[sugar] Activity updates in joyride (was Re: TurtleArt-18)

[Walter Bender]

Yeah. I am not sure why rendering and caching SVG is so slow. Anyone
out there have any tips on how to speed it up?

-walter

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 24 Nov 2008, at 13:45, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> I did update the link in w.l.o/go/Activities/All but I actually was
>> hoping for some testing on this rather major intervention before it
>> became the defacto version for G1G1.2. I don't know the wiki magic
>> regarding controlling which version is included in the updates.
>
> Hi Walter, OK understood, sorry for jumping the gun.
>
> I've installed v18 on 3 XOs here all running release 8.2-767, resumed a
> whole bunch of old activities and created a range of new ones from clean.
> All loaded and displayed just fine, though I do note there now seems a very
> long delay on starting or resuming TurtleArt (~20sec or more) where I'm left
> looking at a half drawn toolbar and canvas as TurtleArt sorts it self out
> (pulsing launchwindow has finished).
>
> I erased TurtleArt-18 and used the control panel to 'update' to v10 (that's
> the version G1G1 points to). TurtleArt-10 does also pause momentarily at
> half drawn toolbar and canvas, but it's only for ~2 seconds. So there's
> quite a launch time regression with v18. Rendering/caching all those svg
> tiles?
>
> --Gary
>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, there currently is *no way* to update the wiki with the latest
>>> version of any G1G1 activity *without* affecting the "pegged" version. I
>>> repeatedly pinged the OLPC list but everyone seems to busy to fix the
>>> wiki
>>> (and some of the relevant pages pages are locked).
>>>
>>> The page that 8.2 laptops are updating from is
>>>
>>>      http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2
>>>
>>> As you can see this incorrectly points to the *latest* version of each
>>> activity in the G1G1 set. It should point to the *8.2* version of each
>>> activity. To see the mess, click on the "edit" link of any activity there
>>> and then on "what links here".
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>> On 24.11.2008, at 03:33, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not meaning to pull Walter up on this, but...
>>>>
>>>> Are the Acitivity wiki pages still not getting version updated (yes I
>>>> know it's a complicated undocumented mess of wiki spaghetti that no
>>>> one has bothered telling the community about)? There's a whole bunch
>>>> of activity releases that have floated by the last ~4 weeks or so with
>>>> almost no one tweaking the auto-update pages :-(
>>>>
>>>> --Gary (much looking forward to a useful auto-update feature)
>>>>
>>>> P.S. if it is genuinely too much to fight your way through the wiki
>>>> cruft, please do privately ping me with your activity v update xo
>>>> bundle link + the release it's been tested with. I'll gladly go try
>>>> update/create the relevant wiki pages and insert red hot pokers where
>>>> necessary (genuine, one time offer)... and I'll even test the change
>>>> correctly auto installs on XOs running 767-8.2 (but I can't do joyride
>>>> only stuff, having no access to jhbuilds).
>>>>
>>>> On 23 Nov 2008, at 23:40, Walter Bender wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Announcing TurtleArt 18:
>>>>>
>>>>> .XO:
>>>>> http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/1/1c/TurtleArt-18.xo
>>>>> SOURCE:
>>>>> http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-16.tar.bz2
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Turtle Art has been rebased to use SVG instead of GIF. I made the
>>>>> change in order to make it easier to localize. The other changes
>>>>> include Finnish language support and improved support for varying
>>>>> screen sizes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Localization teams: please review the translations and report any
>>>>> errors or omissions.
>>>>>
>>>>> -walter
>>>>> --
>>>>> Walter Bender
>>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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>> Walter Bender
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