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[Derek O'Connell <doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Amos,

starting Thursday I will be getting back up to speed on sound issues on
Linux and the XO. Hope to get something for that next release of Ubuntu.

Btw, last night I came across a Scratch image that is almost a year old
to the day and in which I had migrated DBus classes to. Worryingly I
don't even remember doing it :-S Anyway just had a quick hack-about to
see I could get it working. Tried "DBusConnection example" and
eventually got the following output which looks promising. I know this
is not your thing but included in case anyone else is interested.

--- Begin dbus queue processing ---
Received message: DBusMessageSignal(2)[/org/freedesktop/DBus
org.freedesktop.DBus.NameAcquired(':1.1', )]
Received message: DBusMessageSignal(3)[/org/freedesktop/DBus
org.freedesktop.DBus.NameAcquired('org.squeak.dbus.example', )]

-D

On 01/02/2010 22:31, Amos Blanton wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Lucid Lynx, the next version of Scratch, will be on feature freeze Feb. 18.
> So we'd like to submit a package to be included in it, ready or not, before
> that date. (We can hopefully submit fixes after that date, but the process
> gets trickier). Mako has agreed to sponsor it. He suggested, however, that
> we submit a version of the package that depends on the squeak-vm in the
> ubuntu repositories (1.3.9.8-3ubuntu3)instead of including its own VM (3.10
> - 4 beta #1 dated Feb. 2009), which is how we've done it so far.
>
> It's easy to switch to using the Squeak-vm from the ubuntu repositories, but
> it introduces a new bug when Scratch is run under Compiz. It causes the
> Scratch cat and other sprites to be "see through" ( see attached image )
> Note that it's possible to see text on windows underneath the Scratch window
> through the representations of the icons - but not clearly. Kind of an
> interesting bug!
>
> So it seems likely this might be caused by the VM - but I thought I'd check
> with you to see if maybe there is a workaround, or some solution that could
> be implemented in Scratch. If not, can we ask someone to submit a newer
> version of the VM for inclusion in the Ubuntu repositories?
>
> -Amos
>
>