[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

[Ton van Overbeek]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:28:09AM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> >> Nod, I've done that for Memorize and maybe we will for Paint too.  It will
>> >> take some thought to get it right and I've got a lot on my plate right now.
>> >> Worth it if it turns into code but right now I'm wondering what is the best
>> >> path forward? Sugarizing Tux, Improving Paint or adding features to Colors?
>> >> It mostly depends on what programmers out there are interested.
>> >
>> > If Tuxpaint satisfies all needs and new features list for Paint and
>> > Colors! is not short, I guess its much easier to add save-to-journal
>> > feature to Tuxpaint.
>> >
>> I am in occasional contact with Bill Kendrick the lead developer for
>> tuxpaint.  I try to reach out to him and the rest of the tuxpaint team
>> to work more closely with Sugar Labs.
>
> The save-to-journal feature shouldn't be a problem(since this will be
> local change in Tuxpaint's code).
>
> The relly hard problem is sharing mode in Tuxpaint.
>
> There is a ticket for this reason - #887
>
> --
> Aleksey

As someone who has hacked on Albert Cahalan's original XO-1 port of Tuxpaint
(see the tuxpaint entry on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All)
I'd be glad to help
with further sugarizing tuxpaint.
What I did was to adapt it to the rainbow requirements for the XO-1 (store
data in the right directories, etc.) and proper startup from the ring.
No integration with the journal or implementation of sharing.

Note that a full installation of tuxpaint is very big, due to all the
examples and translations. Probably too big for a 1G stick SoaS.

Aleksey, what are your ideas about integration with the journal? Provide
a python glue layer? Or implement it directly in C?

Anyway, let me know what I can do.

Ton van Overbeek