Re: [Sugar-devel] Discrepancy regarding an Activity

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/15 Mohit Taneja : > But still there is a difference between contribution and a fork. To have a > fork one needs to have some major prior contribution to the project. I disagree - open source promotes forking. It's fine to do so before having contributed to the project (and forks often happ

[Sugar-devel] sugar branched for 0.86

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I have just created the 'sucrose-0.86' branch in the sugar git repository. Further 0.86 development will happen there, and 0.88 development will happen in master. Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sug

[Sugar-devel] sugar master will depend on simplejson again

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We've found that sugar's recent switch to cjson has caused issues and cjson upstream doesn't seem receptive to fixing them. So the plan is to move back to simplejson on monday, like things were before. Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-dev

[Sugar-devel] Distance broken due to socket already existing

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel Drake
out, tells you that you are several hundred meters apart, then it continues as usual (quickly returning back to realistic distance figures). >From fdfbe2389df10013080e551acc71f5158c152345 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Drake Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:03:43 + Subject: [PATCH] Remove so

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #1447 NORM: Display a message when an activity fails to start

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/21 Wade Brainerd : > Screencast:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLhWEKchVE > > I agree that the new terminology is weird.  My original version said > "Blah failed to start." and the button said "Close". > That made a bit more sense to me since "Stop" implies that something > *has* started

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSM/CDMA Modems support (part II)

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:36 -0500, Martin Abente wrote: > Would a patch that extends the allowed connection types be accepted in the > 0.84 branch (that will be shipped with F11) ? Depends on the patch, but in general one requirement I've been putting on patches for OLPCs 0.84 fork is that the pat

[Sugar-devel] some efforts that would be really useful for deployments

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, After revisiting some of the changes I have made to the software while working on deployments I just wanted to post the list again as a refresher. I have not had enough time to do the appropriate master-level QA on these, or to get them running on the latest Sugar versions. I hope that some p

Re: [Sugar-devel] maintenance of 0.84 branches

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:45 +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > We'll need that they make explicit which modules want to take > maintenance of and then each current maintainer should agree or > disagree. All of glucose, I guess. Right now we only have patches for sugar-toolkit and sugar. Daniel __

Re: [Sugar-devel] maintenance of 0.84 branches

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:53 +, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:45 +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > We'll need that they make explicit which modules want to take > > maintenance of and then each current maintainer should agree or > > disagree. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] libabiword with Nepaly bugs fixed?

2009-11-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:10 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > cannot locate any libabiword-2.6.5-3 -- Did it ever happen? yes, it's in koji Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/li

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 22:16 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > While preparing new 0.88 features, I encountered some in consistence in > "activities vs. activity bundles" case, so I'm going to reveal > "Activity as regular objects"(see [1] ml thread) feature but make it > less invasive in cas

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/30 Walter Bender : > This isn't quite accurate. We've been adding some pre-loaded content > to the Journal for quite some time now, Are you sure? Or are you referring to a manual process that you do in certain deployments? I have yet to see a sugar installation that comes with a non-empty

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/30 Wade Brainerd : > I disagree that showing activities in the Journal, in addition to > activity instances and MIME objects, will cause confusion.  Many > activities are more like content.  Activities can be downloaded, > copied, modified, and deleted.  In Sugar terminology, Activities are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/30 Wade Brainerd : > No, but perhaps we could take this opportunity to reduce this problem... > > When deleting an object from the Journal that is an activity bundle, > we ought to display an alert with a scary icon.  The alert should > clearly state that Journal entries will no longer be a

Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC updates from ASLO

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/12/1 Aleksey Lim : > AFAIK OLPC will use 0.84 release and will lack of native sugar updater > but it could be useful idea to keep activities repository in one place. We are using the sugar control panel applet for activity updates as we have done before. > So, the question is will html page

[Sugar-devel] write compatibility

2009-12-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Gary, Just wondering how much work you think it would be to do a new Write release that supports 0.82 - 0.88 I'm facing a focus-related bug for 0.84 which I think may warrant a new write release, and there is no namespace left in the versioning scheme. Daniel ___

[Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Earlier this year, OLPC began developing a new laptop (XO-1.5) and OLPC OS (based on Fedora 11). Sugar-0.84 was hot off the presses at that time so even though it may feel a little dated today, it's what we've been working with and will soon be shipping in large quantity. One issue that we've

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-0.84.8

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.84.8.tar.bz2 == News == * intro screen doesn't unfreeze dcon #1601 * font configuration through gconf #1584 * Journal list view: jumping back to first page when popping up a palette #1235 * Process non-ds object in

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.84.6

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.84.6.tar.bz2 == News == * font configuration through gconf #1584 * multiple copies of activity opened upon resume #1276 * ObjectChooser displays USB media files, but fails to access file (datastore

[Sugar-devel] Removing Log and Terminal from favorites view

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, For the OLPC builds we're removing Log and Terminal from the default favorites view. Is there any interest in making this change in upstream sugar too? The reasons being that these activities are confusing/useless for young children, but are left discoverable in the list view for older users

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issues with mesh network on XO 1.5

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Mohit, On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 17:48 +0530, Mohit Taneja wrote: > I did a little bit of testing on Mesh network today on XO 1.5. > > I tried connecting XO 1.5, with an XO-1, I was trying to collaborate > the FoodForce2 activity, but it failed. But later i realized that they > were not even able

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issues with mesh network on XO 1.5

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:11 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > For what it is worth, with two XO-1 running 802, and two XO-1.5 running > os54, a network created by one of the os54 units does not show on the > neighbourhood view of the two 802 units, though it does show on the > other os54, and is includ

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issues with mesh network on XO 1.5

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:51 +0530, Mohit Taneja wrote: > Well then, is there a way to connect XO-1 running Sugar 0.82 and an > XO-1.5 ? Yes. Through an infrastructure (BSS) network. Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org h

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.84.7

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.84.7.tar.bz2 Fix bold font style. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.84.7

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 16:04 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:53:38AM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: > >== Source == > > > >http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.84.7.tar.bz2 > > > >Fix bold font s

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-0.84.9

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Drake
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.84.9.tar.bz2 == News == * can't connect to WEP shared key networks #1602 * import translations for ad-hoc networking UI ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to enable activities

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/12/14 Bert Freudenberg : > That's what I had in mind. > > Plus, when you are already in home view, where nobody would normally press F3 > again unless they know this trick, make it switch to list view. While we're on this topic: I included an idea regarding this behaviour in http://wiki.suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 06:07 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > * as a 3rd party developer, I don't see such teachers requests listed > somewhere on wiki, that let me see what can I do and peek most > interesting/suitable-for-my-skils/etc task There's enough going around that you could work on which w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue but since > Fedora F12 the entire i686 platform's userland is being compiled with > -mtune=atom[1] which would use sse[2]. -mtune is designed not to break any compatibility. So -

Re: [Sugar-devel] Cairo performance (was Re: SVG performance)

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a cairo configure option: > > --disable-some-floating-point > Disable certain code paths that rely heavily on > double precision floating-point calculation. Thi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar] [RELEASE] Browse 100

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Simon, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Browse, > > happy birthday! Marco and Tomeu honored you and provided excellent new > features and fixed a very hard one - the download/upload alert issue for > multiple instances! > > Wish you 100 more, >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas snapshot

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/27 Gary C Martin : > Any tips as to what to do with these 2 on an XO? The only thing I've > done with .img and .crc before is copy-nand from firmware – is it > possible to run them from a usb stick without wiping nand or effecting > the existing nand install (so we can encourage safe(er) tes

[Sugar-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, As I noted here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_wishlist#Delete_registration_info we are in a sticky situation where a load of XOs are registered to one XS, which no longer exists. We want to register them to a new one, and we are having to manually go to each laptop and modify the sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] joyride, staging builds, sugar releases

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/12 victor : > Sorry to insist on this, but I have not got it quite yet. > > Joyrides => obsolete (even though the builder script keeps > churning them out and telling the olpc devel list). Obsolete, but not really obsoleted by anything usable *yet*. > staging => what are these? Obsolete to

