[SoaS] Sugar on Fedora 31

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 09:53:31AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:00 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks.  Tested on the OLPC Infinity and also QEMU.  No great
> > surprises.  Seems ready for release.  Summary of observations;
> >
> > - it's Sugar 0.114, obsolete now,
> 
> Yes, but pre beta when I had to deal with the release it was the
> latest and greatest ;-)
> 
> > - default microphone level is really low,
> 
> Is that on specific HW or in general?

QEMU KVM and the One Education Infinity laptop.

> > - the Moon activity is surprisingly and repeatedly sluggish to start,
> >   leaving two blank rectangles on screen, with no useful log output;
> >   it's a JavaScript activity, and that may be significant,
> 
> Changes it webkitgtk maybe?

Don't know.

> > - the Write activity has the severe AbiWord flicker problem reported
> >   in 2016, fixed upstream by AbiWord in June 2018; but I guess it
> >   hasn't made it into Fedora 31 yet,
> 
> I've not seen a new upstream release, do you have a link to the
> required patch(s) by chance?

It's a mess.  I fixed it for X11.  Martin Sevior fixed it again for
Wayland.  We use X11 in SoaS.  Here's some references;

1.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287835

2.  https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

3.  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1574278

4.  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/abiword/blob/master/debian/patches/fix-flickering.patch

> > - wireless scan results disappear from the network view totally, then
> >   if you disconnect from ad-hoc they come back again,
> 
> Weird, I'm guessing this is card specific but I'm just guessing.

Same card with other distributions is unaffected.  I'm inclined to
suspect systemd or Network Manager.

> > - collaboration does not work; as tested with Chat activity, which may
> >   relate to sugar-toolkit-gtk3:88ea8e1 and other collaboration fixes
> >   that have made it into Sugar 0.116.
> 
> telepathy also needs to be fixed, it was failure to build and had to
> be rescued, Alex took over those packages, with me sponsoring him and
> said he would fix them pre-beta and I've since had radio silence
> since. This has other implications because I will need assistance in
> the move to python3 from a packaging PoV as I really don't have the
> time any more to do this all on my own.

Yeah, me too.

> Peter
> 
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:10:08AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Just a reminder we're in final freeze for Fedora 31, I'm assuming
> > > people are testing it.
> > >
> > > Just a reminder you can get the latest nightly composes here:
> > > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-Fedora-31/compose/Spins/x86_64/iso/
> > > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-Fedora-31/compose/Spins/armhfp/images/
> > >
> > > We have slipped a week so if there's fixes needed we basically need
> > > them by Monday.
> > >
> > > Peter
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> >
> > --
> > James Cameron
> > http://quozl.netrek.org/

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