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

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2010/8/11 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: We used to do that, the problem is that we don't control our platform as Google controls Android and you need to make sure that resources that need to be specific of each child process aren't shared (dbus and X connections, etc). I'm personally more

[Sugar-devel] mapping activity with OpenStreetMaps

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, one more excellent thing coming from NZ: http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ Anybody up for doing an activity that uses it? Should be a matter of placing the widget inside the canvas and connecting some buttons to call some methods on it. Regards, Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse-115 stops when pop-up tab closes

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:39, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:24:43AM +, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: cairo-1.8.8-1.fc11.i586 [...] Traceback (most recent call last): [...]   File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/activity.py, line 600, in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove bitmap icon handling from s-p-s

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 00:38, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: This patch gets rid of some almost-dead code in sugar-presence-service for handling bitmap avatars. The idea is that the PS is going to disappear soon. Do we really want to make such cleanups given that? Regards, Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse-115 stops when pop-up tab closes

2010-08-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
This exception doesn't seem related to the cairo bug. I'll try to reproduce it on my XO. Please file a bug report if you haven't already. Cairo version: cairo-1.8.8-1.fc11.i586 Traceback (most recent call last):   File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/__init__.py, line 108,

[Sugar-devel] code submitted for review should have been tested

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, any code contributor is expecting that their patches will be tested by the reviewer? If that is the case, we should make more clear in the review process that patches should have been tested _before_ they are submitted for acceptance. Because of this specific commit, file transfers have been

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove bitmap icon handling from s-p-s

2010-08-11 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 00:38, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: This patch gets rid of some almost-dead code in sugar-presence-service for handling bitmap avatars. The idea is that the PS is going to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-11 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Sun Aug 08 02:06:21 +0200 2010: Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? Sure, go ahead! If you need commit rights, please write to systems@ and I'll transfer the project to you. The original author, a GSoC student, has already stated

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 17:17, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Sun Aug 08 02:06:21 +0200 2010: Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? Sure, go ahead! If you need commit rights, please write to systems@ and

[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Remove Presence Service

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, have just entered a new feature page for the removal of the Presence Service, which is being proposed as a feature for 0.90. In the page you have links to previous discussions and to the bigger plans. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Remove_Presence_Service Regards, Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove bitmap icon handling from s-p-s

2010-08-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 13:28, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 00:38, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: This patch gets rid of some almost-dead code in sugar-presence-service for

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

2010-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi James, On 11 Aug 2010, at 04:05, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:48:00PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: ... and was also unsuccessful in convincing OLPC to prelink the shared libraries before shipping a release, thus allowing read-only pages to not get dirtied with shared

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

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
gary wrote: P.S. of corse you'll now tell me os850 was also pre-linked (I couldn't see anything about it in the build notes for either os850 or os851), and I'll look silly for trying to test for a difference, confirming my results were non significant ;-) that's exactly right.

Re: [Sugar-devel] mapping activity with OpenStreetMaps

2010-08-11 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: Hi, one more excellent thing coming from NZ: http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ Anybody up for doing an activity that uses it? Should be a matter of placing the widget inside the canvas and connecting some buttons

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

2010-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
On 11 Aug 2010, at 18:42, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: gary wrote: P.S. of corse you'll now tell me os850 was also pre-linked (I couldn't see anything about it in the build notes for either os850 or os851), and I'll look silly for trying to test for a difference, confirming my

Re: [Sugar-devel] mapping activity with OpenStreetMaps

2010-08-11 Thread Holt
Far more up-to-date is: CMU volunteer Nick Doiron's very latest Map Activity here -- with 5 offline MapPacks to date for Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda, Peru, Haiti -- priceless in developing countries with weak Internet: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap Walter Bender wrote: On

[Sugar-devel] Unit integration testing - tools discussion

2010-08-11 Thread Tim McNamara
I would like to start a thread on unit integration testing. I have two main questions: 1) Where should tests be located 2) Which testing framework to use Some options for 1: - every Sugar project decides for itself - root/tests in each project - a meta project that houses tests for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarbot working on latest Sugar

2010-08-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On 12 August 2010 03:17, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.orgwrote: Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Sun Aug 08 02:06:21 +0200 2010: Is there interest in pushing an updated sugarbot to git.sl.o? Sure, go ahead! If you need commit rights, please write to systems@ and I'll

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Speak-17

2010-08-11 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4038 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27008/speak-17.xo Release notes: * Get rid of smart bundles.. and look ahead for smart packaging system Sugar Labs Activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Speak.Activity v16 on Build 802 - Problem

2010-08-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:19:23AM -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Forwarding this to sugar-devel -- Forwarded message -- From: Tony Rizos tri...@pacbell.net Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:44 PM Subject: Speak.Activity v16 on Build 802 - Problem To:

Re: [Sugar-devel] code submitted for review should have been tested

2010-08-11 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:22:00PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: any code contributor is expecting that their patches will be tested by the reviewer? I don't think a reviewer should be expected to test patches as part of a review process, but if they choose to test then they should indicate this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove bitmap icon handling from s-p-s

2010-08-11 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: The idea is that the PS is going to disappear soon. Do we really want to make such cleanups given that? I don't think unimplemented future plans are an acceptable justification for refusal of a patch. -- James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unit integration testing - tools discussion

2010-08-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On 12 August 2010 13:30, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: 2) Which testing framework to use Whatever the test developer and activity developer can agree on. I don't know enough about the options to choose. (p.s. I'm aware of your work on Sugarbot. While this is fantastic, I'm