Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-15 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Aug 2012, at 20:14, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Gary Martin > wrote: >> Hi Anish, >> >> I've uploaded a mockup image to the wiki [1] which covers most of the items >> raised in this thread: >> >> - a new security section (that should only be shown if there

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Gary Martin wrote: > Hi Anish, > > I've uploaded a mockup image to the wiki [1] which covers most of the items > raised in this thread: > > - a new security section (that should only be shown if there is lease > information) > - lease number of days remaining >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-12 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi Gary, On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Gary Martin wrote: > Hi Anish, > > I've uploaded a mockup image to the wiki [1] which covers most of the items > raised in this thread: > > - a new security section (that should only be shown if there is lease > information) > - lease number of days r

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-12 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, the mockup covers my desire for the lease data not being part of identity. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-12 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Anish, I've uploaded a mockup image to the wiki [1] which covers most of the items raised in this thread: - a new security section (that should only be shown if there is lease information) - lease number of days remaining - lease absolute expiry date (date string should use correct format

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: >> Why is the proposal to show the number of days remaining? >> > > Yes, I remember discussing specifically this with Roberto (PyEduca > Technical head) back in Dec 2010, and my suggestion was exactly the > same (to display the date). > > Howev

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-07 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, Thanks for replying! On Tuesday 07 August 2012 10:12 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Anish Mangal > wrote: >> One problem they were also trying to get around in Paraguay is >> that during vacations, the kids don'

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > One problem they were also trying to get around in Paraguay is that > during vacations, the kids don't go to the schools and hence the > leases expire. If the kids also know about this information, then they > can easily make sure that they don

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 Aug 2012, at 12:50, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: >> >> > > On this point, the code seems to not behave you describe >> above. Testing on an XO-1, the DX3 build 143 International, I see >> an item in the Identity section saying "Lease: Not available". The >> wording "Not av

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-02 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
> > > > On this point, the code seems to not behave you describe above. > Testing on an XO-1, the DX3 build 143 International, I see an item in the > Identity section saying "Lease: Not available". The wording "Not available" > suggests something is missing from my XO when actually this machine doe

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:55:23AM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: > Your probably right. IIRC the idea was to make that information > visible alongside the Serial Number. And what I'm saying is that the lease expiry does in no way identify a system, so it should not be in a section with a title "Ident

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 August 2012 04:30 AM, Gary Martin wrote: > On 1 Aug 2012, at 20:25, Anish Mangal wrote: > >> > On Friday 20 July 2012 04:05 AM, James Cameron wrote: > >>> I don't think it should be in a section titled "Identity", because it > >>> isn'

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread Gary Martin
On 1 Aug 2012, at 20:25, Anish Mangal wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 20 July 2012 04:05 AM, James Cameron wrote: >> I don't think it should be in a section titled "Identity", because it >> isn't an identifier, and is only related to serial number becaus

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread Ian MacArthur
On 1 Aug 2012, at 20:14, Anish Mangal wrote: > On Thursday 19 July 2012 08:26 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: >> Personally I think this would be a reasonable feature. But prior >> to this discussion I have never heard of the word "expiry" before. >> >> In US English the synonym "expiration" tends

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 July 2012 04:05 AM, James Cameron wrote: > I don't think it should be in a section titled "Identity", because it > isn't an identifier, and is only related to serial number because of > implementation details. Your probably right. IIRC t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 July 2012 08:26 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > Personally I think this would be a reasonable feature. But prior > to this discussion I have never heard of the word "expiry" before. > > In US English the synonym "expiration" tends to be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-08-01 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 July 2012 10:46 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Anish Mangal > wrote: >> I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in >> the 0.98 cycle. >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Lea

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the > 0.98 cycle. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Lease_Information_Display > > This feature is valuable for support staff in deployments which use > OLPC's security

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-07-19 Thread James Cameron
I don't think it should be in a section titled "Identity", because it isn't an identifier, and is only related to serial number because of implementation details. I don't wish to constrain your creativity by saying how to fix that though. I'm sure you can imagine many alternatives. -- James Cam

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-07-19 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Personally I think this would be a reasonable feature. But prior to this discussion I have never heard of the word "expiry" before. In US English the synonym "expiration" tends to be used much more often. I do not know what the preferred international form is. --- SJG On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-07-19 Thread Rafael Ortiz
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the > 0.98 cycle. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Lease_Information_Display > > This feature, which has bee

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

2012-07-18 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the 0.98 cycle. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Lease_Information_Display This feature, which has been tested to work on 0.94 based dextrose-3 builds, displays information r