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

[Walter Bender]

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

>
> Can you take the log file and send to sugar-devel list.
>
>> - The previous "Jukebox", "Read", "Rule" and "Write" activities
>>   do not appear : is it normal ?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "previous" and "do not appear"
>
>> - NB: "Jukebox.activity" and "Read.activity" are present
>>   in « /usr/share/sugar/activities
>
> Are they in the Activities list? (the icon with lines in the top right
> of the home screen)
>
>> Is there a public list where I can send similar diagnostic files ?
>
> Either the SoaS list or sugar-devel should be fine, both were on the
> original message.
>
> Peter
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regards.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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