[IAEP] Fwd: [Sur] Labyrinth 6

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Sat May 9 04:33:48 EDT 2009


Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 8 May 2009, at 16:35, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> 
>> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:44, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>>>> Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>>>> On 17 Apr 2009, at 08:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Congratulations to Gary and Aleksey.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paola is a teacher from .uy and has already tried the new version of
>>>>>>> Labyrinth and written a small tutorial about how to create mind maps
>>>>>>> with it, see link in the forwarded email below.
>>>>>> Thanks Tomeu, very open to feedback (have a long list myself 
>>>>>> also), so
>>>>>> please do feel free bounce any feedback you see my way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> -Gary
>>>>> Hi Gary,
>>>>>
>>>>> awesome work - of course a big thank to Aleksey as well. Had fun
>>>>> creating a map with Labyrinth today - some thoughts:
>>>>>
>>>>> - zooming shortcuts: In Browse we use (ctrl++ and ctrl+-) for zoom in
>>>>> and zoom out. Write does the same. Not sure what Read does - at least
>>>>> ctrl++ does not work. Would be cool to settle on some short cuts. 
>>>>> (Btw:
>>>>> the wheel on a mouse does work as well for zooming)
>>>>>
>>>>> - zoom: is there a way that when I zoomed in, that I move to another
>>>>> area of the canvas? (hope it is clear what I mean here)
>>>>>
>>>>> - scaling of images: when an image is scaled moving it does take very
>>>>> very long - I guess it is re-rendered
>>>>>
>>>>> - translations: is labyrinth up in pootle?
>>>> Just seen that this is already the case - and that we have the German
>>>> translations even done already. Maybe we can do a release with the
>>>> translations? Is the translation team aware that Labyrinth is ready to
>>>> be translated? No spanish translation yet - as of today. I guess the
>>>> teacher from Uruguay who has been doing the tutorial will have it done
>>>> in 5 minutes ;)
>>> Sounds like a good idea. Could someone who is in this list and also in
>>> olpc-sur ask there for a translation?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tomeu
>>
>> Yeah that would be awesome. Otherwise I would have to write me a 
>> Translate-Activity to write the request myself :)
>>
>> BTW, a teacher request for the labyrinth activity: Can I print that 
>> out? Would be cool to be able to export the diagram to pdf or a png 
>> (not only handy for printing).
> 
> Yep, both pdf and png export are on my todo list :-) Original labyrinth 
> code already had both, so I just need to wire up the Keep button to have 
> the two new menu entries and do some testing (I don't want to clutter 
> the UI with export cruft).
> 
> Regards,
> --Gary

Awesome! Yes, the keep button-submenu solution sounds absolutely fine.

Keep up the great work,
    Simon


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