[Sugar-devel] Running Sugar with sugar-jhbuild - questions

[Sascha Silbe]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:25:26PM +0200, Bastien wrote:

> ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck doesn't advertize the need for
> python-distutils-extra.  Recent bug reports about this:
[...]

I got knocked out by a major infection imported from SugarCamp/Paris. 
About the same time (starting just before SugarCamp) the Gnome people 
hacked heavily on jhbuild and thus broke sugar-jhbuild (*). I'm slowly 
recovering now and started fixing sugar-jhbuild.


> Another problem: sugar-jhbuild still doesn't recognize my keyboard to 
> be AZERTY.
You're probably talking about sugar-emulator and thus Xephyr (sorry if 
it sounds like nitpicking, but it's an important distinction because it 
needs to be fixed in a different module with different maintainers).
This is Xephyr bug #19365 [1] / Sugarlabs bug #342 [2]. It's a major 
problem to several people, but nobody stepped up to fix it yet. It's a 
major change and at least I don't has enough time to do it. Maybe we 
should start collecting money and announce a bounty (**)...

> Is anyone successfully using a non-QWERTY keyboard?
Using somewhat yes (minimal activity testing). Successfully would not be 
the right word for it, though.

> I want to make screencasts but would prefer to fix this before.
Try running sugar as a session i.e. instead of Gnome, not inside Gnome.


(*) The error mentioned above is our fault, though. We added 
sugar-update-control without trying to build it on a pristine system.
(**) With a condition that it has been merged upstream, of course - 
otherwise it would bitrot like the old fix.
[1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19365
[2] http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342

CU Sascha

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