http://www.gitcasts.com/ > > http://book.git-scm.com/ > > Regards, > > Tomeu ___ Sugar-devel mailin

Re: [Sugar-devel] MicroSD Card performance variance on XO-1.5

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 18:11, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > [cc += sugar-devel, tch] > > El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 11:27 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > >> Btw, have read that some notifications about available memory have >> landed in cgroups in recent kernels. The Sugar shell could listen to >> those

Re: [Sugar-devel] MicroSD Card performance variance on XO-1.5

2010-08-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
[cc += sugar-devel, tch] El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 11:27 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: > Btw, have read that some notifications about available memory have > landed in cgroups in recent kernels. The Sugar shell could listen to > those and give a chance to background activities to save their state

[Sugar-devel] The Git Community Book

2010-08-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Just wanted to share a link to this book, check out the "gitcasts"! http://book.git-scm.com/ Regards, Tomeu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [REVIEW] adding spiral to Home View

2010-08-07 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
> > > P.S. Random Paint related question. Are you still in the process of tidying > up the toolbar and paint tools? I'm thinking of spending some time there > with the main intention of designing and implementing support for the new > Sugar toolbars. I didn't want to duplicate our effort if you're

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Dr. Geo-1008

2010-08-07 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4323 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27005/drgeoii-1008.xo Release notes: Important note: On your XO laptop, when you want to quit DrGeo, click in the activity background (reduce Dr

Re: [Sugar-devel] [REVIEW] adding spiral to Home View

2010-08-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzaalo, On 7 Aug 2010, at 02:09, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > - Downloaded a load more activities to try and trigger the spiral, and > notices another three svg icons that don't render correctly in the latest F13 > builds. Scratch, Paint, and Kandid. I'll fix them up and email the activity