Thanks for the suggestions. In the meantime I found that the last session automatically becomes the default so that's cool. I also found that I could change the keyboard at login. So I'm covered here too.
Thanks -- Philippe ------ The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. <Anonymous> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 07:22:20 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 2009/7/15 Philippe Clérié <phili...@gcal.net>: > > I've had both Soas and Sugar on Fedora installed in KVM > > machines. A year ago or so I had problems with the joyride > > builds, so that's progress... :-) > > Joyride builds weren't intended to run on non-XO hardware, so > that's expected. > > > Soas seems to work just fine so far. I have a couple of issues > > with Fedora but I am not sure yet they qualify as bugs. > > > > 1) I need a way to make Sugar the default session. As it is, it > > took me a few minutes to figure out how to get the sessions > > options to show. I don't expect anyone (particularly the > > teachers, kids will adapt to anything!) to enjoy that part. > > Can you expand a bit on this? What you needed to do? Sugar should > be just one more desktop choice and I guess that if there's only > Sugar, it will be the one people log into without needing to > setup anything. > > > 2) I plan to use the french version of sugar. But I'd rather > > have a US International (or variant thereof) keyboard. The > > standard keyboard in Haiti is the US variant. So how do I set > > that up? > > You can change the language from the control panel. About the > keyboard, I don't remember the details but it was discussed > recently in the Sugar mailing lists. Something worth taking into > account is that Sugar uses the same low level mechanisms as other > desktops, so you can see which locale env vars and X commands you > can run in other desktops and chances are they will work as well > in Sugar. > > When searching the archives, take into account that Sugar > development has moved to Sugar Labs: http://lists.sugarlabs.org > > > 3) At least in KVM, Soas makes better use of screen resolution > > than Fedora. How can that be fixed? > > See how SoaS sets the SUGAR_SCALING env var in the (I think) > ~/.Xclients file. This may need to be fixed in Fedora, please > enter a ticket in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you think so. > > > 4) There are going to be a lot of extra, unneeded packages that > > I'd like to get rid of. I hoped that there was a Fedora spin of > > sugar, but it appears that was folded into Soas. But Soas is > > not designed to be installed on a hard disk. Why not? Why not > > give people the ability to setup a computer with sugar as the > > desktop? > > Easier installing to the hard disk is a goal for SoaS v2, but in > the meantime, it should still be possible after installing some > packages. Check out wiki.sugarlabs.org and the mailing lists for > more details. > > Sugar and SoaS are collaborative projects carried by people in > their free time, so your feedback and help are very much > appreciated. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > -- > > > > > > Philippe > > > > ------ > > The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. > > <Anonymous> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel