Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Errors from Soas 29

2019-01-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 10:28 +0100, Samson Goddy wrote: > Yes, we did. Upgraded metacity and Sugar, also made changes to the > ~/profile.py > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 10:26 AM Peter Robinson wrote: > > Have you applied all the latest updates to Fedora, a number of > > issues have been fixed with

Re: [Sugar-devel] MIME type?

2016-06-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 18:26 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Just beautiful :) It is. @Sam is this a product of Sphinx and Alabaster? I read [1] "as of Sphinx 1.3, Alabaster is ... the default theme." Previously I tried using Alabaster as the theme for Help Activity, it looked super, but I could

Re: [Sugar-devel] What to use for documenting new sugar activities?

2016-06-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
We use Sphinx in Sugar Activity Help. [1] https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/how_to_help.html [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Help/Contribute Thanks, Iain On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 02:57 +, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Hello all, > Should I use sphinx for documentation? > > Yash Agarwal > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] "Another osbuild instance is running" error

2016-01-01 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2016-01-02 at 10:21 +0530, Shraddha Barke wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 08:38:34PM +0530, Shraddha Barke wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, James Cameron wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:26:26PM +0530, Shraddha Barke

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN RFC] Onboarding

2015-12-31 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi Sam, This is a fine proposal and I cannot fault your 15 points. One comment, some are essential, "first ten minutes of use issues" and some might be seen as essential to getting productive. Of course onboarding runs at many levels, and may be significantly different for different user groups.

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Gallery - Proposition - Review Request

2015-09-14 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
tion, so it has turned out bigger than I would have liked. They also commented that SoaS Loader is not properly supported by the sugarlabs wiki - this is something I must try to fix. Of course I would welcome any feedback on SoaS Loader or Sugar Gallery. Thanks in advance, Iain Brown Douglas [1]

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS

2015-09-09 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
orks on every time and never freezes is a > > > > small ASUS EEE PC network 6 years old. > > > > > > > > Likewise, when installing SOAS with Linux Live USB Creator it installs > > > > VirtualBox as an option, allowing one to launch SOAS from within > > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS

2015-07-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi David, From what you say, you already did a search for your error message. Does this Fedora forum answer cover your issue? http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=301945 I have been working with the script livecd-iso-to-disk and it works fine. I am working on SoaS Loader, here is a

[Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar 0.104.1 - upgrade to 0.105.1, on Ubuntu

2015-05-28 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
. No problems observed with the upgrade, original ~/.sugar remains intact. Attached original /etc/apt/sources.list Cheers, Iain Brown Douglas [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu#OLPC_Ubuntu_Sugar_14.04.2_Trusty_LTS [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu #deb

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS Fedora 22 Final Release: Collaboration in Activities

2015-05-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 10:23 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:41 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 08:10:38PM -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote: On 5/20/2015 6:52 PM, James Cameron wrote: Are you finding this problem with peer to peer (telepathy salut

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS Fedora 22 Final Release: Collaboration in Activities

2015-05-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:41 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 08:10:38PM -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote: On 5/20/2015 6:52 PM, James Cameron wrote: Are you finding this problem with peer to peer (telepathy salut) or with a jabber server (telepathy gabble)? Do the two

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
elements plus Sean's proof_reading_corrections, if it is required. Iain Peter, when need this be finished? Gonzalo On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 13:30 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Sam P. sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Peter, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-18 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
/pasted text should either be replacd with simple double parentheses ( quot;) or the HTML entities ldquo; and rdquo; thanks Sean On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 15:14 +0200, Sean DALY wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 22 destroys Gtk.Menu based palettes

2015-05-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 12:00 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Sorry Iain, my mistake. No problem. Iain Gonzalo On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 00:34 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Ouch

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 15:14 +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Peter - Walter's edits were for the Activities descriptions, mine were for the introduction, no reconciliation necessary Sean On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Walter sent some

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 22 destroys Gtk.Menu based palettes

2015-05-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 00:34 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Ouch. Too bad nobody reported this before. Ouch, ouch, http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2015-February/002762.html :) Iain I remember a similar error fixed by b9d6b628a98fc17f5e92a344450b6336f1a2b2ce We don't want invest more

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 22 destroys Gtk.Menu based palettes

2015-05-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 00:34 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Ouch. Too bad nobody reported this before. I remember a similar error fixed by b9d6b628a98fc17f5e92a344450b6336f1a2b2ce I agree, the symptoms seem to have a similar stem to: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4751,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Cannot write a function definition for a copy button.

