[Sugar-devel] TamTamMini

[David Farning]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Flavio Danesse
<fdanesse at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> I wanted to inform maintainers TamTam :
>
> These last few days I've added a little love to TamTamMini.
>
> This is an application that has been added Ceibal instruments and small
> arrangements over the years, but for various reasons, changes were never
> implemented in the official repository, so that at the launch of each
> version, I was obliged back to modify the application to meet the
> specifications of Ceibal.
>
> To not have to continue with that methodology, I spent several days to fix,
> clean and improve implementation.
>
> The work done was as follows:

Over the past couple of weeks, I have asked some hard questions about
the future of Sugar. Lionel responded with an awesome and
inspirational web activities prototype.

In addition to that type of innovation, I allege that additional
deployment feedback is necessary to make sure that what we offer is
what deployments need.

This work by Flavio exemplifies those needs.

> TamTamMini separated from other Suite applications, deleting files that were
> not used.
> I deleted the images were not used or those that were not necessary.
> Corrected, I simplified and cleaned up the code.
>
> As a result , the application occupies least 5 mb.
>
> I ported the application to gtk3 .

The update process can take months and even years for large deployments.

As a result critical activities must run, have a consistent look and
feel, and be validated across both Gtk2 and Gtk3.

> I built separate versions for xo gtk2 and gtk3 1.0 , x 1.5 , x 1.75 and one
> for Magalães. Each version contains the corrections necessary for proper
> operation as both gtk gtk3 for each particular machine.

Deployments often run several types of hardware.

As a result activities must run, have a consistent look and feel, and
be validated across each type of hardware in use by the deployment.
The becomes tricky as activities bypass the API provided by Sugar and
interact directly with low level libraries.

> All versions were tested in each of the aforementioned machines and all
> functioning properly. It only remains to make some very minor repairs on
> gtk3 versions .
>
> I wish that the maintainers of the repository with TamTam saw all this
> content for the purpose of seeing whether it is possible to unify into a
> single repository TamTamMini .

The challenge becomes what to do when the work like this does not fit
the priorities of the activity maintainer.

> Link: https://github.com/fdanesse/TamTamMini
>
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