[Sugar-devel] Some activities to fix (or check) for F11-0.88

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Hello Jorge,
>
> I know activities are low-priority now, but when you have time it would
> be good to try to fix these activities with known problems:
>
>
>       com.laptop.Ruler,
>
> The ruler is scaled incorrectly (since Sugar 0.84)
>

Is there a ticket for this? I had not seen this problem. (It has been
suggested that the rule fill the screen, but that is not a scaling
issue. Also, we have no reliable way of determining display resolution
on non-XO hardware, so there is a spinner to let the user set DPI in
such cases.

>
>       com.socialtext.SocialCalcActivity,
>
> This one has startup problems (since Sugar 0.84) due to a hard-coded
> timeout to synchronize the Python part with the JavaScript part. There
> are also bugs in charts. OLPC dropped it from their builds.
>
>
>       org.worldwideworkshop.PollBuilder,
>       org.worldwideworkshop.olpc.JigsawPuzzle,
>       org.worldwideworkshop.olpc.SliderPuzzle,
>
> These are simply untested on 0.88. They might work out of the box. Do we
> want PollBuilder in the default installation of F11-0.88?
>
>
>        org.laptop.AcousticMeasure (aka Distance)
>
> It is said to work badly on the XO-1.5. But did it ever work well? While
> we cannot expect the method used by Distance to yield very accurate
> results, but in the past I've always seen pseudo-random numbers even
> with the X-1.
>
>
>       tv.alterna.Clock
>
> This one does not make much sense until we set the time from ntp (no
> need to test it)
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
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-walter

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