[Etoys] A new experimental version of OLPC image for non-XO environments

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Feb 25 16:29:41 EST 2008


On Feb 25, 2008, at 22:13 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>> - set encoding to UTF-8
>> - provide a sensible SQUEAK_SECUREDIR (~/.etoys?) and SQUEAK_USERDIR
>> (~/Etoys?).
>
>   Ok.
>
>> Besides, don't we want to add the browser plugin? And how about
>> supporting a system-wide installation?
>
>   That would be good.  We should test the file structure for it
> so that we can make installers.
>
>> Same goes for Windows and Mac, btw. Isn't it time Etoys becomes a
>> "real" application? I mean, no fiddling with images and dropping
>> things onto executables etc. Just double-click and go, saving to a
>> sensible place in the user's documents.
>
>   With an installer, we can do what we used to do with the previous
> version.  But the location of the document can be under the user
> documents folder, yes.

Well, on the Mac the Right Thing would be a single .app icon (like  
Plopp or Sophie).

- Bert -




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