[Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

[Walter Bender]

Pretty extreme but pretty cool. FWIW, the first 15 years or so of my
computing career was spent working at 640x480 :)

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> It seems the closest thing to an XO being released this year is
> http://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip
>
> I was happy to finally see a 'dynabook' design
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook :)
>
> I ordered one and asked their support line if anything special needs
> to be done to get Sugar working, and their response is below:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ben Young (Next Thing Co. Crew) <support at nextthing.co>
> Date: 5 May 2016 at 15:54
> Subject: [Next Thing Co.] Re: Sugar on an PocketCHIP?
>
> > Brilliant!! Please may I repost your reply on the sugar-devel mailing
> list? :)
>
> Absolutely! Fun fact, one of our devs had actually looked at using
> Sugar for our default environment for CHIP during early stages of
> development.
>
> It may also interest you to know that we've created our own app-like
> interface for adding new pieces of software, etc.
>
> -- Ben
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ben Young (Next Thing Co. Crew) <support at nextthing.co>
> Date: 5 May 2016 at 14:49
> Subject: [Next Thing Co.] Re: Sugar on an PocketCHIP?
> To: Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> There's some instructions on the Sugar Labs wiki
> [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian] for installing Sugar on Debian.
> However, the instructions point to using packages from the
> testing/stretch repository, and I only see it available in
> unstable/sid.
>
> I went through the process detailed under the "Using Sugar on Debian"
> section, with the exception of using 'sid' in place of 'stretch' in
> the first line. The install was ~400MB on top of our 600MB default
> install [this could be fairly easily trimmed down though] leaving
> ~2.6GB of free space.
>
> The installation went well, but there does seem to be a few small
> visual artifacts as a result of the 640x480 resolution. In the
> calculator for example, the equation entry field is smaller than the
> text being input into it.
>
> But in any case, the installation works, it just looks like the DE
> itself could use some TLC in regards to lower resolution
> compatibility. I would imagine in it's current state to be near
> unusable on a PocketCHIP.
>
> -- Ben
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