[sugar] Activity testing on current 8.2 build 759

Gary C Martin gary at garycmartin.com
Wed Sep 10 12:24:01 EDT 2008


On 9 Sep 2008, at 21:07, Morgan Collett wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 18:11, Sayamindu Dasgupta  
> <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:18:29AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ==============================
>>>>
>>>> Paint-20
>>>> Could start? Yes
>>>> Could stop? Yes
>>>> Sound: N/A
>>>> Activity resume: Useful state is restored
>>>>
>>>> Note: Very laggy when you try to draw, perhaps 1 to 2 seconds  
>>>> behind
>>>> mouse movement! Currently quite unusable on XO hardware.
>>>>
>>>> ==============================
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've noticed this on 2263.  Perhaps it's a result of mouse driver
>>> changes?
>>>
>>> Erik
>>
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8285
>> I added a few workarounds to make it usable. Morgan will probably  
>> make
>> a new release (v21) soon with those patches. Once that is out, please
>> provide feedback on how it works.
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>
> Paint-22 has both of Sayamindu's patches for this, and is definitely  
> better.

Wow, absolutely! Just retested Paint-22 on an XO with 8.2-759 and it's  
a whole world of difference. Control actually now feels more  
responsive than in previous release builds. Really good fix :-)

--Gary


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