[Sugar-devel] Colors! Activity status

[chm]

On 12/31/2010 2:45 PM, chm wrote:
> On 12/23/2010 9:57 PM, chm wrote:
>> On 12/23/2010 6:41 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:11 PM, chm wrote:
>> >
>> > Great. I have an idea, how about we apply for a OLPC
>> > developers program project with "get Wacom tablets
>> > and Colors! working on XO 1.5"? I have a number of
>> > activities I haven't checked on XO 1.5 yet and you've
>> > been really helpful in testing so far, so I bet OLPC
>> > will be willing to send us a couple.
>
> How do we start the process to join the OLPC
> developers program? Here is a list of Colors!
> features I would like to see working on XO-1
> and XO-1.5 platforms:
>
> (1) wacom tablet support and investigate support
> for other tablet brands

     Good news here.  It looks like the various
     tablets use the XInput to talk to the software.
     That means whatever we do should be applicable
     to other tablets with XInput support (regardless
     of brand or model).

> (2) working videopaint mode os 10.1.3+
>
> (3) improved collaboration support such as
>
> (a) fix color change problem
> (b) performance improvements to
> support larger common drawings
> (think class solar system project
> where each student could work on
> a separate planet/moon/...)
> (c) save as image
> (d) save as drw-ing
> (e) save as movie
>
> BTW, I just got a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch for
> $100 and it works with the linuxwacom driver for
> later versions (not the one I sent you).
>
> Once 10.1.3 is released, I plan to to a clean
> build of the linuxwacom driver for a formal
> release of Colors! to support it. This will
> include what is needed to install in the base
> release to build/develop Colors! or wacome
> related software.
>
> I have two nieces with XO-1 and wacom tablets
> so user feedback from that is already coming.
> For me to test, I would need 2 XO-1.5's so that
> the XO-1.5 to XO-1.5 collaboration could be
> evaluated.
>
> Do you have an XO-1.5 already? What do you
> think you would need as far as laptop hardware
> support?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris