[self-interest] [Ann] Self 4.4 Beta 1

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Hi, it works fine if I login with xterm instead of Gnome...

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Hernan Wilkinson <
hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, no problem.
> It is 64 bit, keyboard Spanish or LatinAmerican (either does not work)
> It happened the three times I run it, but I did not try to reboot, I'll let
> you know about it
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> It sounds like the same problem, doesn't it!
>>
>> We should try to fix this, because Gnome on Ubuntu 9.10 is a really common
>> setup...
>>
>> Let's try some triage - from your emails it seems as if the problem occurs
>> on:
>>
>> - Ubuntu 9.10
>> - on Gnome not KDE
>>
>> Can you and Hernan let me know:
>>
>> - are you on 32 or 64bit
>> - what is your keyboard layout (ie US or something else?)
>> - does it always happen?
>> - does rebooting help?
>>
>> Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to fix until I can reproduce it myself.
>>
>> Cheers, Russell
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 11/03/2010, at 2:19 AM, Liam2 wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>   I had the same problem too. If you log in to KDE instead (or anything
>> but GNOME) it works fine.
>>
>> Liam
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 10/3/10, Hernan Wilkinson <hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com>*wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Hernan Wilkinson <hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [self-interest] [Ann] Self 4.4 Beta 1
>> To: self-interest at yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Wednesday, 10 March, 2010, 11:33
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Russell
>>  this is great! we have been using and showing self for more than a decade
>> now at the University of Buenos Aires and seeing this progress is great...
>> also, having the Smalltalk implementation in the Demo.snap is wonderful for
>> teaching, those are the things that blows student minds!
>>  BTW, in my Linux machine, the keyboard is not working... I have Ubuntu
>> 9.10 64 bits. For example, in an outliner of the Shell, if I press some
>> letters nothing happens, if I press s, it saves an snapshot, if I press n,
>> it show "senders of nothing"...., it sounds it is not taking focus, is this
>> a known bug or should I configure something to make it work correctly?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Russell Allen <mail at russell- allen.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I've released Self 4.4 Beta 1.
>>>
>>> Download VM installers for MacOS X and Linux and Clean and Demo snapshots
>>> from: http://selflanguage .org/download/<http://selflanguage.org/download/>
>>>
>>> Barring minor fixes, I will reissue this release as Self 4.4 at the start
>>> of April.  The proper description of Self 4.4 is a revived Self running on
>>> Mac OS X and Linux x86 and ready as a base for new functionality.
>>>
>>> Self 4.4 will be the first Self release since Self 4.3 which was released
>>> in June 2006.  In future we will attempt a slightly faster turnaround :)
>>>
>>> Please post bugs to the Self bugtracker at http://self. lighthouseapp.
>>> com <http://self.lighthouseapp.com/> and to this mailing list.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Russell
>>>
>>> ------------ --------
>>>
>>> Since Alpha 2 we have changed (this is a quick dump from commit
>>> messages):
>>>
>>>    - Changes to SelfDroplet to ensure proper registration of filetype
>>>    - Minor changes to website
>>>    - Fix for bug ticket #3 - Compressed snapshots now work on Linux
>>>    - Fix to UI1 text editing and small improvement to error handling
>>>    - Fix for bug ticket #2 - Self will now compile on Ubuntu
>>>    - Fix for bug ticket #1 - Linux: Display will now reopen after saving
>>>    world in new snapshot
>>>    - Added -Wno-write-strings flag to GCC compile
>>>    - Initial copy of Self Handbook (incorporates existing manuals in RST
>>>    for Sphinx)
>>>    - Changes for Snow Leopard
>>>    - Add a nice icon for the Dock in MacOS X
>>>    - Removed some binaries from the git repository, split sortedList out
>>>    of the list module.
>>>    - Fix colorsFor: in 'traits ui2Image' to account for mapped or
>>>    unmapped
>>>    - Add PNG support and fix JPG/GIF support in webBrowser
>>>    - Changed flag to be "-headless" to start image without ui2
>>>    - Added Chris Double as an AUTHOR
>>>    - Make webBrowser send Host: header
>>>    - Add linux build files to .gitignore
>>>    - Set the module for linux socketConstants
>>>    - Added value:With:With: With:With: With:With: .
>>>    - Get builds working under Arch Linux
>>>    - Add a socketConstants slot for os_file under linux
>>>    - Fix sockets under Linux
>>>    - Clarification of copyright AUTHORS to include Sun and Stanford
>>>    University
>>>    - Split mirrorProgramming from mirror, so that Klein won't need to
>>>    file it in.
>>>    - Added blockTests.self.
>>>    - Clean up and clarification of copyright terms
>>>    - Source tree cleanup
>>>    - Fixes to UI1
>>>    - Starting to refactor the tests to make it easier to use them in
>>>    Klein.
>>>    - Also refactored the slotFinder to be iterative instead of
>>>    recursive.
>>>    - Made the javaServer stuff file in OK (sort of, I think). It still
>>>    needs to be filed in from the terminal, without the Self desktop running.
>>>    - Updated website to Sphinx 0.6.1 and added links to blog
>>>    - Fixed a typo in some comments, added max: and min: methods to the
>>>    ordered mixin.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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