Re: [Sugar-devel] 'Resume activity' is confusing for user

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/15 Mikus Grinbergs : > I've been very enthusiastic about the OLPC as a way to bring > technological assistance to people without reliable electricity or > on-line servers or much disposable income or even roads. To me, the > combination of rugged low-power (with current Joyride) hardware an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/14 Martin Langhoff : > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> To avoid this situation in future (should we ever run into it again, >> fingers crossed we won't), we are considering a small modification to >> the paraguay OS build which makes th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Michael, 2009/2/24 Michael Stone : > In my view, it's up to the SugarLabs folks to use Rainbow or to drop it. How realistic is it to make rainbow something generic that all environments and applications could use? In an ideal world, such a security system should be available to everyone, not j

[Sugar-devel] 0.82 activity updates

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, In Paraguay we'd like to roll out a new Browse release for sugar 0.82 including this fix: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8857 Could/should I do this officially through the appropriate Browse git branch? I think we already have a problem with overlapping version numbers between the releases for

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.82 activity updates

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/28 David Farning : > With all that being said, the goal for Sugar Labs should be, 'How can > Sugar Labs help you support your local deployment?' I'm perfectly capable of taking care of it locally. My question is not that complicated: can/should I share my work with the larger community? Da

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.82 activity updates

2009-04-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/29 Tomeu Vizoso : > If nobody else is interested, then you probably should use > infrastructure local to .py. OK. If anyone else is interested, here is Browse-101 for 0.82 including the fix for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8857 http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/py-activities/Browse-102.xo As for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing the 'Erase' options from activity righ click menu

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/5/4 : > I basically don't want students to be able to erase any activities. After > our first deployment here in Afghanistan, we had to reinstall a lot of > laptops because students accidentally deleted most of their activities. We see this lots in Paraguay too. We have solved it here by: 1.

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/5/12 Sameer Verma : > Is there a script that will dump all objects from the sugar datastore > to another filesystem (FAT or ext2)? Dragging and dropping objects one > at a time from the journal onto the USB icon is painfully slow. Some scripts we use in paraguay for full backup/restore to XS:

[Sugar-devel] sugar on a website

2009-05-18 Thread Daniel Drake
The great team in paraguay have a new website, based on an interface you might recognise :) http://www.paraguayeduca.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse-101 for 0.82 and XS-0.6 interop

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
. This version was previously > available but hard to find -- Daniel Drake posted a (probably > identical) version recently, but it was missing from the SL's download > facility. > > Now it's there, easy to find, recommended. Thanks! Someone posted my version here: http://wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Browse-101 for 0.82 and XS-0.6 interop

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/5/21 Martin Langhoff : > IIRC, Simon's release also had a patch from Sayamindu. Not sure if > that's in Daniel's version. In any case, both versions have tested > a-ok with the XS :-) Is there anything new in Simon's 101 that has appeared on activities.sugarlabs.org or is it identical to the

Re: [Sugar-devel] disabling "tap to click"

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/5/28 roshan karki : > The problem with gsynaptics is I don't have any section with "synaptic" as > identifier in xorg.conf Yes, the XO ships with the standard PS/2 driver, so the touchpad runs in the PS/2 "emulation" mode. This works but means you don't have control over the more advanced fea

[Sugar-devel] Sugar + OLPC mesh network selection logic

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I'm looking to implement network selection logic in sugar-0.84 using the NetworkManager D-Bus API to implement something similar to what was present in NetworkManager-0.6 for OLPC's mesh device. (the logic is now being moved out of NetworkManager into sugar) My work in progress is: NM-0.7 wit

[Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Eben/other interested victims, I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've designed things) some interfaces that allow for switching between Sugar and GNOME for the XO-1.5 builds. I'm looking for feedback on the design and any suggestions/contributions. By default, laptops boot straight u

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:04 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > This looks great! > > What I don't like though, is the 'switch to sugar' functionality being > available as a button. Wouldn't it be better to keep it as a GDM > session option? Thanks for the feedback. We aren't shipping GDM or similar,

