Fwd: Tux Type on the XO

[Cynthia Solomon]

Hi All,
Please respond to David Bruce on the following issues.
Thanks,
--Cynthia






Begin forwarded message:

> From: "David Bruce" <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>
> Date: August 11, 2008 11:35:43 AM EDT
> To: seth at laptop.org
> Cc: "Cynthia Solomon" <cynthia at media.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: Tux Type on the XO
>
> Hello Cynthia and Seth,
>
> Over the weekend I installed all the needed tools and libs with yum,  
> and successfully built and installed our current, unmodified release  
> ofTtuxtype on the XO.  It runs just like on any other platform,  
> except that it can't get a 640x480 fullscreen, so it runs in a  
> 640x480 box centered in the normal-resolution screen.
>
>
> So - I'm ready to start modifying Tuxtype itself.  I have a few  
> questions regarding what you would like to see:
>
> 1.  Are the lib requirements a problem?  Tuxtype uses SDL,  
> SDL_mixer, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, and SDL_Pango (which depends on some  
> other libs).  All of these were easily installed with yum, but they  
> do take up some space.  fwiw, they are a subset of the libs needed  
> for Tuxpaint, so if Tuxpaint is being considered as a standard app,  
> it will bring in everything Tuxtype needs (the same is true for  
> Tuxmath, btw).
>
> 2.  Regarding Tuxtype itself, what needs to be improved to get it to  
> meet the needs of OLPC?  My own sense is that there are two obvious  
> issues to be addressed.
>
> First, Tuxtype needs to use fullscreen at the machine's normal  
> resolution - the 640x480 box is just too small on the XO's small  
> monitor.  This is something we have been meaning to address anyway,  
> and we have done so already for Tuxmath, so the issues are known.
>
> Second, we need to use standard GNU gettext for i18n.  Currently,  
> Tuxtype supports i18n via language-specific "themes" with its own  
> home-brewed gettext.  It does not use the standard locales  
> mechanism.  The player selects the language to use within the  
> program.  This is also something that has been "on the agenda" for  
> some time.
>
> Neither of these issues is exactly trivial, but they aren't  
> prohibative, either.
>
> 3.  Am I supposed to be "sugarizing" Tuxtype in some way?  For now,  
> I just launch it from the command line (which also requires adding / 
> usr/local/bin to $PATH, unless there is some other location where  
> programs are supposed to be installed).
>
> Regards,
>
> David Bruce
>
>
>

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