[IAEP] Sunflower for Science on XO

[Wade Brainerd]

Hi Danny,

Vincent Povrik created a Sugar-specific version of Wine.  The .xo
bundle and other information are available at
http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine.   You could use his bundle as a
starting point for packaging your program.

What toolkit does your software use for its user interface?  I don't
recognize the widgets, but if it's already Windows/Mac I wonder how
hard a true Linux port would be.

Best,
-Wade

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Danny Kodicek
<danny at sunflowerlearning.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I just wanted to write to let people know we've been experimenting with some
> success with getting our Sunflower for Science product
> (www.sunflowerlearning.com) running on an XO. It's a Windows/Mac product but
> I've got it running through SugaredWine and it's looking very promising.
>
> I have a few questions that I wondered if anyone might be able to help with:
>
> 1) Screen resolution
> The biggest problem we have is that the screen res of the XO seems
> unnecessarily high and can't be changed. This leads to two big problems, one
> of readibility (which we can fix with a bit of work) and one of performance.
> Given the low spec of the machines, running full-screen animations, some of
> them in 3d, is pretty hard work for them at that resolution. Does anyone
> have any suggestions for ways to get round this issue? For example, I've
> been thinking about whether we could run the software at half-res and then
> use a screen magnifier app to bring it back to fullscreen
>
> 2) Launching and packaging
> Although SugaredWine is great, it would seem that a more sensible option
> would be to package the software together with Wine as a single activity
> that can be launched directly from a stick or installed as a .xo. Our
> product doesn't have an installer, although it does write to the Registry -
> anyone tried anything like this?
>
> I'm afraid I'm a total Linux novice, so any advice would be welcome, but if
> you could talk to me like a small child that would be very helpful :)
>
> Thanks
> Danny
>
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