Re: [Sugar-devel] [laptop-accessibility] Fwd: screenreader for sugar

2010-08-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:15, David K Parker davpar...@gmail.com wrote: Was sticky keys ever added to this project? That's a core component of accessibility. Also, in the future, if touch screens are added, capacitive ones will be a poor choice because they don't respond at all to prosthetic

Re: [Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/24/2010 03:08 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: Tomeu, thanks for looking into this. Is a workaround to install an earlier version of Fedora? Tomeu attached a patch to the ticket - works fine for me on F13 here. Make sure the patch is applied against GConf-dbus: - sugar-jbuild cleanone

Re: [Sugar-devel] recent jhbuild breakage

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/23/2010 07:19 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, as several people have noticed, updating jhbuild will result in sugar not starting up. Attached to http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2228 can be found a patch that adds these dependencies to jhbuild, any testing and commentaries will be

[Sugar-devel] Add dependency on pyXDG

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, pyxdg [1] provides facilities to access freedesktop.org standards. We would like to add it as a dependency to the sugar platform. Real life example [2]: In sugar-jhbuild this will not discover that these files are not under sugar/jhbuild/install/share but can be found under /usr/share.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Add dependency on pyXDG

2010-08-25 Thread Walter Bender
FWIW, we use this in the GNOME version of TurtleArt. +1 from me. -walter On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, pyxdg [1] provides facilities to access freedesktop.org standards. We would like to add it as a dependency to the sugar platform. Real

[Sugar-devel] Bump Python dependency from 2.5 to 2.6

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, raised during the review of [1] some code was relying on Python 2.6 (with open(COUNTRY_CODES_PATH) as codes_file:). Is it sane to switch to this Python version for the Sugar platform? More readings on what is new in 2.6 at [2]. Python 2.6 is available in F11, hence 0.84. Not sure for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

2010-08-25 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote: On 08/24/2010 03:08 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: Tomeu, thanks for looking into this. Is a workaround to install an earlier version of Fedora? Tomeu attached a patch to the ticket - works fine for me on F13 here.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bump Python dependency from 2.5 to 2.6

2010-08-25 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 25 August 2010 15:23, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, raised during the review of [1] some code was relying on Python 2.6 (with open(COUNTRY_CODES_PATH) as codes_file:). Is it sane to switch to this Python version for the Sugar platform? More readings on what is new in

Re: [Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/25/2010 04:25 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.dewrote: On 08/24/2010 03:08 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: Tomeu, thanks for looking into this. Is a workaround to install an earlier version of Fedora? Tomeu attached a patch to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bump Python dependency from 2.5 to 2.6

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 08/25/2010 04:23 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, raised during the review of [1] some code was relying on Python 2.6 (with open(COUNTRY_CODES_PATH) as codes_file:). Is it sane to switch to this Python version for the Sugar platform? More readings on what is new in 2.6 at [2]. Python 2.6

Re: [Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

2010-08-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 16:28, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 08/25/2010 04:25 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.dewrote: On 08/24/2010 03:08 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: Tomeu, thanks for looking into this. Is a

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-artwork-0.89.4

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.89.4.tar.bz2 == News == * Icons for sorting filter (size, creation date, last edited) in the Journal #1915 (Gary C. Martin) * Icons for touchpad section in the Control Panel #2006 (Walter Bender)

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.89.4

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.89.4.tar.bz2 == News == * Delete activities profile data when uninstall #2074 (Martin Abente) * Remove sugar/__init__.py, it should come from sugar-base #1868 (Tomeu Vizoso) * Remove Presence

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-0.89.4

2010-08-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.89.4.tar.bz2 == News == * 3G Support: show connection errors #1759 * Unneeded debug logs #1862 * Activity data directory should be deleted when an activity is deleted #2074 * Sudden death while clicking around on

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-presence-service-0.89.1

2010-08-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.89.1.tar.bz2 == Changes == * Remove connection handling now that the Shell takes care of it. Also make sure we have all the info we need right after the service starts.

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-presence-service-0.90.1

2010-08-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
This release is only made because a 0.90.0 was made before 0.88.1. So with this, the latest released code has the highest version number, although unfortunately we have an unstable release with an even number. Sorry for the confusion, time will fix it somewhat. == Source ==

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2010-08-25

2010-08-25 Thread Walter Bender
==Sugar Digest== 1. I wrote about a discussion with John Gilmore in April [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Archive/Current_Events/2010-04-01]. When John asked how many patches have been contributed by Sugar end-users, I responded that community members have contributed patches but that I was unaware

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-presence-service-0.90.1

2010-08-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:18:32PM -0400, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: This release is only made because a 0.90.0 was made before 0.88.1. So with this, the latest released code has the highest version number, although unfortunately we have an unstable release with an even number. Sorry for the

[Sugar-devel] GSoC question

2010-08-25 Thread samir menon
So I have hearing a lot about Google Summer of Code on the mailing list (specifically,, Dinko Galetic's project!) What happens when they finish their project? Do the projects (read: Dinko's project) get submitted as a patch for the respective activity (read: Pippy)? Or is the project just for

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC question

2010-08-25 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 25 August 2010 19:44, samir menon menon.sa...@gmail.com wrote: So I have hearing a lot about Google Summer of Code on the mailing list (specifically,, Dinko Galetic's project!) What happens when they finish their project? Do the projects (read: Dinko's project) get submitted as a patch for

[Sugar-devel] [Design]Control Panel max_column value

2010-08-25 Thread usr
Hi all, I was working on Bug-Ubuntu (LP #617582).[1] Now while fixing the bug I narrowed down to the controlpanel/gui.py file . In that file the value of _MAX_COLUMNS was set to 6. After discussing with alsroot, we decided that it should not be hardcoded. Instead its value should be

Re: [Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

2010-08-25 Thread Erik Blankinship
- sugar-jbuild cleanone GConf-dbus - remove the GConf-checkout Could you elaborate on this step? I am not 100% sure what to remove or how to remove it. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Design]Control Panel max_column value

2010-08-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 August 2010 13:21, u...@dev.seeta.in wrote: I request you that if you have a better solution for this problem then please let me know. In another discussion on this bug, it seemed like we had reached agreement that the core part of the issue was that the text that acts as a label for an

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Sliderule-13

2010-08-25 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4222 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.88 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27020/sliderule-13.xo Release notes: * Added K (cube, cube root), S (sin, asin), and T (tan, atan) scales * Moved results display off of toolbar

[Sugar-devel] video conversion tools

2010-08-25 Thread Sean Linton
Can anyone comment on the best video conversion tools for Sugar, and how best to install them? -- *Sean Linton * Ph D Student, Department of Music University of Otago, PO Box 56 Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Tel: +642102322848 Solomon Islands Indigenous Music

Re: [Sugar-devel] video conversion tools

2010-08-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 08/25/2010 10:44 PM, Sean Linton wrote: Can anyone comment on the best video conversion tools for Sugar, and how best to install them? If I understand correctly, you want to install a tool on your normal desktop computer than will convert videos to a format that is easily played by Sugar.

Re: [Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

2010-08-25 Thread Erik Blankinship
I continue to have trouble getting jhbuild to run. I hope the community can help me with installation best practices so that all new developers can easily contribute. I am on a fresh f13 installation on a laptop that has run sugar-jhbuild in the past. I removed my previous jhbuild and git'd a