Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-19 Thread forster
> The schools have Windows-based servers that I know for sure allow CIFS > connections. I'll have to investigate if there are alternate means of > connecting (maybe a Web interface). why not use Moodle or Sharepoint or Blackboard? (depending on the school's preference) Its all tested technology a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 18 May 2011 16:49, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Martin Langhoff's message of Tue May 17 18:34:09 +0200 2011: > >> Unfortuntely, there's no easy way to do it with CIFS or NFS -- it >> would be an interesting addition to Sugar (possibly to the Journal) >> but it's a big project. > > NFS mo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 18 May 2011 02:34, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Sridhar, > > I don't fully understand your scenario. I'll admit that I was vague. Let me clarify... > You say an XS is not an option... but I thought you were using XS, > with Jerry's help?  If you are using XS, you can use Moodle. We are active

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse cache bloat

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Silva
I've implemented the first part of this patch. It deletes partial downloads when user clicks on cancel button or deletes journal download entry. This should already mitigate thie situation. Alas, the partial download still remains when there is a crash. I could remove partial downloads on star

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: new toolbar for Typing Turtle

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Silva
Looks like we're still duplicating efforts. http://git.sugarlabs.org/typing-turtle/mainline/merge_requests/1 Go to this address to see which ones I already worked on. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/TODO#Adding_new_Toolbars Excellent to see you are being productive :-) Sebastian El 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch for Jukebox: New toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread manuel quiñones
> Manu, great to see you active around here. Hi Sebastian, I'm sorry we duplicated efforts. Let's the mantainer of Jukebox review both patches in order to continue. Saludos/Greetings! -- .. manuq .. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.suga

[Sugar-devel] Patch: new toolbar for Watch Me

2011-05-19 Thread manuel quiñones
Hi, Here is a simple patch that adds the new toolbar to the Watch Me activity. Cheers. -- .. manuq .. 0001-New-toolbar.patch Description: Binary data ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/su

[Sugar-devel] Patch: new toolbar for Typing Turtle

2011-05-19 Thread manuel quiñones
Hi, simple patch that adds the new toolbar to the Typing Turtle activity. Cheers, -- .. manuq .. 0001-New-toolbar.patch Description: Binary data ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-d

[Sugar-devel] Browse cache bloat

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi, dirakx and I are working on Browse and are trying to find a way to fix http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2659 - [dx2] Browse should have a cache cleaning policy It seems to us the only way to bloat the .sugar/default/org.laptop.WebActivity/instance dir is by doing a large download and then

[Sugar-devel] Booting Linux over JavaScript.

2011-05-19 Thread Sameer Verma
Try http://bellard.org/jslinux/ in Google Chrome/Chromium or Firefox 4. Original post at http://lwn.net/Articles/443200/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ htt

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release FileMixAuto-3

2011-05-19 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4402 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27371/filemixauto-3.xo Release notes: Version 3 - Record Activity compatibility updated. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.or

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Please review "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" on Amazon

2011-05-19 Thread James Simmons
Caryl, You can review a book even if you haven't bought it. You just need an account on Amazon. And while it is true that three sales had a dramatic effect on the book's ranking, I would expect diminishing returns to kick in pretty soon. > P.S.  What are the chances of getting the Spanish versi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Please review "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" on Amazon

2011-05-19 Thread Bryant Patten
Looks great on a Motorola Xoom Android Tablet with the Android Kindle App. A bargain at twice the price! Bryant On May 19, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hey! You don't need a Kindle to read a Kindle edition of a book! Just download the reader program from Amazon. Let's all buy

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Please review "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" on Amazon

2011-05-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hey! You don't need a Kindle to read a Kindle edition of a book! Just download the reader program from Amazon. Let's all buy a copy of the ebook! (it's only 99 cents!). That will boost the ratings quite a bit. You might pass these links on to others you know who might like to try their hand

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release FileMix-6

2011-05-19 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4329 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27370/filemix-6.xo Release notes: Version 6 - Record Activity compatibility updated. Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org _

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH 2/2] disabling become root button

2011-05-19 Thread Rafael Ortiz
Temporaly Disabling become root button on terminal activity avoiding problems reported SL#2756 and #2597, also in merge request on gitorious Signed-off-by: Rafael Ortiz --- terminal.py | 22 +++--- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) mode change 100644 => 1

