<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">I have just learned python, and I want to try my hand at building something small or making some small changes and contributions to this project.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">So, I went through the documentation and got Sugar installed on the latest Ubuntu.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">I tried out the IRC activity app, and I noticed a few hiccups with it. Firstly, of all, it attempts to join the irc network a few times incorrectly and fails. As it is connecting, it attempts to join the channel when it isn't fully connected yet too. Also, when the irc motd messages and notices are being spewed out at the beginning, the window does not auto scroll down when content is added.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">When it does connect to the channel, the names are duplicated in the user listbox to the side.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Also, the connection does not persist when you leave the application. Is this an intended feature of sugar? Are you not allowed to persist windows and connections?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">I thought that perhaps I could modify the source code and try and learn sugar and python GTK by fixing these small issues that I noticed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">I was thinking how I could go about doing this?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Do I just pull down the github source and compile and bundle it each time to test it, or do I separate out the GTK bits and get that working first before I add the sugar extensions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">I read the online book by James and it was quite informative.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Andrew.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000ff"><br></div></div>