2015-04-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Thanks, Sebastian, for a very helpful and tactful reply. All the errors I failed to understand are from WebKitGtk. Thanks, Iain On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 09:31 -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: On 19/04/15 05:10, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Following a month of Learn Python the Hard Way, I

[Sugar-devel] Cannot write a function definition for a copy button.

2015-04-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Following a month of Learn Python the Hard Way, I cannot get an Edit Toolbar to behave fully correctly, in Activity Help, as modified for SoaS Loader. I have tried (in various permutations) to make use of code borrowed from Terminal, Pippy, Develop, Browse, ReadETexts, and Write. I get stuck just

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi Sean, Is it a thing that you would contemplate now, to approach Oracle (for corporate sponsorship, perhaps) but in particular about what support they would offer Sugarlabs towards our targets? Would there be a view against this idea? Regards, Iain On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 11:37 +0100, Sean

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects - SOAS

2015-03-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
platforms. Tony On 03/20/2015 06:26 AM, sugar-devel-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:25:55 + From: Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com To: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 11:49 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:25:55PM +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Thank you for taking the time to make a thoughtful contribution. Perhaps you will forgive me if I brainstorm this a bit. Yep, no worries. Interesting, but you went

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi Jerry, On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 18:02 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: Hi Iain: On March 19, 2015 at 5:25 PM Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Hi James, Thank you for taking the time to make a thoughtful contribution. Perhaps you will forgive me if I brainstorm

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 18:44 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On March 19, 2015 at 6:30 PM Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Hi Jerry, If one knew that a SoaS CD would always make a Sugar stick, the prospect of selling the CD, (by third parties ?) becomes more

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
, and grub instructed to find only the USB SoaS system. With reasonably priced availability of 8 GB sticks, this would seem a preferable option to me. Regards, Iain On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 03:54:02PM +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 12:12 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote

[Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi All, I wonder if anyone would think it appropriate (or inappropriate) to add this idea to Google Summer of Code [1]? To write a script for use with Sugar on a Stick, which would probe the capacity of an inserted USB stick,and deliver the livecd-iso-to-disk command on confirmation by the

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
do carry this idea forward - my idea (or the itch) was never as big as this! I will give you all the support I can. Meanwhile I shall plug away at getting SoaS Loader to work properly. Any offers of help welcome. Regards, Iain El 19/03/15 a las 10:51, Iain Brown Douglas escibió: I take

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 10:11 -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: But perhaps you could envision a more complete solution related to Sugar on a Stick's need (Fedora / Trisquel / future variants). This is an important part of your reply. My envisioning does not go that far, :( Regards, Iain

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
that. Regards, Sebastian El 19/03/15 a las 09:38, Iain Brown Douglas escibió: Hi All, I wonder if anyone would think it appropriate (or inappropriate) to add this idea to Google Summer of Code [1]? I take that as an `inappropriate`, then :) Iain [3] http://www.linuxliveusb.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
duplicate SoaS, yes. SoaS Loader [2] is horribly clunky, *but* it is a way to get the instructions where they are accessible. Perhaps I should instead ask here whether anyone would work with me on SoaS Loader to make such a script. Iain Gonzalo On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Iain Brown Douglas

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:02 -0800, Thomas Gilliard wrote: On 02/26/2015 07:08 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Hi all, I have been making a presentation with the instructions and screen shots to make Sugar on a Stick. I have written up my progress so far on [1] and placed three screen

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 16:53 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:02 -0800, Thomas Gilliard wrote: ... It is also possible to just run the command: liveusb-creator in root terminal after # dnf install liveusb-creator is run. The new USB-creator will not show

[Sugar-devel] Testing SoaS Rawhide, F22, Sugar 0.103.2

2015-02-09 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi, thank you all for another great version of Sugar, which I have tested briefly. Test image: Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-rawhide-20150207.iso Test environment: a) LiveUSB, written with dd [image is too big for a CD] b) USB stick written with livecd-iso-to-disk Results seem same

Re: [Sugar-devel] Starting a new web activity : problem when closing activity, and with icon design

2014-12-10 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
. Regards 2014-12-03 11:50 GMT+01:00 Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com: You could eliminate that by substituting a known working .svg borrowed from another activity. Iain On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 11:16 +0100, laurent bernabe wrote

[Sugar-devel] Testing Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-TC4.iso

2014-12-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hello, One new problem seen, My settings = Background fails to open, and fails to close nicely. Hard drive install of Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-TC4.iso With yum upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing sugar* Log file here http://fpaste.org/156514/ Iain

