[Sugar-devel] Gears and random thoughts

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to add them to ASLO and to tag them as such?
>

+1
> Can they be localized on Pootle?
>
> Does localizing htem introduce a CLDR locale dependency?
>
> cjl
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Suraj K S <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brilliant work Manuel!
>>
>> Would be nice if we could put all the web activities we've made so far,
>> together in one place.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9 August 2013 19:45, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've made an activity out of gearsket.ch .  This is a present for our
>>> friend Paul Fox, who pointed me to that excellent app.  Thanks Paul!
>>>
>>> http://manuq.github.io/gears-activity/
>>>
>>> I contacted the developer and started sending pull-requests to make
>>> GearSketch a lib we could use, and I've been also improving the icons.
>>>
>>> It works great in a touchable device.  For touch support it uses
>>> hammer.js .  So this is another option to handle for globally adding
>>> touch in sugar-web.  In previous email I've mentioned pointer.js,
>>> which abstracts input events (mouse, touchscreen, pen tablet) like
>>> latest IE does.
>>>
>>> The help inside the app is great.  It brings a demo mode, which
>>> directly shows you what can be done.  It is similar to the one found
>>> in Implode activity.  I wish we can do that as a global solution for
>>> help in web activities.
>>>
>>> It is written in coffeescript, and after playing for a bit, I can see
>>> it as a possible choice for activity developers.  Its syntax sugar
>>> makes the code look more like the gtk activities written in python.
>>>
>>> One of the reasons we went for plain js for sugar-web was because of
>>> the View Source feature.  Well, seems that since I researched a few
>>> months ago, Source Maps has improved a lot, and I can see coffee code
>>> in the web inspector. If the code breaks or if I add a breakpoint, for
>>> example.  Nice!  Also, GitHub does a nice job displaying only the
>>> coffee changes, and hidding the JS changes by default:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/frankleenaars/gearsketch/pull/6/files
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> --
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