[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS v10 testing and a few minor issues with 0.100

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to test SoaS v10 beta directly on a USB key.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a G1G1 XO-1 computer but XO computers are not easily
>>>>> available for the public at large. So during my demonstrations
>>>>> I prefer to present Sugar on a Stick in parallel with the XO :
>>>>> http://ModLibre.info/en/modlibre/info/demo.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Is is possible to get an iso image
>>>>> which could be installed and tested on a usb key ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or when will it be possible ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's possible now, there's details of where you can get
>>>> the images from in my original email
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-November/003184.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for this information.
>>>
>>> I downloaded « *Fedora-Live-Soas-i686-20-Beta-5.iso* »
>>> from  http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease#desktops
>>>
>>> I used a previous procedure with « tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh »
>>> to prepare a booting 4G USB key.
>>>
>>> All activities were analyzed with rapid tests.
>>>
>>> Nearly everything is OK except for the following points :
>>>
>>> - In "My parameters" there is no icon for "keyboard choice".
>>>   So, it is not possible to get a localized keyboard.
>>>
>>> - The "eToys" activity (version 116) does not start properly
>>>   then displays
>>>   « cannot find image file: squeak, did you run 'inisqueak-m' ? »
>>
>> The eToys developers are basically unresponsive, I'm in two minds
>> whether we even bother to ship it because they can't be bothered doing
>> things like updating to the latest sugar by migrating away from
>> sugar-presence-service/ which was deprecated a long time ago.
>>
>>> - The "Physics" activity (version 11) works well
>>>   BUT stops when we try to displace an object with the little "hand".
>
> I need to work with the maintainer to accept the patches that fix
> this. I can give you a tarball for 11.8 in the meanwhile, if you'd
> like.
>
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/Physics-11.8.xo

Or a patch will do too.

Peter