[Sugar-devel] About speak and other activities GTK3/HIG

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Ariel Calzada <ariel.calzada at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We’re working in the GTK3 porting and HIG adjustments of Speak and other
> activities we have observations in both fields.

Thanks for working on this.

>
> HIG/Touchscreen
>
> The main concern is that the OSK hides the interface and doesn’t let the
> textbox be visible for the user. We think that a possible solution should be
> making OSK has an inputbox above that which displays the inserted text, and
> thus the speak interface should be shrinked. But this has to be analyzed
> because should be fixed upstream. As this is transversal to all the
> activities that could have input text.

I thought the plan of record was (at the Sugar toolkit level) to have
the activity window scroll up. It would be good to come up with a
general solution in any case.

>
> GTK3
>
> We have been working in a GTK3 porting of Speak which basically implies
> usage of Gstreamer 1.0
>
> We already have a release version of this porting but it  has many issues.
> One of them is that the activity runs very very slow and the eyes don’t move
> correctly when the mouse is moved. So we have to analyse code performance in
> light of gstreamer and cairo.

Hmm. I've been playing with GST 1 in Turtle and haven't notice a
performance hit.

>
> We would like to get some ideas of what’s happening and if gstreamer 1.0 is
> failing in XO with other activities.
>
> Regards,
>
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