Re: [Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Question for the sugar-web-activities framework developers: > > * With the actual implementation, do we _really_ need webkit2? > > You can say, why? We already decided that! > > I know, but thinking in the following months: > > * If we cont

Re: [Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > >> webkit2 is included in F18 and is in OLPC builds. Has anyone checked >> if it is good enough to run the latest webapp stuff? There may be no >> need to go back to webkit1 if you want to continue on this path. >> > > I can'see webkit2 inst

Re: [Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > >> webkitgtk3 > > > I think that is webkit, no webkit2 How are you coming to that conclusion? I just checked the spec file, webkit2 compilation is enabled, and the lib appears installed as /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-3.0.so.18.0.5 It is not as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Hi there, > I use fedora ARM to build OS for XO1.75. I have recently successfully built > OS12.1.0 using olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini. Now I am in need of preparing a > build with firefox and flashplugin. Is it possible? If yes, what additio

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH Portfolio] Fix position and duration query

2013-05-25 Thread Daniel Drake
The API changed slightly in gstreamer-1.0. This fixes audio recording. --- grecord.py | 10 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Now that we are on gstreamer-1.0 it may be worth revisiting if the "EOS stopped advancing" workaround is needed. I'm suspicious of that code and i

Re: [Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Adding firefox did install firefox but gave following error while trying to > execute on XO: > > $ firefox > Error: Platform version '13.0' is not compatible with > minVersion >= 12.0 > maxVersion <= 12.0 > ---

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to deploy the webactivity libraries

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for starting this thread - it is something that needs to be carefully discussed and considered. Just one comment to add for now: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > ===Include a copy of the library in each webactivity=== > Each activity carries a copy of the librarie

Re: [Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and matching) builds > for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching (so > 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest stable updates > into the build you would have matc

[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Over the last few months I have been slowly developing a much needed field feature, the final piece in the "automatic system upgrade" puzzle. Now I am getting close, I would like to open the formalities... http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Automatic_activity_updates At this point I've it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > Hi, > > we are going to code freeze on Sep 4, and that's when it would also probably > make sense to branch master. Which is a bit later than you would like to > land it. > Though I wonder if we should consider this feature for 0.100 since

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

2013-06-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > Cool. I'd say it's in then... Added a feature page > > https://github.com/sugarlabs/roadmap/issues/9 Thanks for being open to this. The implementation is ready for review. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/11 https://git

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unstable releases

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > we was supposed to release 0.99.0 today but we have not tarballs to ship > because the maintainers have been to busy to deal with that. > > I already brought this up when we came up with the 0.100 roadmap but let me > try again. Assuming we

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unstable releases

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > Thanks. I would appreciate pointers about SoaS development builds. How > frequently they are built, what they are based on (F19/F20) etc. I believe they are built automatically, on an almost-nightly basis, for the current development versi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unstable releases

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > If people are fine with that, I will try to make the 0.99.0 release myself, > automating things a little, with the goal of reducing at a minimum the work > involved. I'm not going to be able to write per module release notes and > such, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundle builder changes broke gtk2 activities

2013-06-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > see this bug for a log > > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4527 > > sugar-activity imports sugar3 stuff, so far that didn't cause gi to be > imported I think, but with Daniel changes that's now the case. I didn't change bundlebuilder and I

[Sugar-devel] [RFC] Content support

2013-06-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Content bundles have long been both a crucial part of the OLPC-Sugar offering, and a pain through having some deficiencies. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection They are important because it is the only easy way for a deployment to add pre-made content to Sugar (e.g. books). The st

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RFC] Content support

2013-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > One of the things that would be needed to fully support content bundles > (which I have experimented with creating), would to be able to host them in > ASLO, it would also be important to clarify the process of deleting a > content bundle, wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bug in Sugar-Emulator

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Ignacio Rodríguez wrote: > Trying to run an activity (Jukebox) in GTK3... > (Os: Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 32bits) You need to update your sugar-toolkit-gtk3 for compatibility with the new pygobject3 version you are running. Daniel _

