[Sugar-devel] Pippy: "save as example" function

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Brian,

Just wanted to ping regarding Pippy (Sucrose release cycles an all).  
I'd like to try and patch the UI to be resolution independent, take  
out some of those magic numbers ;-) apparently this is causing some  
issues for non XO resolution users. If I make a gitorious rep clone  
and fix, are you amenable (if you like the fix) to merging/releasing?  
Just wanted to check how tight your time availability is for this  
before I dive in.

Regards,
--Gary

On 6 Sep 2009, at 18:38, Brian Jordan wrote:

> Hi Gabriel,
>
> I like this!  I will give it a test and commit it soon.  Did you all
> have a chance to test out the Pippy version 35 that Ben Schwartz put
> together, with Groupthink-enabled collaboration?
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4041  If we can find
> a good jabber server, I'd love to have a global programming session
> one of these days :)
>
> More generally, re: pippy maintenance, I apologize for being rather
> slow with testing and committing new patches and branches lately. I am
> planning to devote some time to pushing this change and committing /
> fixing some library and python version issues with GASP-integration in
> pippy soon!
>
> As usual, if anyone would like to have commit access to pippy
> repository mainline, let me know your gitorious username!
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/pippy
>
> Best,
> Brian
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Gabriel Eirea<geirea at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> During yesterday's ceibalJAM! a group of volunteers worked on
>> improvements for Pippy. We had three main requests:
>>
>> 1) code comments in the examples are in English and not pootle- 
>> translatable
>> 2) there is a need for more examples to awaken kids' curiosity
>> 3) saving code in the journal is not very useful because built-in
>> examples are shown in a treelist and more readily available
>>
>> For 3) I'm sending a patch (diff  against Pippy version 34) that adds
>> the "save as Pippy example" option and shows custom examples in the
>> treelist. The trick is to use the $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data directory
>> as a persistent repository for these files and show them in a  
>> separate
>> category "My examples". This is complementary to the "save in the
>> journal" functionality that can be used mainly for sharing code with
>> others.
>>
>> For 2) we have new examples to contribute, we still need to compile
>> them and translate some parts.
>>
>> For 1) the plan is to add localisation subdirectories in the data
>> directory where built-in examples are located. If the directory
>> exists, then examples are taken from there and not the english ones.
>> The disadvantage is that they will still not be pootle-translatable  
>> so
>> examples need to be sent upstream to be included in the bundle.
>>
>> We will welcome any thoughts.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
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