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

[Eli Heuer]

Awesome, I want one. Also, I would love to see a low-color raster version
of sugar at 128x128 :)

I used to design UI for Gameboy Advance games at 240x160. I like the
constraint. One thing that frustrates me with many activities on my XO-1 is
small, blurry, unreadable text. That just isn't a mistake designers can
make when working with low-res raster type because the Em square can't
really go below 8px.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:14 PM Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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