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH 1/2] New icon for terminal activity SL#1492

2011-05-19 Thread Rafael Ortiz
From: Rafael Ortiz Changing icon for terminal activity SL#1492, also in merge request. Signed-off-by: Rafael Ortiz --- activity/activity-terminal.svg |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/activity/activity-terminal.svg b/activity/activity-terminal.svg inde

[Sugar-devel] Please review "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" on Amazon

2011-05-19 Thread James Simmons
The e-book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is in the Kindle Store on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Sugar-Activities-ebook/dp/B0050VAHKW/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 On its first day it racked up three sales at .99 apiece. Sales seem to have stalled at three. Amazon tells me that based on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch for Jukebox: New toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Silva
About these patches for new toolbars that we shared back in march, yes I should have sent them to the list. I did not think we were this formal with activities development, but I agree we should be, to avoid duplication of work. I will go now and dispatch my patches to the list, meanwhile you can

Re: [Sugar-devel] [OLPC-AU] another Favorites View proposal

2011-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > I don't want to coop the current thread about search, but I have one > concrete proposal (for which I volunteer to write a patch if we have > consensus) and one long-standing feature request that we should dust off. > > (1) I propose that wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Get Books-7

2011-05-19 Thread James Simmons
Bastien, I have installed Pathagar and describe the process in "E-Book Enlightenment". calibre would give you a very similar website with less work that Pathagar would require, and it would be easier to set up for non-technical people. James Simmons On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Bastien wr

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Infoslicer: Avoid crash when a article is downloaded - SL #2856

2011-05-19 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
--- book.py |5 - bookview.py |1 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/book.py b/book.py index 681bdba..f28ff99 100644 --- a/book.py +++ b/book.py @@ -71,11 +71,14 @@ class Book(gobject.GObject): self._article.uid = entry['uid'] self.

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Register with schoolserver: adopt to changes in xmlrpclib for python 2.7 OLPC #10776

2011-05-19 Thread Simon Schampijer
Python 2.7 switched from using httplib.HTTP to using httplib.HTTPConnection, as the httplib.HTTPConnection includes a timeout by default we can use a xmlrpclib.Transport directly and do not need to subclass it. --- src/jarabe/desktop/schoolserver.py |6 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding $HOME/Documents to the volumes toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: > I was wondering if you had considered if the Documents folder is translated. > I know that gnome when changing the default language for the user sometimes > renames the folders ("Documents" -> "Documentos, "Download" -> "Descargas", > et

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding $HOME/Documents to the volumes toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hello: I was wondering if you had considered if the Documents folder is translated. I know that gnome when changing the default language for the user sometimes renames the folders ("Documents" -> "Documentos, "Download" -> "Descargas", etc) This is made usually during instalation or when the user

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding $HOME/Documents to the volumes toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Gary Martin >> wrote: >> > Hi Walter, >> > >> > On 14 May 2011, at 15:35, Walter Bender wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Gary

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding $HOME/Documents to the volumes toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Gary Martin > wrote: > > Hi Walter, > > > > On 14 May 2011, at 15:35, Walter Bender wrote: > > > >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Gary Martin > >> wrote: > >>> Hi Walter, > >>> > >>> On 10 May 2011, at 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch for Jukebox: New toolbar

2011-05-19 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Yes, Manu is working with me. About the patchs from Sebastian, in what other activities have you worked? Can you send the patches to sugar-devel? The merge request does not work, because nobody receive a mail and there are not review. Gonzalo 2011/5/19 Rafael Ortiz > Hi Manu. > > 2011/5/18 manu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [OLPC-AU] another Favorites View proposal

2011-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Further, I myself have over 100 Activities installed on my XO (their code >>> physically resides on an SD card). To show *all* of them in one screen >>> makes their icons very small. >>> >> >> Do you use the Spiral? >> > > Yes. But when

[Sugar-devel] Resources for developing for XOs

2011-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have complied some resources for developing for XO-AU and OLPC OS builds: http://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/wiki/Development Sridhar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Get Books-7

2011-05-19 Thread Bastien
Thanks all your answers. I wanted to use GetBooks locally since 1) Internet is not (yet) here and 2) I'm not sure the volunteers on the ground will know how to install pathagar on the server. But I'll gather all this information and make it available to OLPC France for our next meeting -- hopef