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-TC4.iso

2014-12-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Sorry I'm not in position to download another .iso now. I saw it for first time last night, and it persisted after upgrade. I guess I could try again in about 10 hours. Sorry I can't do more. Iain From Huawei mobile. Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Please confirm if the error

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-TC4.iso

2014-12-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
, at least on the LiveOS media. Iain. On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 14:41 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Sorry I'm not in position to download another .iso now. I saw it for first time last night, and it persisted after upgrade. I guess I could try again in about 10 hours. Sorry I can't do more. Iain

[Sugar-devel] Testing Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-5.iso

2014-12-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
The option to display a background seems compromised on a hard drive install just the same on Fedora 21 RC_5 image as reported for the Beta_4. My settings = Background fails to open, and fails to close nicely. Environment: liveinst of Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21-5.iso

Re: [Sugar-devel] Starting a new web activity : problem when closing activity, and with icon design

2014-12-03 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
You could eliminate that by substituting a known working .svg borrowed from another activity. Iain On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 11:16 +0100, laurent bernabe wrote: My intuition is that I've misued stroke and fill entities, though I processed the icon with the sugariconify script. Indeed, in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Starting a new web activity : problem when closing activity, and with icon design

2014-11-30 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
try http://askubuntu.com/questions/369310/how-to-fix-missing-libudev-so-0-for-chrome-to-start-again or http://askubuntu.com/questions/288821/how-do-i-resolve-a-cannot-open-shared-object-file-libudev-so-0-error On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 12:02 +0100, laurent bernabe wrote: Thank you for your

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-28 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
I am very sorry, Peter, that I did not realise that you had applied a patch within 75 minutes of being made aware of it. Thank you for that. More than one could expect from the most dedicated maintainer - a pity you did not say though! I mistakenly thought that your reply was, Before my time,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-28 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
was fixed by peter in sugar-speak 48-2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167791 On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 14:56 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 13:09 +

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing SoaS in a VM

2014-11-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 10:41 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: I am trying to debug what is happening with Write activity, but need restart sugar, then need make the installation permanent. I tested this on VirtualBox with a previous version:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 19:15 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The folder bot/ and its contents were not in the Speak.activity folder. I deleted /usr/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 12:28 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 19:15 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The folder bot/ and its contents were not in the Speak.activity folder

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
and gave acceptable answers to five questions. Iain Gonzalo On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 12:28 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 19:15 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-23 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The folder bot/ and its contents were not in the Speak.activity folder. I deleted /usr/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity/ I re-installed Speak by importing speak-48.xo with a USB

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-23 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 16:16 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 22.11.2014, at 15:15, Jean THIERY jean.thi...@modlibre.info wrote: EToys-116 displays « Cannot find image file: squeak, did you run 'initsqueak -m'? » After clicking on this message, the screen is filled by cars and is not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-22 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 00:52 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: can you uninstall the activity again, and install the activity using the rpm? The rpm should be named sugar-speak I am unfamiliar with the process, and (over-) aware of time constraints. Working on SoaS, in Terminal Activity, I was

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release XO Help-18

2014-11-22 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 23:29 -0500, Sugar Labs Activities wrote: Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4051 Sugar Platform: 0.98 - 0.102 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29029/help-18.xo Release notes: Fix error starting the activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 10:06 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hi Gonzalo, About Speak, please check if there are a file bot/alice.brn in the activity directory. At first sight I do not see the folder bot/ Files list attached. The file is included in the sources

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
/honey/Speak/Speak-48.tar.bz2 Gonzalo On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Thank you for all the work put into this new version

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 16:06 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 10:06 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hi Gonzalo, About Speak, please check if there are a file bot/alice.brn in the activity directory. At first sight I do not see the folder bot/ The folder bot

[Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Thank you for all the work put into this new version of Sugar on a Stick. In brief testing, Sugar on a Stick prepared on a USB stick with Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4.iso seems to run mostly as expected. Help is not available from any tested Activity's icon in the Frame. Help 17.2 does not

Re: [Sugar-devel] new to sugar labs (Gonzalo Odiard)

2014-11-17 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
I have used Tank Attack (love the music) with a six year old tester used to Tux Muth. We have difficulty with seeing the question on a small screen. My tester would appreciate a simple Maths Activity which would present Tux Math type questions, in quick succession, perhaps with less of a story,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Sur] Google Code In wiki page

2014-10-12 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 23:23 +0530, Sai Vineet wrote: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/terms_and_conditions It's buried in there somewhere. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/help_page#beginner On Sun, Oct 12,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Debugging Sugar 0.100 on Cubieboard.

