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

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 4 Dec 2012, at 16:07, 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. It would be good to come up with a
> > general solution in any case.
>
> Yes good point, if/when it is ported to GTK3 it should automatically
> inherit this auto scrolling behaviour as seen in the newer builds (working
> but still needs some tuning).
>
> >> 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.
>
> Not sure which rep your working from, but make sure all the eye drawing
> code is correctly drawing in radians, _not_ degrees, for Cairo (easy
> mistake to make):
>
>         http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3901
>
>
Thanks Gary for noting that.

Already applied the degrees --> radians fix into the gtk3 branch.
should be in next (first) gtk3 version.





> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> > 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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