Update Metadata + Screenshots of Activities

[mayankkuthar]

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[vipulgupta2048]

@Gabbar8055 Thanks for the patch.
The summary as described here should give a basic description of the activity. Please fill the appropriate metadata.

[mayankkuthar]

Done!

[vipulgupta2048]

Thanks. Good progress.
@Gabbar8055 Can you tell me how you reproduced the images? I don't understand the small size and the Sugar toolbar missing from the top.
@quozl Can you review further?

[mayankkuthar]

Thanks @vipulgupta2048
I am using Vmware to run sugar on my system and captured screenshots from snipping tool.
The Sugar toolbar do not apper when you run the block party activity thats why its missing from top.

[quozl]

@Gabbar8055, thanks, reviewed. Please fix blurring.

@vipulgupta2048, thanks for mentioning me, I was not watching this repository.

[quozl]

@Gabbar8055, thanks, the blur is reduced.

I've compared against running the activity on Ubuntu 16.04 with Sugar 0.112.

• there's no "Press ESC to exit" message on your screenshots, and I've no idea why; are you using the latest source code from the repository here or a bundle instead? The message was added in 6af29a1.
• there's no initial screen; the one that has "SELECT LEVEL: $(n) enter to start",
• there's a light blue horizontal bar at the top of your screenshots, but it doesn't happen when I run the activity,
• the blur is still there around the edges of the blocks; yours;

mine;

I understand you've finished GCI. I'm happy to take over from here, if you're busy with other things, just let me know.

[rhl-bthr]

Looks like @Gabbar8055 is busy

[tony37]

The one and only version of this activity posted in ASLO is version 7 dated November 6, 2009. On gitHub, the updtated actiivity.info shows version 8 (no date). The latest changes are dated June 27, 2018. GitHub reports two issues: One is to note that the version number on ASLO does not match that on gitHub. The second is to note that sound does not work. Meanwhile #7, not one of the two issues, is reported closed dated 1/18/2019. Meanwhile I ran Block Party version 8 on an XO-1.75 (13.2.9). It indeed has no sound. Further it causes Sugar to crash! The Log activity reports: "(sugar-activity:2591): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:775:7: Missing name of pseudo-class Sound server does not respond g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting." The first message is general in 13.2.9 adding clutter to the logs. The second offers a clue as to the problem with sound. The third is the error that not only breaks Block Party but crashes Sugar. Interestingly, the immediate workaround is Version 7. It works. The log reports obsolete names in activity.info but the problem with sound is not mentioned. Sound worked in Version 7 in 0.82 - 0.96,  so the problem must have been introduced by a change to Sugar. Tony

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On 1/18/19 6:05 AM, James Cameron wrote: Closed #7 <#7>. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAULkmXedG6zmkhK066tn3iZ_XGqI2xBks5vEUgZgaJpZM4ZL8Lp>.

[quozl]

Thanks for testing. None of what you say is relevant to this pull request, which was make-work to update metadata and screenshots as part of yet another attempt to replace ASLO. But it is relevant to issue #4, so I'll link that issue here just to add to the confusion.

Yes, BlockParty-7 does work with the much older OLPC OS builds which were based on earlier Sugar, but the reason it worked was that CSound provided a TCP/IP network server and the activity connected to the server to make sound. Later version of CSound in Fedora, which was adopted by later OLPC OS builds, removed that capability, probably for some unspecified security reason.

In order to remain operational, BlockParty is obliged to use CSound by direct API instead of network. That's what issue #4 is to track.

[tony37]

Thanks for the explanation on the problem with sound in Block Party. I doubt there is any connection between this problem and the one causing Sugar to crash so tracking it with #4 certainly adds to the confusion. In general I see Sugar as the framework which supports the Sugar activities. Aside from the experimental ones, ASLO provides a specific list of activities which Sugar should support. When a new release of Sugar is made, these should be used as a regression test. Block Party 8 is essential because of the loss of GTK2. The continued use of Sugar on Ubuntu 16.04 is a simply avoids the issue. Tony

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On 1/20/19 11:00 PM, James Cameron wrote: Thanks for testing. None of what you say is relevant to this pull request, which was make-work to update metadata and screenshots as part of yet another attempt to replace ASLO. But it is relevant to issue #4 <#4>, so I'll link that issue here just to add to the confusion. Yes, BlockParty-7 does work with the much older OLPC OS builds which were based on earlier Sugar, but the reason it worked was that CSound provided a TCP/IP network server and the activity connected to the server to make sound. Later version of CSound in Fedora, which was adopted by later OLPC OS builds, removed that capability, probably for some unspecified security reason. In order to remain operational, BlockParty is obliged to use CSound by direct API instead of network. That's what issue #4 <#4> is to track. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAULkrG1qi8pERnucJEmCxRHJxpfj_Waks5vFNj2gaJpZM4ZL8Lp>.