[Sugar-devel] ARM fork

[Ryan Cunningham]

I have forked your "sugarlabs/sugar" GitHub repository and made some changes necessary to enable Sugar to operate successfully on ARM tablets.

The most important change is the requirement of installation of the onBoard on-screen keyboard from Ubuntu; it is to be automatically invoked on entry into any text field (except if onBoard is already running) and is to be automatically killed on departure from that field; therefore, some activities may have to be ported specifically for this architecture.

The new repository branch is at <https://github.com/rcunning01/sugar/tree/arm>. It is public; however, only I have authorization to modify it.

I am writing this e-mail to query for any results from testing this on any Android tablet (this version does not work with Android phones) you might have or desire to purchase. However, such a test causes /all/ existing data on the tablet (including core OS data) to be erased, so deploy carefully. The software itself, however, is, and should continue to be, platform-independent.

The results should be as follows, if any errors are generated:

* Abnormal tracebacks from the Python interpreter (said tracebacks are accessed via the Log activity)
* Abnormal exception reports from ADB (the Android Debugger)
* Suggestions for correction

This version continues to use GTK+. You will need to modify the resulting Android OS image, adding to it cross-compilations (for the ARM platform) of the following applications and libraries:

* X11
* The Metacity window manager
* GTK+
* Pango
* GLib
* GObject-Introspection
* ATK
* GDK-Pixbuf
* PyGObject
* Python 2.7
* sugar-artwork
* sugar-toolkit-gtk3

Tell me if more are needed.

(This version does not have cell phone network support. The Terminal activity, when ported to ARM, should require that the destination device have sufficient access privileges [on Android, this is obtained by rooting], and, with this port, should be a separate download.)

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