2014-07-15 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 22:14 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: If no Activities are running, I see only two python2 processes: python2 -m jarabe.main python2 /usr/bin/datastore-service or tell me how I might generate more useful evidence to debug this? Sorry, to all, for the noise

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar 01.00 on a Cubieboard

2014-07-14 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
works nicely on a PC. Regards, Iain On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: dnarvaez, who worked on that packages, is not available. Gonzalo On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: I have Sugar

[Sugar-devel] Debugging Sugar 0.100 on Cubieboard.

2014-07-14 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
in Sugar test. Regards, Iain Brown Douglas [1] http://fedorapeople.org/~lkundrak/a10-images/ [2] http://ur1.ca/hr619 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar 01.00 on a Cubieboard

2014-07-08 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
I have Sugar 0.100 running quite nicely on a Cubieboard as a set top box. I wanted to update Sugar by the method described [1]. Over a period of several days I am getting a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable message from the resource [2]. Regards, Iain Brown Douglas [1] http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Chat Activity Seems Unresponsive

2014-05-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi Nazrul, I can reproduce this on Debian 7, seems very similar to my report: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-October/045261.html One thing has changed since then - (I would estimate since early March 2014) the Sharing icon is now (more accurately) greyed out. Regards Iain

Re: [Sugar-devel] Happy / Sad laptop system load monitor

2014-05-24 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 22:34 -0005, Sebastian Silva wrote: Hi, I remember Sugar as deployed in Dextrose 1 had a signature happy/sad laptop icon and both memory / cpu load

Re: [Sugar-devel] Happy / Sad laptop system load monitor

2014-05-23 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Bender wrote: +1 to something like conky, which is real information instead of pretending to give the kids information. if you want smiley faces, they should have real data behind them. regards. -walter On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i

Re: [Sugar-devel] Small issues with Sugar 0.102

2014-05-22 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 02:34 -0300, Ignacio Rodríguez wrote: About 4751 I remember to have the same problem on first try to port icon_size to pixel_size http://people.sugarlabs.org/ignacio/Without%20IconSize.png I am seeing #4751 and #4673 in osbuild at present (but my osbuild is not error

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

2014-04-14 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 23:07 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 20:54 +, Sam Parkinson wrote: Hi, I think we need to make a really simple tutorial and put it on the wiki home page. Just something with the link to the iso and lots of screenshots :) I might

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

2014-04-08 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 20:54 +, Sam Parkinson wrote: Hi, I think we need to make a really simple tutorial and put it on the wiki home page. Just something with the link to the iso and lots of screenshots :) I might have a go on the weekend. Or maybe we could try to make and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora repository with snapshots from git

2014-01-05 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 02:10 +, Daniel Narvaez wrote: # The short version If you want to try the very latest sugar on Fedora (18, 19 or 20, bothi386 and x86_64), you just need to sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/sugar.repo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora repository with snapshots from git

2014-01-05 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 06:10 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 02:10 +, Daniel Narvaez wrote: If you want to try the very latest sugar on Fedora (18, 19 or 20, bothi386 and x86_64), you just need to sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/sugar.repo http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-12-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 09:46 -0200, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Surely a different issue. You should look at the shell.log file to see if there are any clue about collaboration. I do not perceive where the collaboration error came from. == Just to side line this issue == What

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-12-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
. Collaboration is now seems flaky in general on this machine. Regards Iain Gonzalo On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 21:18 +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote: On 25 November 2013 20:11, Iain Brown Douglas

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-12-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 14:36 +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote: On 20 December 2013 14:29, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 15:59 -0200, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hi Iain, Could you test Write from git https

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-12-19 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
there is no collaboration (id est, no other avatars seen in F1). I do not perceive where the collaboration error came from. Iain Gonzalo On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 21:18 +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote

[Sugar-devel] XO Help 17

2013-12-11 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
I have put a little bit of work updating XO Help last month, as requested in [1] I have also written for Help a page entitled How to edit Help and contribute, which will be available within XO Help 17. Pre release the content is available by this git clone [2] The page contains 6 small

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup/Restore Sugar implementation

2013-12-05 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 21:04 -0200, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Yes. Can be a more extended explanation, there are space. Is better ... Please can you give: Make a safe copy of the content of your journal and Restore a security copy into your journal in your own language? Iain Gonzalo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup/Restore Sugar implementation

