Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2014-06-16 Thread John Watlington
Walter, You remember correctly. The hard/clicky/crunchy keyboards are not rated for as long a lifetime as the membrane/chewy keyboards. While the membrane keyboard design was tested to 5 million key presses, IIRC the clicky keyboard is only rated to 1 million key presses. (On the other

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2014-06-16 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:03 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Walter, You remember correctly. The hard/clicky/crunchy keyboards are not rated for as long a lifetime as the membrane/chewy keyboards. While the membrane

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO on Fedora 20 (was Re: [GSoC] Porting To Python3)

2014-05-12 Thread John Watlington
On May 12, 2014, at 7:34 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:08:41AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Probably you already know that, but xo-1 and xo-1.5 have a 8686 wireless card, different to the 8787 in the xo-4 Actually, XO-1 has 8388 and is soldered down card. XO-1:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-31 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 31, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:04 AM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: I just wanted to bump this line of questions as, it is the critical set of questions which will determine the future viability of Sugar. If anyone as more

[Sugar-devel] Thanks

2013-10-31 Thread John Watlington
Since I finally mentioned that OLPC and I had parted ways in an earlier email, I really need to thank the OLPC community for providing me with the opportunity to work with you for the past seven years. Reuben continues to provide outstanding deployment support for all XO laptops, and I will

Re: [Sugar-devel] Multi-touch test activity

2012-11-04 Thread John Watlington
We got a new version of firmware from Neonode last week that improves things a small amount. I'm not sure what the state of the firmware auto-update it. One complication is that it was tuned for the tinted light guides, and doesn't work as well with the clear ones. I have some tinted light

Re: [Sugar-devel] Engadget post on XO Touch

2012-07-26 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/olpc-xo-touch-1-75-to-use-neonode-tech/ The post says as yet unreleased XO 1.75. What's the official status on the 1.75? Still as yet unreleased? It's been shipping for some time now. I don't know where they got

[Sugar-devel] Preferred way to add touch to Sugar apps

2012-01-03 Thread John Watlington
What is the preferred API for adding touchscreen (or mouse) support to a Sugar activity ? Ideally it would support multitouch and provide simple gesture support, but I'll settle for much less :-) Fedora 15 or earlier please, this is for ARM. Cheers, wad

Re: [Sugar-devel] Preferred way to add touch to Sugar apps

2012-01-03 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: What is the preferred API for adding touchscreen (or mouse) support to a Sugar activity ? Ideally it would support multitouch and provide simple gesture support, but I'll settle for much less :-) Fedora 15 or earlier please, this is for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Preferred way to add touch to Sugar apps

2012-01-03 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: What is the preferred API for adding touchscreen (or mouse) support to a Sugar activity ? Should just work. The activity was limited to keyboard input in the past

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reflashing

2011-12-12 Thread John Watlington
The reflashing process on all XO laptops automatically handles bad sectors. On an XO-1, these are identified as red blocks on the screen when reflashing and are automatically skipped. On an XO-1.5 and XO-1.75, the bad sectors are identified and mapped out of use by the controller in the SD/MMC

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread John Watlington
When OS X starts up with a search box open instead of a blank desktop we'll know we are there :) What a nightmare !I'm sorry, but once you move past trivial amounts of information, correctly specifying the search or filtering through the results of a loosely specified search takes forever.