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RFC] Content support

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > I see. So I agree with you Gonzalo, let's not complicate it. Daniel > patch is good enough. Yes, I like the simplicity as well. I updated my old feature page with the new version to do this 'officially': http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Feat

[Sugar-devel] Sugar fails to launch in rawhide, missing gwebsockets

2013-07-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Sugar-0.99.0 fails to launch in rawhide. jarabe.main imports apisocket which imports gwebsockets. gwebsockets is a new library developed by us (right?) What are the plans for tarballs, packaging, etc for gwebsockets? Thanks Daniel ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Landing the chroot branch

2013-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > I'm planning to merge the chroot branch on master. Though, since it's a > major change, I'm trying to avoid disruption as much as possible. > > As a first step, I'm switch the build infrastructure to use that branch. > > I encourage people t

Re: [Sugar-devel] clipboard error with actual sugar

2013-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Can anybody confirm this? > > In sugar-build (F18), when I want copy a object from the journal to the > clipboard, > using the copy menu in the object palette, nothing is copied in the > clipboard, > and i get the following error in shell.lo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-terminal] Use json instead of simplejson

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Daniel Francis wrote: > This code isn't used at the moment due some regressions with the Vte dynamic > bindings. I know it breaks the buildbot, so I applied it as > 74097db3becc980b68b29b2c51a740934e85adc5 Any chance of this being applied in a new release on

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-terminal] Use json instead of simplejson

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Daniel Francis wrote: >> This code isn't used at the moment due some regressions with the Vte dynamic >> bindings. I know it breaks the bu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-terminal] Use json instead of simplejson

2013-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Probably my mistake. > Tell me if you need a new release. That would be useful, thanks. Daniel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] clipboard error with actual sugar

2013-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > The sugar ticket is http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4483 > > Have links to: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692844 > and > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656312 > > In the first one, requested include the patch in t

Re: [Sugar-devel] debugging weird Activity startup errors

2013-08-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm testing locally a scratch build of Abiword 3 with the intent of having > it in Fedora for F-20 and hence SoaSv10 but I'm getting a near useless error > in the Activity log of: > > Terminated by signal 11, pid 1142 data (None,

[Sugar-devel] sugar-build won't start

2013-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Trying to use sugar-build for the first time in a while on F19. I want to avoid creating a F19 chroot inside a F19 install. prefs.json is: {"use_broot": false, "use_chroot": false} ./osbuild clean git clean -fdx git pull ./osbuild shell Last command fails with: Traceback (most recent call

Re: [Sugar-devel] Are we ready for code freeze?

2013-09-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > I propose we don't freeze and instead we keep releasing 0.99.x every four > weeks, until we feel we have done enough testing and bug fixing. This is not > what you are supposed to do with time based releases but I'd rather delay > than relea

[Sugar-devel] Translating etoys home screen

2013-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Bert, Could you advise on how we could translate the etoys home screen to Armenian? I see: http://forum.world.st/How-to-translate-strings-in-Home-pr-td3527757.html However the crucial "how to translate" link there is broken. The first step in this translation would be to generate a list of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Translating etoys home screen

2013-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > Just a quick question Daniel, > > The Armenian translations are relatively new and may not have been > committed. Are you working directly from the PO files in Pootle or > the EToys repo? The PO files I can manage myself. The translations I'

[Sugar-devel] GeoGebra on 13.2.0

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Has anyone succeeded with the GeoGebra activity on OLPC OS 13.2.0? Using the activity from http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/GeoGebra-5.1.xo Testing on XO-1.75 after "yum install java" The app usually fails to launch, with an exception that seems to change slightly each time. One ex

Re: [Sugar-devel] GeoGebra on 13.2.0

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Has anyone succeeded with the GeoGebra activity on OLPC OS 13.2.0? > > Using the activity from > http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/GeoGebra-5.1.xo > > Testing on XO-1.75 after "yum install java" > &g

[Sugar-devel] KukuAnakula: handle quit event

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We are looking at deploying Kuku Anakula in Nicaragua, thanks for writing this activity. One problem is that the stop button doesn't actually cause the process to terminate. Notably, the music keeps playing and never stops, even though the activity has disappeared. Here's a hack patch to mak