2013-12-05 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 10:26 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 06:02:40PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: Maybe: Make a copy of the contents of your Journal. For safety, make a copy of your journal Restore the contents of your Journal. Restore your journal, from your

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Change button text in intro screen

2013-12-04 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 20:42 -0200, Ignacio - SugarLabs wrote: I make a patch for this bug: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2672 This patch proposes: * Change Next (in name screen) to Change color * Change Back (in color screen) to Change name I need approbal of team design, then I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 07:13 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Write 94 starts ok and text can be entered. But no changes are saved. If Write is closed after entering some text, there is no entry in Journal

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 07:13 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Write 94 starts ok and text can be entered. But no changes are saved. If Write is closed after entering some text, there is no entry in Journal

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
of the first instance when you created the object? Thanks Gonzalo On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Write 94 starts ok and text can be entered. But no changes are saved. If Write is closed after entering some text

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trouble saving Write 94 in Fedora 20

2013-11-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 21:18 +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote: On 25 November 2013 20:11, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:35 -0200, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Looks like a crash in abiword when try to open the saved file

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]

2013-11-08 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
and thoroughness of the project. Agreed, but when presented as Sugar_on_a_Set_Top_Box, this is not so unusual. Screwed to the back of a monitor, with power from the monitor, and wifi, the wires can be reduced to zero. Iain Brown Douglas A decent rooted tablet (ie Nexus 7) running Sugar on top

[Sugar-devel] Help 17 and Help Doers Kit

2013-11-03 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Would there be any market for Help Doers Kit, and what should I do next? Iain Brown Douglas aka inkyfingers ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build in Fedora 18

2013-11-01 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:34 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 12:35 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On a PC running Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow), xfce, Write 93 now starts and runs fine. I regret and apologise that this was a false report

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release FotoToon-17

2013-10-29 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
it to json. Gonzalo On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 11:19 -0400, Sugar Labs Activities wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release FotoToon-17

2013-10-28 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 11:19 -0400, Sugar Labs Activities wrote: Sugar Platform: 0.96 - 0.100 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/28804/fototoon-17.xo Testing this on sugar-build on Debian 7 FotoToon fails to start with this log: 1382997097.687926 ERROR root:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build in Fedora 18

2013-10-23 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 12:35 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On a PC running Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow), xfce, Write 93 now starts and runs fine. Thanks Iain ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build

2013-10-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 16:06 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: The Write error looks like the Abiword package do not have introspection support enabled. == Write 93 Fails to start == Anybody else using Ubuntu managed to solve the Write issue? Is Write 93 known to run in any SoaS or PC

[Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build in Fedora 18

2013-10-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Hi, @ Daniel thank you for the big improvement to sugar-build. On a PC running Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow), xfce, 3 days ago, on 17-10-2013, I attempted to build sugar-build from http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html it failed at an early stage. Now it runs well. All

[Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build

2013-10-18 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
I tested sugar-build from http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html on a PC running xubuntu. It installed fine, without reported error. It runs nicely. Very impressed, *thank you all*. I have a problem with a few Activities. My guess is that the cause is that I am not working in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build

2013-10-18 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:29 +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote: On 18 October 2013 17:22, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, Thank you for such a fast response. == N/W == Chat opens, appears to start but cannot tx ... Nothing bad in the log. I suppose you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing sugar-build

2013-10-18 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 00:28 +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote: On 18 October 2013 21:28, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Nothing bad in the log. I suppose you need to make the activity shared and have someone join for it to work

[Sugar-devel] Sweets on Raspberry pi

2012-06-25 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Greetings, I have been experimenting with sweets on a Raspberry pi running a Debian wheezy/sid clone (pisces) from www.raspbian.org and written up my progress so far here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics_ARM_RPi According to top, CPU usage and Memory

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-14 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On 13.06.2012 17:30, Frederick Grose wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com [2] wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de [1] wrote: On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote: Even just in English in Japan

[Sugar-devel] Hardware Requirements

2011-11-21 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
I want to add a paragraph to the wiki on hardware requirements for SoaS. From http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora For Fedora 16 I see: A 400MHz or faster processor At least 768 MB memory (RAM), 1 GB recommended for best performance. Is it relevant to quote this for SoaS? I

[Sugar-devel] Introduction.

2011-11-01 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Greetings, I have dipped into Sugar a number of times in the past. I have a personal interest in introducing creative and productive use of a computer to a new generation ages 3 and 9. I should declare a prejudice against global organisations which produce unhealthy drinks, high saturated fat