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

[Ajay Garg]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.


I think that is a nice solution, catering to every potential
"problem-facing" activity.




> 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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-- 
Regards,

Ajay Garg
Dextrose Developer
Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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