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

2013-11-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was > wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it. Are these keyboards hard/clicky/high-school style, or soft/membrane? Daniel _

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

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron wrote: > If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact > reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing da

Re: [Sugar-devel] Performance: activities start up time

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > One of the arguments of the dynamic bindings was a better startup time due > to not need initialize all the libraries until is needed use them. Then the > import should > be lighter than before. Looks like that is not so true. You should lo

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

2013-11-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Amazingly changing the manufacturing data didn't do the job but changing > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard did. Wow! Now I have Nepali input system. Thank you > all. > > Now I need to find a place to change default locale to ne_NP, so that the >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

2013-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Basanta, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Dear all, > We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new layout > we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply switched the > /usr/share/X11/symbols/np file with a new one but did

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

2014-05-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > On 7 May 2014 01:44, James Cameron wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:24:39PM +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote: >> > [...] And with the XO stuck on Fedora 18 we might not have good >> > enough introspection to make the port compatible with i

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on Write activity: no module named abiword

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Do you have a abiword rpm with introspection enabled? > Hint: we use a custom rpm > > http://harvest.one-education.org/public/au1b-updates/RPMS/abiword-2.9.3-1.git20121011.fc18.olpc12.armv7hl.rpm The error that he's seeing suggests that t

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS vis-a-vis XO-1.0/1.5

2009-12-26 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/12/25 Art Hunkins : > 1) Assumption: SoaS, for a variety of reasons, allows (even encourages) > deployments and individual users to set different basic font sizes. I think this is desired but is not (currently) true. The versions of Sugar that are shipped by SoaS do not have a font configurat

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.84.8

2009-12-28 Thread Daniel Drake
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.84.8.tar.bz2 == News == * set activity font settings earlier #1607 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-0.84.10

2010-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.84.10.tar.bz2 == News == * can't create ad-hoc network when name is 7+ characters #1604 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs

Re: [Sugar-devel] write compatibility

2010-01-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 17:01 +, Gary C Martin wrote: > > I'm facing a focus-related bug for 0.84 which I think may warrant a new > > write release, and there is no namespace left in the versioning scheme. > > I'd be happy to put back in the old sugar toolbars (I've done this > with Moon, Labyri

[Sugar-devel] suggestions for additions to platform page

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Drake
vte (and Python bindings) should be added (Terminal requires this) and it should be noted explicitly that python bindings for csound are required (Pippy and other activities use these) What's the process for making such changes? or am I allowed just to use common sense for once? :) _

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing Log and Terminal from favorites view

2010-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:27 +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > I'm ok with that, but I think that the favorites file in the sugar > tarball should be considered an example, and nothing that packagers > and deployers should accept as-is. OK, pushed. But one thing to be aware of: there is normally a gap b

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Fonts-configuration

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/11 Art Hunkins : > With respect to the proposed UI and "low-hanging fruit": > > The font-configuring code I use in OurMusic-2 strictly adheres to Daniel's > suggestions. > > Basicly, Daniel's suggestion would pick up the proposed UI-set font value > from: >      settings = gtk.settings_get_d

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Fonts-configuration

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/11 Art Hunkins : > My code, given in full below, does this - for XO1/1.5, SoaS Strawberry, SoaS > Blueberry (and hopefully future incarnations of Fedora SoaS), as well as > potential future non-Fedora SoaSes. It works fine and has been tested on > varying systems except for XO1.5 and non-Fed

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Fonts-configuration

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/11 Art Hunkins : > So, is there a way to auto-fill *all size* displays (width-wise) just by > using regular pango functionality and querying for width of screen? Yes. The Memorize activity does almost exactly this -- it renders text to fill a specific tile rather than the whole screen, but

[Sugar-devel] Keep confusion, again

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Drake
I'm back in the field and I'm again seeing the same confusion about Keep: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-July/016375.html The computer-literate people who produce training materials misinterpret "Keep" as "Save" (i.e. if you don't click it your work is lost) and pass on this m

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